How long do cats sleep a day?

I don't know exactly the amount, but I wish I could sleep as much as they do. A cat nap sounds good right now!

How Long Do Cats Sleep

It really depends on the age and condition of that cat.

A healthy, full grown cat should sleep about 14-16 hours a day. A full grown cat with an illness usually sleeps about 18 hours.

Almost all kittens sleep about 17-20 hours a day.

Newborn kittens are the ones who sleep for 23 hours a day.

My cat sleeps about 15 hours a day. He is 11 years old, fat, and extremely happy and healthy.

Cats sleep a lot and it is perfectly normal. In fact an average house cat will sleep the majority of its life away. It's one of their most favorite activities and they are really good at it. Most cats will sleep about 16 hours a day, and some even more than that. Whoever said it's a dog's life, obviously never spent time with a cat.

Cat sleeping patterns

The expression cat nap refers to the light sleeping pattern of most cats, most of the time. About three quarters of a cat's sleeping time is light sleep. The cat can awaken very quickly, and to an observer it looks like they are not fully asleep. Their eyelids may even be slightly open. Again this is genetically related and governed by evolution. A cat that can awaken quickly can more easily escape from predators or fight with possible intruders. The remaining 25 per cent of a cat's sleeping pattern is deep sleep. This is where they do their dreaming. Their paws and faces may twitch during this type of sleep.

Why do they need all that sleep?

Most wild cats use huge amounts of energy when they hunt and they need to conserve energy in between their hunting activity. When a cat (or any living thing for that matter) sleeps, it uses very little energy. The longer a cat sleeps, the more energy it conserves and the less often it has to hunt. Although today's domestic cats don't really need to hunt, their genes are still the same as before we took them into our homes as pets.

Kittens tend to sleep just as much or more than grown cats. This is primarily due to the fact that growth hormone is only released during sleep.

The actual diet of a cat is also a factor. Cats are carnivores. Eating meat makes you sleepy and anyone who's just had a huge steak can attest to this.

Cats look like they're sleeping all day but they are just waiting for you to leave the room so that they can do something else (cause trouble)without you bothering them about it (reprimanding). Or maybe that's just my cat.

They actually sleep around 16 hours a day. They don't do it all at once. They do it in small increments. That is where the term cat nap comes from.

I have 6 cats and they only sleep about 4-5 hours during the day and about the same at night

They sleep from 16-20 hours a day, It depends on the cat and its age. They take a lot of naps so that they are always well rested in case they suddenly need energy to escape from a predator.

Nah...its more like they sleep 16hours a day and then they are up the 8 hours that you are sleeping.

DOY... you're right!

My experience... they sleep about 2/3rs of the day...

for you in reolinda thats UP or 8 hours, sleeping for 16

there are 24 haurs in a DOY. (sorry - couldn't resist)

about 16 hours