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Sleep Nap Snooze

How House Cats Sleep

12–16 hours a day

Book spread titled Cat-Nap Galore showing a striped cat asleep on a colorful graffiti wall.

From the spread “Champion Of The Catnap” in Sleep, Nap, Snooze.

House cats sleep twelve to sixteen hours a day, split into many short naps.

Most of that sleep is light dozing — ears still swivelling toward every sound.

Cats are crepuscular, which means they wake up for dawn and dusk.

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