Cat sleep

Folk legends, the cat due to Snooze, mistakenly entering the "twelve zodiac" opportunities. But one thing is truth, cats to determine sleepiness, sleep in general every day several times, each time not more than 1 hours, but every day of total sleep time is not short. Common to the owner of a cat a cat curled up on the sofa, bed, furniture or windowsill on top of lazily sleeping, claws and other parts of the body often involuntary, this is a normal phenomenon. Although the cat to sleep, but usually Old kitten and the cats sleep longer than the prime of life long, the weather was warmer than the cold season long sleep, to eat than when you are hungry after a long sleep; sleep at least at the time of estrus, the role of hormones makes the cat can not attend to rest, less sleep is understandable.
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Many number of cats to sleep, but wake up easily. This is because the cat sleep hours deep sleep and shallow sleep in two stages. Deep sleep, the muscle relaxant, on the environment in the reaction of bad sound. General about the continued 6-7 minutes, followed by 20-30 minutes of light sleep stage, at this time, cats sleep light, easily awakened by noise, because of the deep sleep cat sleep with the light are alternately, and therefore, the cat sleeping very alert.