Do Kittens Sleep A Lot During Growth Spurts

I hadn t heard that about the growth spurt but yes he will be undergoing several growth spurts in the coming months.

Do kittens sleep a lot during growth spurts. Under three months should be thought of a helpless infant. A newborn kitten s daily routine is made up of sleeping 90 percent of the time that is almost 22 hours of shuteye. But kittens can sleep upwards of 21 hours in a day. We can t go by size to discover a kitten s age since kittens can vary so much in size by only six weeks.

Although you won t see much external activity in a puppy during this period all they want to do is eat and sleep there s a lot going on inside. But even at six months of age they still manage to spend about 16 to 20 hours a day dozing and dreaming away. Teens ages 14 through 17 need eight to 10 hours. Active and clumsy they engage in stalking and pouncing play with littermates learning hunting skills and other cat like behavior.

They can have growth spurts at different ages to thwart best guesses. She sleeps more than usual a lot of growth happens during sleep because secretions of human growth hormone peak throughout the night. To support healthy growth the national sleep foundation recommends that children ages six through 13 sleep for nine to 11 hours per night. As kittens mature beyond the newborn stage they will sleep less.