If there are the Dog Days of Summer, can we also have the Cat Days of Winter?

Question

Before the dog days are on us, we should all reflect on what and just when the cat days actually are.

Correction, make that Cat Nights of Winter, a la paratech.

Answer 1

What about the platypus days of Spring? What about the elephant days of Autumn Aren't you forgetting about them?

Answer 2

Dog opposite of Cat hmmmm. Let me groom for a minute about that. What a purrrrrfect question for a dog lover but .... stretch .... the imagination a bit please. I have read somewhere that cats are genetically closer to humans, which by all cat sensibilities makes me shutter in fright and jump 10 feet straight up at the thought, so I will settle with the dog comparison for lack of better inequalities ( Only a human would be so presumptuous to think that anything could be equated or non-equated to cats ... perhaps I will look away and ignore this question a moment and it will go away ...) ... It didn't. Drat. I supppppose if I really have to I will answer this all to obvious question. Lets seeeeee, how does a human thinkkkk... Ahhhhh... almost gotcha ..... OK here is the answer: Have you ever seen a house cat walk on snow the first time? Pick another lesser beast to compare to the dog ( pick any one they are all lesser ) would ya! Now I can go take a nap on that nice warm monitor :)

Answer 3

The Cat Days of Winter? And Spring and Summer and Autumn. Cats rule, therefore all days belong to them. If you don't agree with me then you've never lived with a cat.

Answer 4

Sadly, no.

The term 'dog days' refers to the period in August when the dog star, Sirius, is behind or very near the Sun as seen from Earth. It was once believed that the brightness of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, was added to the brightness of the Sun, making August the hottest part of the year.

There is no analagous astronomical phenomenon which could be invoked to provide a 'cat nights'.

Answer 5

I think you need to stop typing questions for your cat.

Dogs can't sweat, so when they're hot, they get lethargic and pant as a way to cool off. They lay down, pant, and basically just lie there.

"Dog days" refers to lazy summer days where it's so hot, you want to just lie there and not do anything.

If cats did something unique during the winter, I'm sure we'd have cat days too.

Answer 6

well...I'd assume the dog days refer to when our behavior is similar to a dog's because of a hot day... IE lounging around spread out on the porch with a bowl...err glass of lemonade beside us. With that said, Cat Nights of Winter would be similar to a cat, curled up on the couch wrapped up in our fur..I mean blankets...staring at, and feeling a nice warm fire on our faces.

Answer 7

No. Dog days of summer are simply long drawn out days nearing the end of a hot summer and you're lazy.

Answer 8

Actually, If I recall correctly, 'Dog Days of Summer' is based in astronomy and refers to the constellation Canis Major. But I like where your head's at.
And I'm going to go answer your other question!

Edit: Thanks Met53 for putting Sirius (the Dog Star) I messed it up, and it would have bothered me until I figured it out. :)

Answer 9

no because dog pant in the summer heat and cats don't burrr in winter cold the do that all the time

Answer 10

Sirius may protest ...if we opted to grant Regulus this boon ...Dog and Cat stars respectively ...if we tilted the canocentric calender so ...It would make it hard to track when the next alluvial red mud flood is coming...

Answer 11

Cats know how to find the warmest spot in the house.