Cats Sleeping: Submit Your Own! (PHOTOS)

There's a reason it's called a "cat nap". If dogs are the unplug-and-recharge professionals, then cats are the kings and queens of sleep.

According to the National Sleep Foundation's most recent annual Sleep in America poll, 43 percent of Americans ages 13 to 64 say they rarely or never get a good night's sleep during the week. Not surprising, then, when the average poll participant reported getting only six hours and 55 minutes of sleep a night!

This kind of sleep deprivation can catch up with you when your circadian rhythms naturally dip in the middle of the afternoon, leaving many the desk-jockey to wonder if it's possible to nap at work without getting canned.

Your cat may be onto something. In fact, our feline friends sleep more than most other mammals -- up to 16 hours a day, according to vetstreet.com. So take a cue and sleep early and often and in any and every sun-soaked corner you can find. And not just because it's cozy and warm: The health benefits of sleep include healthy weight maintenance, improved memory, heightened mood and more.

We hope these photos of resting felines will inspire you to catch a little extra shuteye of your own.

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• Lizzy

  --Simon Heseltine, Director - SEO, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

• Sparta

  She enjoyed her little coat so much it put her right to sleep! --Paige Harmes, Weekend Overnight Shift Supervisor, The Huffington Post Media Group

• Cary Grant

  --Lucy Blodgett, Assistant Editor, The Huffington Post Los Angeles

• Ruca

  --Jordan Schultz, Sports Columnist, The Huffington Post

• Daxter Bailey

  Dax for short sleeping on his favorite canine. --Paige Harmes, Weekend Overnight Shift Supervisor, The Huffington Post Media Group

• Clara

  --Alicia Maye, Executive Assistant at AOL Huffington Post Media Group

• Jasmine

  This is Jasmine, enjoying a level of relaxation humans can only aspire to. --Laura Paull, Supervising Editor for Citizen Journalism / Off the Bus 2012, The Huffington Post

• Rogue

  She is a mutant cat with extra toes on her paws, so we named her after the "X-Men" character! --Liz Perle, Editor, The Huffington Post High School

• Pickles

  --Sarah Klein, Associate Editor, Healthy Living, The Huffington Post

• Dany, Georgina and Arya

  --Jade Walker, Overnight Editor, The Huffington Post

• Doozer Monkey and Figgy Monster

  --Jennifer Spugnardi, Editing And Quality Manager, Seed, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

• Kashi

  --Anna Brand, Homepage Editor, Aol.com, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

• Felix

  --Jordan Schultz, Sports Columnist, The Huffington Post

• Ann

  This is Ann (mostly) asleep. --Robb Monn, Systems Architect, The Huffington Post

• Mordecai

  --Kerstin Picht Shamberg, Social Media Editor, The Huffington Post Media Group

• Mr. Nixon

  --David Lohr, Senior Crime Reporter, The Huffington Post

• Charlie

  Sleeping sitting up. --Jennifer Bendery, Political Reporter, The Huffington Post

• Ellsworth

  --Daniela Perdomo, Social Impact Business Development, The Huffington Post Media Group

• Orange

  Router love. --Shay Brog, AOL

• Being springy. --Shay Brog, AOL

• George And Gracie

  Sleeping in the morning sun. --Christy Harris, CIPP, AOL Global Privacy

• Gracie

  Since Gracie's awake in the picture before, here she is asleep on my lap on the couch. --Christy Harris, CIPP, AOL Global Privacy

• Angel

  --Carla Lohr

• Keegan

  --Matt Stone, Phoenix, AZ

• Waffles

  --Heather and Jeff Irvine, Brooklyn, NY

• Orange Blossom

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kitty127"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kitty127">kitty127</a>:<br />He likes to sleep in the sun.

• Sammy

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JoMaz"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JoMaz">JoMaz</a>:<br />So comfy. I love my blanket!

• Lilo

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/aubrey_jacobs"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/yahoo_profile_img/2307785.png" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/aubrey_jacobs">aubrey jacobs</a>:<br />I came home from work one day to find her sitting on my porch. She was skin and bones, so I took her to the vet and had her checked for a chip. The Vet said that if she had been out for one more week she would have most likely starved to death. I decided to take her in. She has brought so much joy to my household, a true little blessing.

