2 of my cats plopped down next to me feel asleep and are twitching in their sleep next to me Anybody else have pets do that? footnote it is raining and sometimes the rain triggers their twitch response while they sleep
My cat moves around all the time. She has four different nap places. One of them being on my lap or right next to me. I don't have much furniture right now either! Not even a bed, which she sometimes just naps on the covers on the floor. 😊
The twitching depends on how comfortable they are. Even to being too hot or cold can be annoying to them. Obviously sounds do it as well.
Where she finally decided to nap. This was the first time she napped here this morning! It's been there three days now.
Most animals move about a bit during sleep, both for ease and in dreams. We do!
The most important senses - sight, hearing and touch - do not close completely but turn themselves down to a sort of alarm setting. So so your cats are probably responding to the sound of the rain, especially if it starts after they had fallen asleep.
Cats are also among the animals that can move their outer ears to refine the direction of sound coming to them. The movement is short and rapid enough to appear to us as a twitch. It's also something we can't do: ear-waggling tricks are just facial-muscle tautening that does not affect the hearing.
(We close our eyes in sleep, but the lids are just translucent enough for a response to a sudden rise in light level, as when someone switches the lamp on.)
@Onestarlitnight i know i like they feel safe enough to lay next to me and check out. They both were feral at one point in their life Took a while to build trust with them and watching them feel safe while sleeping next to me as a reward for that
