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Can cats sleep too much?

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ScaredButUnavoidable · 06/10/2026 13:16

It feel like all my cat does is sleep!!

Obviously it’s getting colder outside so she’s indoors a lot more now…… but it genuinely does feel like all she does is sleep and eat!

She goes outside for short periods where she’ll wander around the garden chasing flies, and potter about the front of the house….. but then she’ll come back in and soon she back to sleep again.

We do have longer periods where she’s awake and interacting with us…… bursts of activity and evening Zoomies etc, but generally, she’s usually asleep.

She may go out all night for all I know (via the cat flap) but 95% of the time when I wake up in the morning, she’s in the same spot that I left her in when I went to bed 🤣

She’s currently been in the same spot on my bed for 5 hours…. She’ll have a big stretch every now and then, open her eyes to check I’m still there and make some cute cat noises at me….. but then it’s back to sleep.

Is this normal?!

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Georgiegirly · 13/10/2026 20:40

DeftGoldHedgehog · 10/10/2026 18:41

Attacking your ankles. Baffing you through the bannister rails. Knocking things off. Annoying dogs. Hours of surveillance.

Puking up furballs on your carpet, walking on your head when it's time to get up or be fed, like 6.00.am, "chattering" at the birds through the window, climbing up the curtains, doing a pooh in your veg patch.

chirrupybird · 13/10/2026 20:50

ScaredButUnavoidable · 07/10/2026 10:12

Do you have a link to this type of tracker?

I would love a tracker for my cat but I can only find ones that tell you where the cat is at any given point, not one that shows a history of their activity and where they’ve been.

Tractive gives live and history and a lot more, but it needs a subscription, very interesting though our little boy is a gad about when he's not sleeping. But I think he may be starting to slow down for the winter now.

CluelessAboutBiology · 13/10/2026 22:14

ChannelLightVessel · 06/10/2026 14:23

They’re conserving their energy … and one of these days we’ll find out what they’re conserving it for 😼

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