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It's difficult to tell how old this dog is. One thing is for sure: He looks a lot older right now than he probably is. And we'll wager a guess that he probably feels quite a bit older than he is too. Kittens will have that effect on you. A kitten may be the cutest thing in the world, but it's also a handful. Have to deal with three kittens at once? Well, prepare to get frazzled. These kittens are starting to wake up, but Fido looks like he'd just as soon roll over and snooze for another hour or two. Imagine if you had three 4-year-olds, and it's 5 a.m. on Christmas morning, and all three kids are trying to get you out of bed. Now imagine that's every day. Sympathize with this poor pooch ...
Ella Mullins, Flickr By Dr. Patty Khuly, via Vetstreet It's no secret that cats are impressive sleepers. In fact, they typically get between 10 to 16 hours of shut-eye each day. That's more than most mammals--except for bats and opossums, who are known to slumber up to 20 hours per day. Biologists pin this feline affinity for sleep on two things: Their typically protein-rich diet, which requires long periods of rest to aid in proper digestion, and their naturally crepuscular (dawn and dusk) predatory pattern, which means cats tend to hunt twice daily and then rest in between. Although there's a lot of individual variation among domesticated felines, indoor cats are more likely to snooze ...
It's been less than one month since our "Catnaps" roundup, but the Web's appetite for sleeping-cat videos is as inexhaustible as these cats are exhausted. Too soon to revisit the subject? Never! 1. Falling Asleep Sitting Upright There are a few standard feline sleeping positions with which all cat owners will be familiar. There's the light resting "meatloaf" position, or the curled-up-in-a-ball position. But when you catch your cat in an unusual posture like this, you know they're nappin' hard. 2. More Feline Narcolepsy This is the spiritual sequel to the famous "Deadly Sleeping Cat." The cat fights sleep, fights sleep, fights sleep, and... ZONK! Why is this version better than the ...
People love looking at cat videos on the Internet. That's a major part of what we're about here at Paw Nation. Cat videos are so ubiquitous on the web, there's a seemingly infinite number of subsets you could choose of the larger set of cat videos in general. Today, we're going to focus on one of those subsets. These are the best sleeping-cat videos ever seen on Paw Nation (and one new one, for freshness). 1. Falling Asleep While Watching TV Look at how bored this kitten is watching TV. You just know he's about to doze off. He fakes us out with a sudden burst of energy, but then the inevitable happens, and he's out like a light. ...