I have 2 cats, and when they both sleep i always try to be as quiet as possible to sneak up to them and just observe them but everytime i get close they wake up and look at me with funny faces? Don't cats dream when they sleep? If so how can they hear me when they sleep in their dreams, i know i can't wake up when im dreaming.
2007-11-27 09:01:21 · 9 answers · asked by Emerald Swords 2 in Pets ➔ Cats
I've had a cat before that would sleep through anything. There were a few times i had to shake her to make sure she was alive. She did that all of her life (19 human years) She was sleeping outside when the neighbor dog killed her.I think if she had not been such a heavy sleeper, she'd still be alive. R.I.P. Fluffy (11-2-07)
2007-11-27 09:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats have very acute hearing and can most likely feel you walking. Cats used to be wild - look at the tiger, a distant cousin. Think of trying to sneak up on a tiger! If you really want to observe them, let them fall asleep near you, or on you. Cats do this alot. Or another method would be setting up a video camera near their favorite sleeping spots! Hope I helped!
2007-11-27 17:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats have better ears and noses than we do, so no matter how quiet you are, they can probably smell you. Also, if you've ever been around a "human" baby, they will sometimes react to the "disturbed air" when someone walks into the room. Cats always have to be "on the alert", when they're out in the wild, and this is in their genes. My cats are so comfortable with me and their surroundings, that I can CALL them and they'll stay asleep.......and they can all hear just fine! Cats are wonderful, fun, and weird! Have fun with yours.
2007-11-27 17:13:18 · answer #3 · answered by brutusmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But you aren't a cat.
I knew a woman once who fed the cats behind her Brooklyn store, and one night a male cat she had fed for at least a year came down to feed. And his intestines were dragging on the ground. He had been eviscerated in a cat fight. She grabbed him and got him to the vet who repaired him and neutered him. And she took him home. He was laying on her shop office floor, swathed in a body bandage, groggy from anesthetic and passed out.
The woman thought she'd get some food ready for when he woke up. So she opened a can of cat food, whereupon this post-surgical, anesthetized cat leaped to his feet and tore over to the newly-opened bowl of food and ate ravenously.
Because even though he was knocked out and anesthetized, he remained in survival mode. Food is survival. The movement of someone near you in a quiet room can be the movement of an enemy or just be someone you know up to something you're not sure of.
Cats are magnificent athletes and efficient, cruel hunters. But they are also solitary and prey, and so they are hardwired to be connected and aware.
I could approach my cat when he was sleeping and caress him and massage his paws. He expected this from me, and he didn't waken when I did it. But one time, I did startle him, and he went from totally relaxed and curled up in a fetal position, to a leap three feet into the air in which he spun to face me and land with a snarling sound -- vigilance which drained away immediately when he realized it was me. But it was impressive.
When you see the athleticism and vigilance to which they are hard-wired, and you learn the statistic that the life expectancy of an indoor cat is 15 years, but the life expectancy of an outdoor cat is 3 years, you understand what little guys like yours are up against in the badlands behind the brownstones, and what it takes just to make it to three years. That is when you understand why, despite the pain of stitches and incisions and the cloudiness of anesthesia, you must leap up and eat food right now that otherwise will be gone. Or why, in a hushed room, you waken and look with questioning, observant faces as a dear friend approaches on little cat feet.
2007-11-27 17:46:51 · answer #4 · answered by Mercy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think with cats it's a survival instinct. I've noticed my cats' ears twitch if I make a noise, even if they don't acknowledge me. I think they dream, we have a little deaf cat and I'll hear her making noises or even growling sometimes when she's asleep. She sleeps much more soundly than the other cats though.
2007-11-27 17:12:06 · answer #5 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats are prey to bigger animals and pray upon smaller animals. They always keep one ear open to listen for danger and possible food.
Mine stays curled up in a ball whenever I go to bed, but will leap up quickly if she hears a strange noise - I guess she is used to my sound. If I put my face up close, she opens one eye and watches me which is really cute.
2007-11-27 17:12:54 · answer #6 · answered by blackgrumpycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha.... both my dog and cat do that. it's instinct: if a dog or wolf or porkupine sneeks up on them, they want to be able to run away! try having the cat go to sleep on you or right next to you. or you could set up cameras.... ...kind of creepy though...
2007-11-27 17:25:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are aware of their surroundings because in the wild they are prey (usually) so they have to beware so they dont get hurt they are also very curios LOL
2007-11-27 17:58:37 · answer #8 · answered by ~Decode ♥ Me~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are predators, they have to be on the toes , so to speak, at all times otherwise they would no survive
2007-11-27 18:47:48 · answer #9 · answered by twylajane1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