• Donovan and Rocky

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/armoangel"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/armoangel">armoangel</a>:<br />You would never know they were brothers who chase each other when they sleep like this ;)

• Savanna

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/erndut"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/erndut">erndut</a>:<br />Just catching a few zzzzzzzzzzzz!

• Lil Vernon

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/reesagirl"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/reesagirl">reesagirl</a>:<br />Lil Vernon loving the Sun.

• Cuddling Kitties

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Paula_Krapf"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/759780-tiny.png?20091007130738" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Paula_Krapf">Paula Krapf</a>:<br />A rare moment of tranquility for Angus and Foo.

• Eckhart Tollecat

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/getbacktowork"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/getbacktowork">getbacktowork</a>:<br />Eckhart Tollecat keeps us in the moment.

• Nap With Sherlock

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jeffrey_Felburg"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://graph.facebook.com/100000374211612/picture?type=square" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jeffrey_Felburg">Jeffrey Felburg</a>:<br />

• Bleve with his arm around Chloe Claire...

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kimberly_I_Smith"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://graph.facebook.com/100002245076664/picture?type=square" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kimberly_I_Smith">Kimberly I Smith</a>:<br />

• Braxton

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/dixied22"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/dixied22">dixied22</a>:<br />He likes mommy to hold him like a baby!

• Best Friends

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/juliananicole12"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/juliananicole12">juliananicole12</a>:<br />Lola's favorite sleeping spot

• Eliza and GusGus

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/mlubinteigen"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/mlubinteigen">mlubinteigen</a>:<br />Yin and Yang.

• Serafina and Vyvyan settle down, finally

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/mztupelo"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/2436462-tiny.png?20111201195721" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/mztupelo">mztupelo</a>:<br />

• Kevin and Burt

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kkkkat"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/1491636-tiny.png?20110330213509" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kkkkat">kkkkat</a>:<br />Kevin and his dog brother enjoying each other's napping company.

• Napping with Dad.

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kkkkat"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/1491636-tiny.png?20110330213509" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kkkkat">kkkkat</a>:<br />

• Munchie

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/rax19"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/rax19">rax19</a>:<br />This is our fuzzface. She loves to sleep anywhere and everywhere. And often covers her eyes. I should get her one of those eye masks. We can have a matching set!

• Smokey & Steve

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jessica_Blau"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://graph.facebook.com/1112978254/picture?type=square" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Jessica_Blau">Jessica Blau</a>:<br />Smokey & Kitty

• Strangely Brown

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ZonieBoy"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ZonieBoy">ZonieBoy</a>:<br />Strangely Brown

• Hercules

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ZonieBoy"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ZonieBoy">ZonieBoy</a>:<br />Hercules

• McMacky

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/motive440"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/motive440">motive440</a>:<br />Anywhere. Simply anywhere.

• CopyCats

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/denadena"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/denadena">denadena</a>:<br />Zelda & Krishna - "The Chums" Rescued Sphynx's

• Bandit

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/bharrod11"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/bharrod11">bharrod11</a>:<br />Bandit likes to sleep in the sink, patiently waiting for some fresh faucet water

• Mr. Kai, fast asleep

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/klspitzner"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/klspitzner">klspitzner</a>:<br />

• Savannah

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Sebastion"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/2288434-tiny.png?20111017172900" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Sebastion">Sebastion</a>:<br />Anywhere she can be belly up!

• FANG!

  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/electronaut"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/electronaut">electronaut</a>:<br />Fang sleeps all day and all night, but he takes occasional breaks to eat, snuggle, bug, and gallop around the house.

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[ChaiKat]

01:36 PM on 02/28/2012

The names are just as much fun as the pictures!

[SavannahD]

10:36 AM on 02/24/2012

Is this too cool for cats?http://ning.it/yuwljT

[Ray Butt]

06:27 PM on 02/09/2012

OMGZ! Teh CuTeness!!

I think my head just exploded.

[jl4141]

04:25 PM on 02/09/2012

My cats don't sleep. Maybe I should stop pouring Mountain Dew and Red Bull in their water bowl.

[dvncmdy]

12:15 PM on 02/08/2012

I ahd a cat named Nixon once. They are all adorable.

[Skyseeker1]

07:29 PM on 02/07/2012

Makes my heart smile to see all the healthy happy cat stories. If there is a heaven, than there certainly must be a very special place in it for those that care for animals.

Your all ARE responsibly having your pets spayed and neutered, are't you?

