cats don't, excactly, sleep, during the hours of the nights... if you ever perchance a lapse into insomnia... you'd notice... cat's snooze... during the day? they play catch-up "journalism" from the confines of: where Cain was banished to... Nod... sure... a cat will sleep, if you're also sleeping... but in the nocturnal hours, you're awake, and you have a cat handy, by your side? perhaps... just perhaps... but most of the time, they just: snooze... that's what cats are for... no leash, no muzzle... ***** where it feels like... eats whenever it feels like... it's hardly a ******* budgerigar worth a cage... or a dog... you ignore it, it ignores you, the ultimate canvas ****-test for experiencing free will... whenever needed to be translated and incubated by a human being... m'eh... m'eh back... pristine echo, sonar machine... me + cat = dolphin... i don't infringe on its freedom, it doesn't infringe on my freedom... perfect symbiosis, the closest symbiotic comparison would come, in the shape of a tapeworm.