For humans, sleep is essential for overall health. It allows us to recharge, consolidate memories, and repair the body. Scientists think that animals need sleep for similar purposes.
After all, they are particularly vulnerable while enjoying it, so there must be considerable advantages that outweigh the risks, right?
While there are many mysteries surrounding sleep that we still can’t solve, there’s one certainty that nobody dares to doubt. Animals look absolutely adorable when they close their eyes to get some well-deserved rest.
To drive this point home, we decided to expand on one of our earlier publications and put together a new collection of pictures showing the quirky and sweet side of sleep. From dogs and cats to geckos and owls, continue scrolling to meet the gang.
#1 Hugging In Their Sleep
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#2 The Street Is Very Hot, So The Salesperson Allows Kittens To Go Into The Store And Sleep On The Freezer
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#3 Where My Cat Sleeps When I’m Working From Home
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#4 Fox Sleeping On A Skylight
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#5 A Boy And His Cow Napping At The Goshen Fair
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#6 Snow Owls Sleep Like They Have Necked 10 Double Whiskeys And Just Reached Their Bed
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#7 Time For A Nap
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#8 Can We All Just Take A Moment To Appreciate The Sweetest Little Fox Sleeping On A Tree Stump In My Parents’ Backyard
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#9 Just Like A Human Relationship
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#10 Cats Sleeping On A Bench In Whidbey Island, WA. I Had To Stop And Take A Picture On My Walk
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#11 The Shelter Made A Rule That These Siblings Had To Be Adopted Together Because They Were Inseparable. They Sleep Like This Every Night
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#12 I Caught Him Sleeping Like This In His Cat Tree
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#13 This Is Chata, The Munchkin. This Is How He Sleeps
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#14 Moose Taking An Afternoon Nap In My Dad’s Garden
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#15 Sleeping Squirrels In Their Nest On A Window Ledge
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#16 My 19-Year-Old Cat Sleeping With Her Childhood Toy
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#17 One Of Our Ducks Rejected This Duckling And It Imprinted On Me Instead. It Hasn’t Let Me Out Of It’s Sight For The Two And A Half Days It’s Been Alive
It tired itself out playing in the grass earlier and stretched out in my hand for a little nap
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#18 This Is My Yoda
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#19 In Case You Need Something To Brighten Your Day, Here’s A Picture Of My Dog Sleeping
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#20 Two Months After I Got Him And Darwin Still Holds His Own Paws When He Sleeps
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#21 Everybody’s Got These Great Pictures Of Their People Sleeping With Their Pets And I’m Over Here Stuck With This Mess
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#22 This Is How They Sleep! Nugget (The Sausage Dog) Makes Sure Of It
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#23 Funny Hedgehog Sleeping
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#24 All Tucked In
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#25 The Way My Cat Sleeps
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#26 My Little Guy Likes Sleeping In His Succulent
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#27 My Boy Eddie Sleeping
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#28 This Hood Is Good
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#29 Smol Criminal Taking A Nap
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#30 These Cats Napping Aligned On Stairs
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#31 How My New Kitten Likes To Sleep When I Am Using My Laptop
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#32 He Has The Weirdest Sleeping Positions
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#33 Blep In Her Sleep
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#34 In Under A Month She Went From Being Scared Of Everyone, To Sleeping With A Smile On Her Face Cuddling. Please Rescue
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#35 Excuse Me, Miss, May I Nap In Your Nest For A Bit? A Little Bird Followed Me From My Car
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#36 This Is My Black Cat Kaia. She Started To Sleep Like This After Her Belly Got Badly Injured In A Car Accident. So Proud That She Recovered
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#37 Little Puppers Doing A Synchronized Sleep
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#38 Circle Of Meow
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#39 So I Caught My Cat Sleeping In This Position
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#40 This Is My Dog’s Favorite Toy. He Refuses To Chew On It And He Sleeps With It Every Night
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#41 This Baby Duck Is Sleeping, So People Who Are Also Going To Sleep Good Night And Dream About Ducks
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#42 The Way She Sleeps
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#43 He Sleeps
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#44 My Mother Just Sent Me This Picture. She Just Woke Up And Had This Fella Sleeping Over Her Bed
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#45 Foster Kitten Likes To Sleep In My Hand. I Have No Objections
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#46 My Girlfriend Is Dog-Sitting With A Friend’s Dog. This Is How He Naps Apparently
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#47 Found This Little Guy At The Bottom Of Our Garden. He Was In Bad Shape But He’s Improving. The Hard Work Of Forming A Bond With Him Is Paying Off
This is him coming up to me today and sleeping next to me
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#48 My Girlfriend’s Cat Sleeping On Top Of The Brooms In Her Family’s Shop
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#49 Didn’t See Him At Lunchtime, So Looked Around And Found Him Sleeping In The Front Yard
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#50 My Friend’s Sleeping Cat
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