[wmechaneer]

07:16 PM on 02/07/2012

Dogs teach us to be bosses, while cats teach us to be people.

[AnthropologistAmongApes]

02:02 PM on 02/08/2012

Dogs teach us about attending to the needs of others.

[wmechaneer]

12:29 AM on 02/09/2012

Whipping a dog simply shows him who's "Alpha," while whipping a cat shows it you cannot be trusted. Cats are more "people" than slavish dogs are, and that's why they teach us to be people as well. Mutual respect isn't in a dog's mind or lexicon. For them it's about "applied power."

[LiveFromNY]

03:53 PM on 02/09/2012

Why are you even thinking this way? Both cats and dogs deserve to be loved for their own special qualities. One is not "better" than the other. Do you categorize people this way too?

[wmechaneer]

04:58 PM on 02/10/2012

This is called and "observation." You've turned it into an "agenda." Why?

[vlntyn]

07:12 PM on 02/07/2012

this was really cute!

just wish some people would stick to one picture of their cat - with so many submissions it was a bit tedious to see the same cat numerous times albeit in different positions, but your favorite one would have been enough.

[annismobile]

07:07 PM on 02/07/2012

Sleeping or awake, gotta love our feline friends

[npnozie]

07:06 PM on 02/07/2012

I love cats they are perfect pets. I have one question.Did you have a hard time waching the pictures. I had one hell of a time I tried it may be 10 times I gave up they keep throwing dog
pictures onthescreen and it would miss up the comp and I could not watch anymore and I had to turn it of. Wonder why they did that? HHHOM

[jimd8575]

07:02 PM on 02/07/2012

If sleeping is good for longevity my son in law should live forever! God help us all...

[Justgo4it]

06:59 PM on 02/07/2012

I absolutely love candy apple tabby's, like the one on the radiator, I had one for 19 years, we had to put the old guy down because he stopped drinking, eating, and had a stroke, I miss my big boy K.C. every day. When you have one around so long, its like you've lost a family members. And the grieving process is just as bad.

[Marian Bailey]

08:25 PM on 02/07/2012

I love cats. My first one was named "Cat" After she crossed the rainbow bridge, I got another and named him "A C" which the long version of his name was "Another Cat" Then I got my 3rd cat and her name, "Violet", came with her from the shelter and we never chaanged it. She's almost 10 now. How the years fly when you have beloved pets.
Faved you. Already fanned.

[Justgo4it]

10:28 AM on 02/08/2012

my first was named Buddy, someone gave him to me, told the person I didn't like cats, to him to my apartment and realized why she gave him to me, I was alone and needed someone. K.C I got because I thought my Bud would get lonely seeing I had gotten a full time job. Buddy passed 4 years after getting him. I was like he came when I needed him and left when he thought I was ok. K.C. stands for Kitty Cat, I had no idea what to name him. Had a black tuxedo I named J.D. Jack of Diamonds. seeing he had that great tux and a diamond white spot on his forehead. the others I have now all have regular animal type names. See those guys were so special and once they were gone so were the initial names as well.

[Justgo4it]

10:29 AM on 02/08/2012

"took, no "to".

[Larsami1]

06:22 PM on 02/07/2012

Your cat may be onto something.



I just hope that they don't tell us one day that chasing mice is good for us also. Lol.

[manapua512k]

06:44 PM on 02/07/2012

Humans have already adopted much of animal behavior. As with cats and mice; I’m sure you’ve heard of the idiom, “While the cat’s away, the mouse will play”.

[GOODDOC1]

07:22 PM on 02/07/2012

Think of the exercise!

[Larsami1]

07:28 PM on 02/07/2012

You're right. But I much prefer InShape. I think they would lock me up if I said I get my exercise by chasing mice. Lol.

[66readerwriter]

05:59 PM on 02/07/2012

I wish one of my cats would take more naps. She gets up with me and goes to bed with me. And the rest of the time she's into everything. It's like having a perpetual toddler about the house.

[Larsami1]

06:10 PM on 02/07/2012

Yeah they're part of the family. I would love it if they could talk. Then again, maybe not. With them getting into everything and sleeping with us, they might want to do everything else with us. I suppose if people take their dogs with them, why not cats? Lol.

[Justgo4it]

07:03 PM on 02/07/2012

got one of thoses myself. she's so active she never puts weight on, eats like a pig too.