A new study out of Yale University that will certainly have ramifications for felines across the globe confirms that midnight is the perfect time for your cat to do 14 laps of your bedroom really, really fast, especially if you are asleep. “It’s important for a domestic cat to get a certain
  • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    5 months ago

    Fun fact : cats are corpuscular crepuscular. They are most active at dawn and dusk.

    Their high energy time is our low energy time.

    • tabEnglish
      32·
      5 months ago

      not to be that guy, but it’s crepuscular. My cat is also corpuscular (quite fat), but that’s on me.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      and we keep waking them up for cuddles during their nap time so they keep waking us up for zoomies during our nap time

      • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Cats are light sleepers and wake eachother up all the time. They don’t mind it as much as humans do. Though to be fair, the natural rythm of humans is to wake up once in the middle of the night and then continue sleeping.

        • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          cats know what is best for us, they are like “WAKE UP HUMAN IT IS ALMOST FUCKING 3 AM WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

          • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Yeah, that’s part of it. Since they are light sleepers and see you as clumsy kittens, then they expect you to be a light sleeper too. When you aren’t waking up they get worried you died lol

  • Illuminostro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    I’ve always wondered how an 8 pound animal can sound like an 1,800 pound animal when running their midnight laps.

  • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    banging the feeder with their hands

    Where I’m from, cats have paws. (Also, I opt out of AI images showing human-handed cats, don’t you dare)