"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

October 1, 2016 3:58 PM

20 Cats That Fell Asleep and Look Ridiculous — that is all.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (51 comments total)

Anesthetized, or asleep? I've never seen a cat sleep like that. (Love the shot from below through the glass.)
posted by heyho at 4:02 PM on October 1, 2016 [4 favorites]

For most of them, it's all about the tongue sticking out, which is why this pup has gone semi-viral.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:14 PM on October 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

These kind of make me uncomfortable/sad/concerned (minus the shot of the view from below of the kitty on the glass table, that's pretty cute).
posted by Hermione Granger at 4:14 PM on October 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

Really, Hermione? Why? I've seen cats fall asleep like that many times, esp if they drift off mid-groom.
posted by smoke at 4:20 PM on October 1, 2016 [9 favorites]

That's some quality blep you've got there.
posted by MsMolly at 4:26 PM on October 1, 2016 [4 favorites]

I love that there's a word for it!
posted by heyho at 4:28 PM on October 1, 2016

I think what's unnerving me is the way all the kitties' eyes look? I am a big fan of the blep, though.
posted by Hermione Granger at 4:36 PM on October 1, 2016

OMG SERIOUS LOL MOMENT :D
posted by soakimbo at 4:43 PM on October 1, 2016

Sometimes my Trilby sleeps with his eyes just slightly open and I can see his eyeballs oscillating and the effect is such that it makes me wonder if I should call in a exorcist.
posted by orange swan at 4:43 PM on October 1, 2016 [10 favorites]

Remember: they domesticated themselves.

They wanted this.
posted by Spiced Out Calvin Coolidge at 4:45 PM on October 1, 2016 [52 favorites]

They will find out that you took a silly picture of them.

They will bide their time.

They will shit in your shoes when you're not looking.
posted by indubitable at 4:50 PM on October 1, 2016 [6 favorites]

They wanted this.

"So, Mr. Mooski, you'll be fed, housed, cleaned up after and given as much affection as you desire, should you find you actually desire it, for which you will agree to be photographed looking, shall we say, silly."

"Right, where do I sign?"
posted by Mooski at 4:50 PM on October 1, 2016 [13 favorites]

I agree that their eyes look a little weird in some of those shots but I think they're just showing us their third eyelid. All the cats who've had me in their life (many!) have fallen asleep with it showing at some point or another and I'm firmly convinced they do it just to gross us out.
posted by _Mona_ at 5:00 PM on October 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

My Siamese sleeps with his eyes open so I can confirm that cats do sleep like this, all the TIME.
posted by fiercekitten at 5:13 PM on October 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

These kind of make me uncomfortable/sad/concerned (minus the shot of the view from below of the kitty on the glass table, that's pretty cute).

I kind of take for granted that cats who go to sleep like this are probably dealing with some kind of nasal congestion -- when your teeth are that sharp, sticking your tongue out is a good way of making sure you don't close your mouth without knowing about it.
posted by jamjam at 5:20 PM on October 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

/would totally photograph cat if he fell asleep like this.

/though he'd probably sense it and move. He's uncanny like that.
posted by Artw at 5:21 PM on October 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

I just see a page of cats who totally meant to fall asleep like that.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 5:36 PM on October 1, 2016 [7 favorites]

20 Cats That Fell Asleep And Look Ridiculous

Clicked in gidddy exepectation of a single pic featuring an enormous pile of ridiculous sleeping cats. Does not do what it says on tin. Am disappoint.
posted by The Bellman at 5:37 PM on October 1, 2016 [11 favorites]

Cat pic MeFi is serious business.
posted by Artw at 5:47 PM on October 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

Cat pic MeFi is serious business.

A plate of bleps will not discuss itself.
posted by Celsius1414 at 6:02 PM on October 1, 2016 [10 favorites]

Silly kittehs! So much blep!

Also am delighted to find another cat named Trilby in the world, hi orange swan!
posted by angeline at 6:09 PM on October 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

We did it everybody. Everybody go home, it’s all fine now.
posted by Going To Maine at 6:13 PM on October 1, 2016

They will find out that you took a silly picture of them.
They will bide their time.
They will shit in your shoes when you're not looking.

Alternatively:
They will not find out that you took a silly picture of them.
They will continue to sleep a lot.
They will shit in your shoes when you're not looking.

At least you get a picture out of the first scenario...
posted by uosuaq at 6:20 PM on October 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

"It's Bowman's last message, sir."

