> > From: Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/17 Thu PM 11:22:38 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Sir Spencer > > Walter Hamler wrote: > > Yes, they do tend to sleep a lot, [...] > > I read somewhere years ago that the average house cat gets something > like twenty hours of sleep and napping each day. Ever since I read > that, every time I see a sleeping cat, I wake it up. Usually by going > over and petting it, but I wake it up. If I can't sleep twenty hours a > day, I'm sure going to do what I can to prevent them doing it. ;->
Standard behaviour for an obligate carnivore. You don't know when your next meal is going to come along so you use as little energy between feeds as possible. Then (in the case of Lions) you wake up and send the wife out hunting. Omnivores and herbivores can wander over to the nearest shrubbery for a bijou snackette. > > > [...] but at my age I find I am wanting to do the same!! > > I'm hoping the Buddhists are right about reincarnation and I get to come > back as the housecat of a good owner. ;-) > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
