SLEEP SLEEP SLEEPING CAT

We typically see our cat sleeps nearly all the time. And many people believe that it is a nocturnal animal that awakes and hunts in the nighttime. This believe seems to be both right and wrong. Cat needs many hours of sleep, range from 12-16 hours daily. It needs to digest food that it consumes and keeps energy for next hunting times. Although in natural, cat's usual prey like rats and small animals are nocturnal animals, cat also likes birds, fish and other animals that is typically non-nocturnal creatures. And cat does have a lot of activities during day light. Hence, we can not say that cat is typically nocturnal animal.
In its daily routine, it will hunt several times for food which are typicall small animals and has them several times a day. It will take a nap between that hinting-feeding time. But in domestic cats, we usually feed them regularly with two or three meals a day. So they have plenty time to plays and sleep rather than hunting. This has some negative effects to their health. Domestic cat tends to be overweighted if they do not have enough activities and overfeed. They don't have any exercises in contrast to hunting time in nature.
If we feed them with dry cat food, they might learn to have it small amount at a time and several times a day like in their natural life. After feeding, they will groom themselves and then find a quiet and safe place to sleep and when they awake, they will become fresh and ready to play with us. Domestic cat also adapts very well with our routine day-night time by take a long nap when it's owner is out to work and wake and play with us when we arrive home. It also sleep quite long in the night corresponded with our sleep time. If it does not adapt with these schedules, we would not see many of us let their beloved cat sleep on the same bed in the bedroom. :D

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Cat, Cat, Cat, Cat

Cat is our best friend.

Cat loves to sleep.

Cat loves to play.

Cat is cute.

Cat has kitten.

Cat is furry.

Cat purr happily.

Cat kneads us.

We like to pet the cat.

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Development of hearing in cat

When kitten is born, its ears is still closed as same as its eyes. The ears will be opened about 8th-14th day. Kitten can follow the sound by 7th day and start using this to exploring its world by 13th-16th day. Kitten can remember its sibling and owner sound by 3rd -4th week.


Cat is able to percept sound in wider frequency range than human. It percepts frequency from 20 Hz-100kHz. The ultrasonic frequency is the same range as bat ear ability. Cat has large ears to localize prey in the dark. It can detect object separates only 5 degree at 75% accuracy.