Cats photographed in the most awkward imaginable sleeping positions

If it fits, it sleeps. These unorthodox sleep spots are fur from usual, but for these moggies, they’re the purrfect, paw-some spot for a cat nap. SEE THE PICTURES

It’s a question every moggy owner asks at some point: Why on earth does the cat want to sleep there?

Mount Waverley mog Merlin has a most unusual favourite sleeping spot — his kitty litter tray.

“He never uses it for its designated purpose!” says his owner, John Preston.

“He uses the garden for a loo, usually where we don’t want him to.”

Merlin the cat sleeps in his litter tray.

Carlton sleeps in a basket on top of the laundry cupboards.

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And when it comes to bizarre sleeping positions, Carlton from Glen Waverley has reached new heights.

The British shorthair sleeps in a tiny basket on top of the laundry cupboards.

Owner Dale McKinnon says the basket was a gift and originally had fruit in it, and she put it up there out of the way.

“One day I couldn’t find Carlton and was looking everywhere for him,” she says.

“I don’t know what made me look up but there he was in the basket. That was nine years ago and he still clambers up there.

“It is quite a feat for him to get up there and when he does he squashes himself into the basket.”

Splotch has a cat-nap outside in a planter pot.

Whiskey likes to sleep in a flower pot.

And Splotch, from Healesville, sleeps outside in a planter pot.

“My daughter Amy calls it our bowl of ‘pot-purr-ee’,” says Splotch’s owner, Robert.

Marg O’Neill, from Colac, says her cat Whiskey also reckons a flower pot makes the perfect outdoor bed.

Meanwhile, John Acott, of Sandringham, says his cat, Pepe, finds the bathroom basin a cool place to while away the hours on stinking hot days.

Pepe cools off in the bathroom basin.

Lucy relaxes in a dried-up water fountain.

Flinty the cat sleeps in a doll's cradle.

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With the drought, Heidi Street, of Wattle Glen, has let her fountain dry up — but Lucy has found another use for it.

And Sue Millar, from Highton, says her grandchildren’s cat, Flinty, in Numurkah, has a most unusual favourite spot for a snooze — a doll’s cradle.

“He also has been taught to sit on a small chair to receive a treat, and offers a high five as a thank you!” Sue says.

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