If you have a cat, how much time do they spend sleeping/relaxing?

[Nolarbear]

How much time throughout the day do your cats spend sleeping or chilling out, as opposed to playing or going outside? And how old are they?

One year old. Out all night and sleeps most of the day. Plays with the dog in between. We're very rural.

Ours is about 14. Winter: He up around 5.30-6 am mooching indoors and nudging for breakfast. Then he eats, goes straight out for a wander and is back within 30 mins max and sleeps until about 3-4 pm, then a bot of fuss and food, a short mooch and he chills all evening with is, or asleep in his bed, until about 10 pm. Has some treats, goes out for 5 mins, back and snoozes. I think he goes out usually 3/4 am for a short time but is often asleep on our bed.

Summer: much the same but up a bit earlier and sleeps a bit outside in the day and out for an hour or two hunting at night.

I have an 11 year old female indoor cat. She spends most of the night asleep next to me and probably about 6 - 8 hours asleep or resting during the day. I used to think this was excessive until the vet told me that it's perfectly normal for a cat to spend 16 - 20 hours a day sleeping or dozing. Especially as they get older.

I have two two year olds. They are up at about 6am, get fed about 7.30 then they go off somewhere. The male will come back but the female stays out - though she dues t go too far as when I call her she's there in a couple minutes. Then snooze, then dinner fur them about 3.30 and they seem to go off again. Male is definitely more of a homebody, but I don't think the female is constantly running around outside - I think she just likes to sleep outside.
So say 60% sleep or lazying around, 40% actively chasing a leaf or trying to get some attention.

I suspect our house might be smaller than yours if you have 3 cat flaps (We have a 4 bed semi, but just one flap in the back door), and your cat more aloof!
With me working school hours only and DH WFH 2 days/wk, and cats who both seek out our company and are creatures of habit, particularly when it comes to where their preferred snooze spots are, knowing their routine and where to look for them is simple.

It’s not a mansion! Just have a futility room which goes out front and back, so one catflap either side and then a catflap into futility.

And I WFH 4 days pw and DH 2-3 days so we are about. He will jump up on my laptop whilst I’m working sometimes but then not stay long. A quick furr up trying his luck for some Dreamies etc. I’m generally busy working so don’t clock how long he’s about for though. His bowl is just in my eye line so he’ll sometimes sit there waiting for a top up.

I think he’s quite spontaneous, likes finding different spots to snooze. We always chuckle when anything new comes into the house as he’ll check it out straight away for bedworthiness 😂

I used to have a Futility Room.

Once she left home and took all her crap with her, it became useful again.

Only had madam (aged 9) since October so don't know what she'll be like in the summer, but she sleeps through the night on my bed, wakes around 6:30am and mithers me for breakfast. A quick mooch in the back garden then it's either snoozing on my desk for most of the day or snoozing in her tower by the window, with further demands for lunch if I'm there. Awake again for dinner at dusk, then asleep on my lap for the evening. Finally she'll go out for up to an hour just before bed. She likes just sitting in the garden.

That is almost exactly my 14yo boy's routine @twobluechickens but usually goes straight from my lap to bed in the evening because he's so exhausted

Ah, DCat1 would never be described as spontaneous, so perhaps that's the difference? She likes what she knows and knows what she likes to such an extent she still refuses to set foot in bedroom #4. We added it 8 years ago, building up from the existing utility room (I had to choose between that and a futility room - no space for both, unfortunately), but she's never accepted or trusted the 'new' addition.

One is 13 and I feel like she hardly ever moves. I occasionally see her in the kitchen for food but she spends a lot of time inside during the winter.

The other is 5 and I feel like he doesn't sleep much but he tends to hide somewhere when he's asleep. He's not very energetic, likes to potter around and is generally just a bit dull. His favourite thing to do is sit on people no matter how inconvenient or uncomfortable.

OP

I know this isn't the litter tray (where you will be welcome) but I think you should pay the kitty tax.

(The kitty tax is a photo of your cat)

Mine sleep on me at night, gets up in the middle of the night for the occasional zoomies.

At 6.30 if I'm not already awake she crouches on my shoulder to wake me up, I feed her and then she sits on my knee or the computer tower and sleeps on and off.

She will have a couple of trips out.

In summer I just leave my bedroom window open so she sleeps outside a lot.