After all, I was constantly working on that house, and Lou had slept through a hundred louder and more frightening noises. It's not as simple as this noise means this and that noise means that. A sound might mean one thing when a person's there, and another when there is no person around. In other words, if I'd been gutting an upstairs bedroom, the sound of plaster crashing to the floor might not have caused Louie to bat an eye. Louie was probably not as deeply asleep as it seemed.
Cats are very light sleepers.
They might seem to be fast asleep, but if you put an EEG on them, it turns out they're not asleep at all. And despite their reputation for sleeping long hours, Bradshaw says, cats probably don't sleep any more than we do. This is a typical behavior of carnivores. Minnie and the fuzz ball Minnie was an extremely vocal female with a range of verbal inflections and emotional tones worthy of a coloratura soprano, or maybe, more precisely, Lucille Ball. She answered every sound, gesture or facial expression I made with an appropriate yap, grumble, complaining yowl or affectionate murmur of her own.