Maybe, with their sensitive ears, their sleep gets disturbed by whatever you're doing, even if you aren't being noisy, really. Cats sleep real light. Cats seem to be social with each other for play and with humans when they want something from us, be it attention or food. We've had pet rats who, like cats, are supposed to be noturnal creatures. But they get their hours all turned around to fit our schedule, just like the cats. We were only available for play in the daytime, so the rats would just sleep when we weren't around. They're very social critters. Ja ng. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "JACK CHILDERS" <jaxone1234@msn.com> Reply-To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BSChat] KITTIES Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:13:27 -0500 You know, people say cats are not very sociable, but I think mine are. I have noticed a strange thing about them. They only seem to be active when people are around. I will be gone somewhere and when I come in the cats are all asleep. Let me be in the house for a few minutes and they are up and chasing each other around. I have tried experiments with them, coming and going on purpose, and it always seems to be the same. I come in, they are asleep, get active after I have been there a few minutes, then I leave and when I come back they are all asleep again. It seems like they need human presence in order to get up and active. Jack Childers in OKC ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com