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Hello I'm Simon, welcome to Simon's Cat Logic, we'll be finding out from a cat expert
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why cats behave the way they do. Today we're going to have a look at favourite sleeping places.
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Altogether I've had six cats in my life and it amazes me how individual
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each one is, even down to things like their favourite sleeping places.
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My second cat Chloe's used to love the airing cupboard and would always find a way of sneaking in
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there and going up to the second shelf and laying on the soft towels and the warm.
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She loved it in there.
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[Where do cats like to sleep?]
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Cats sleep or rest intermittently throughout the day.
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Cats like to sleep somewhere safe, usually up high.
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They're also really fond of somewhere dark and warm.
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You can find all sorts of hiding places and nice places for them to sleep
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such as igloo beds, or those radiator beds, or even something as
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simple as a cardboard box with a nice blanket inside.
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Now you may think to yourself..
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why is my cat sleeping in this random place on the floor, especially when I bought
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this really expensive cat bed, but if you follow the line of the hot-water pipes
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in your house you may well find that your cat sleeping just above them and
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keeping nice and toasty.
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[Let Sleeping Cats Lie] Now I know cats are really cute when they're fast asleep, but please resist the
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temptation to wake them up.
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Cats sleep for 16 hours or more a day and this will be even more in kittens or elderly cats.
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You may find that cats actually steal your seat as soon as you get up.
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It's actually because it's nice and warm
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because you've just been sitting there, but also because it's off the floor and it
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smells of the owner as well.
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[Why do cats love laundry?]
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All laundry provides a comfortable place for cats to sleep.
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Now some cats prefer dirty laundry
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just because it smells familiar to them and it has a scent of the owner on it.
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Whereas other cats prefer clean laundry and this can be more because if it's
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been freshly tumble dry this could be nice and warm. A safe place to sleep.
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Whether it's a box
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the laundry pile or even a suitcase, cats tend to rotate round when their sleeping
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place which is the normal behaviour.
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We think this is a throw back to African Wildcat behaviour where they want to
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regularly change their sleeping place to avoid a build up of external parasites.
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[Cats that sleep together...]
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Many owners think that if their cats sleep together on the bed that they must be friends
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this very much depends on how the cats are sleeping together
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for example if the cats are sleeping together with interlocking paws and
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maybe they're grooming each other and rubbing against each other
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I think it's safe to say they're probably friends or in the same social group.
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However, if you go back and have a look at your cats and you see that actually
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they are carefully spaced out on the bed
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maybe they're in a crouched position and they're very carefully just avoiding eye
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contact with the other cats
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it may be that they're actually tolerating each other or just not in the same
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social group but there for the valued resource of the owners bed.
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[Do cats dream?]
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It is thought that cats may actually have dreams because they do have what's called REM
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sleep or rapid eye movement sleep
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I think many owners like to think when their cats are twitching and moving their paws
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that perhaps they're chasing squirrels and things outside, but unfortunately at
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this point in time we don't really know what they're dreaming about.
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[Simon's Real Cats - Sleeping Places]
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Hugh always makes me smile because his favourite
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sleeping place is this big compost bin outside my back garden and it's just in
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the right place for it catches all that afternoon sunlight and he's always there
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snuggled on top of it, because he's black furred he absorbs all the heat.
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Teddy's favourite sleeping place is actually at the end of the garden in an old run-down polytunnel
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which is all overgrown with stingers and brambles and things, but there is a little hole under the door
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Jess's favourite sleeping place is quite sweet she likes sleep next to my pillow
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here at night and I have to make a space for her on my bed by pulling my pillows up.
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My cat Maisy is ginormous
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and her favourite stopping place is at the bottom of my bed
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because she's so big he basically sprawls out and dominates the entire area.
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That's the great thing about cats they're all so individual. My cats have all got their own
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favourite sleeping places and I'm sure yours do too.