MY GOD IT'S FULL OF CATS
posted by Bringer Tom at 6:22 PM on October 1, 2016 [5 favorites]

Ooh, I have one of those! Say good-night, Gatsby.
posted by Ruki at 6:56 PM on October 1, 2016 [8 favorites]

Hell, my cat has fallen asleep mid-antic. One time he'd clambered into the gap between the couch and bookcase and braced himself on the bookcase, waiting to fall down on his sister when she wandered by. Only he dozed off and fell asleep like that.
posted by Ghostride The Whip at 7:02 PM on October 1, 2016 [15 favorites]

If I had a nickel for every time I've told some fool cat, "You can't possibly be comfortable that way," I could afford one of those fancy electric self-cleaning litter boxes.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:27 PM on October 1, 2016 [9 favorites]

Oh come on, is no one going to take this golden opportunity to post pictures of your own cats sleeping in ridiculous ways? Here's Oscar with an awkwardly positioned paw and some teeth sticking out.
posted by ActionPopulated at 9:42 PM on October 1, 2016 [7 favorites]

Trilby doesn't much go in for too many awkward sleeping positions, but she does love to sleep under blankets like the human she thinks she is.
posted by angeline at 10:11 PM on October 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

Slightly less unnerving: 19 Cats Caught Sitting Like Humans
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:04 PM on October 1, 2016 [4 favorites]

They all look indignant, like how dare you photograph me as I lick my crotchal region.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:06 PM on October 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

Mary is a graceful sleeper (B&SW: dog)*


*Bait & Switch Warning
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:20 PM on October 1, 2016 [11 favorites]

My dearly missed moggy used to sleep in very similar poses, complete with open eyes. That third eyelid really amps the creepy factor up before you realised he was snoring away.
posted by halcyonday at 12:31 AM on October 2, 2016

19 Cats Caught Sitting Like Humans


I can see their twopotatoes and their pants!

is no one going to take this golden opportunity to post pictures of your own cats sleeping in ridiculous ways?
MOAR. MOAR MOAR MOAR.





SO MAJESTIC

I miss them.
posted by louche mustachio at 2:29 AM on October 2, 2016 [4 favorites]

Okay here's my sleeping cat pic.
posted by Too-Ticky at 2:38 AM on October 2, 2016 [4 favorites]

Oh and I also happen to have some pretty good blep!
posted by Too-Ticky at 2:48 AM on October 2, 2016 [3 favorites]

This is the quality content I came here to see.
posted by louche mustachio at 3:33 AM on October 2, 2016 [5 favorites]

Best of web.
posted by infini at 5:04 AM on October 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

That third eyelid really amps the creepy factor up before you realised he was snoring away.

We call it "zombie eyes," because it is so blank and unsettling.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:52 AM on October 2, 2016

They will shit in your shoes when you're not looking.

Fat Freddy's Cat has a more fiendish plan in mind.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:30 AM on October 2, 2016 [2 favorites]

I've seen more life-like ex-cats.
posted by blue_beetle at 7:35 AM on October 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

Scrambles likes to sleep in some very weird positions:

Sometimes he prefers no neck support

Sometimes he likes his face in a three-ring binder
or a wall

Or on the arm of a chair

But mostly, he likes to streeetch
posted by LizBoBiz at 10:32 AM on October 2, 2016 [3 favorites]

Oh goodie. I always worry there's not enough shit about cats on the interwebs.
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 12:09 PM on October 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

Irwin Allen loved cats!

come now, do twist.
posted by clavdivs at 12:12 PM on October 2, 2016

Scrambles is such a great cat name, and the pictures indicate he's also a great cat!
posted by JHarris at 5:35 PM on October 2, 2016

Thanks, JHarris. We got the name from a South Park episode, the "cheesing" one where all cats become illegal. We heard the name and loved it.

And he is a great cat!
posted by LizBoBiz at 5:40 AM on October 3, 2016

Here's Blu with some more third-eyelid bait'n'switch.
posted by A Robot Ninja at 6:47 AM on October 3, 2016 [1 favorite]

How about, uh... Scrambles. Scrambles the Death Dealer.
posted by indubitable at 4:28 PM on October 3, 2016 [1 favorite]

That is indubitably awesome
posted by LizBoBiz at 7:41 PM on October 3, 2016

I'm late to this, but in case there are other people catching up, here's my sleepy kitty. He was about 5-6 months old I think. My other cat feels about the same way I do about waking up.
posted by ashirys at 7:48 AM on October 4, 2016 [4 favorites]

Trilby in her clever disguise: Feline Pretzel. Toebeaaaaaaans.
posted by angeline at 2:31 PM on October 4, 2016 [2 favorites]