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* The titular blue feline from ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches''.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Garfield is one of the most iconic examples. He's a lazy FatCat that prefers to sleep and eat over anything else.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Played with. Most characters are anything ''but'' lazy because being lazy means you're unlikely to survive in the wild. However, this trope does apply to pet cats (or "kittypets" as they're called). Most kittypets are timid and cowardly. Clan cats see them as lazy oafs and they're prone to [[FatCat being a little plump]]. It doesn't help that many are [[LazyNeuteredPet neutered]], which makes them even more lazy.

Related to FatCat.

->'''Garfield''': All I ever do is eat and sleep, eat and sleep, eat and sleep.
->'''Garfield''': There must be more to a cat's life than that.
->'''Garfield''': But I hope not.
-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Jon}}''

* Big the Cat from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' is a very fat cat who spends most of his time fishing, rarely ever partaking in the series' adventures. Whenever he does, it's usually to find his pet frog, Froggy, whenever he goes missing.

** Out of his hobbies, Lord Beerus (a cat-looking being designed after Akira Toriyama's pet Cornish Rex, Debu) frequently prefers to dine on planetary cuisine and sleep for years. It also gets noted that he doesn't take his job as seriously as the other gods of destruction, as he destroys planets that don't meet his tastes rather than the planets that are he is supposed to be destroying.

A large reason for this portrayal is that cats are crepuscular (unlike diurnal humans). They're most active when humans are asleep and tend to be inactive when humans are at their most active. As a result, it looks like your housecat is just lazing around all day. They also ''do'' sleep a lot (as mentioned, on average ten hours a day). Incidentally, dogs also sleep a lot, but for some reason aren't known for this like cats are (save for [[DogStereotype basset and bloodhounds]]).

* [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Gumball]] can be somewhat lazy.

A large reason for this portrayal is that cats are crepuscular (unlike diurnal humans). They're most active when humans are asleep and tend to be inactive when humans are at their most active. As a result, it looks like your housecat is just lazing around all day. They also ''do'' sleep a lot (as mentioned, on average ten hours a day). Incidentally, dogs also sleep a lot, but for some reason aren't known for this like cats are.

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** His brother, Champa, isn't too much better. His mind is often on food, to the point where he challenged Beerus for the earth of his universe, and then makes his angel, Vados, do the work of collecting fighters to compete for his side rather than put any effort into finding some himself, which bites him hard regarding Frost.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Garfield is one of the most iconic examples. He's a lazy FatCat that prefers to sleep and eat over anything else.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Hobbes (being a tiger) is often seen napping, with Calvin even composing an ode to it.
-->Still and quiet feline form,\\
in the sun, asleep and warm.\\
His tail is limp, his whiskers drooped,\\
Man, what could make this cat so pooped?
** Another time, Calvin mused that cats always seem so relaxed when compared to people. Hobbes believes that it's because cats are aware of their superiority to humans; Calvin theorizes it's because cats get an average of 14 hours sleep a day. Calvin then concludes that cats are just as crabby as people... [[CatsAreMean from atop the tree limb that Hobbes evidently chased him onto]].

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A large reason for this portrayal is that cats are crepuscular (unlike diurnal humans). They're most active when humans are asleep and tend to be inactive when humans are at their most active. As a result, it looks like your housecat is just lazing around all day. They also ''do'' sleep a lot (as mentioned, on average ten hours a day).

* ''Literature/WarriorCatss'': Played with. Most characters are anything ''but'' lazy because being lazy means you're unlikely to survive in the wild. However, this trope does apply to pet cats (or "kittypets" as they're called). Most kittypets are timid and cowardly. Clan cats see them as lazy oafs and they're prone to [[FatCat being a little plump]]. It doesn't help that many are [[LazyNeuteredPet neutered]], which makes them even more lazy.

--> '''Champa:''' How could you go and pick that creep to be on my team?
-->'''Vados:''' My lord, you didn't ask me to take the candidate's morality into consideration. In fact, I believe your {{exact words}} were "I don't want to be bothered with this. Just find fighters who will do whatever it takes to win their rounds no matter what."

* Played with in ''Literature/{{Warrior|Cats}}s''. Most characters are anything ''but'' lazy because being lazy means you're unlikely to survive in the wild. However, this trope does apply to pet cats (or "kittypets" as they're called). Most kittypets are timid and cowardly. Clan cats see them as lazy oafs and they're prone to [[FatCat being a little plump]]. It doesn't help that many are [[LazyNeuteredPet neutered]], which makes them even more lazy.
* Even amongst other African cat species, lions have a bad reputation in ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}''. They're seen as lazy animals who steal other's prey. They also think they're [[CatsAreSuperior better]] than other animals and even [[HollywoodAtheist the Great Spirit]].
* Bailey (a dog) from ''Literature/ADogsPurpose'' thinks that cats are just annoying freeloaders.

** Jennyanydots is a "Gumby Cat," which means she "sits and sits and sits and sits" all day--[[SubvertedTrope but]] when her family is asleep she is extremely active in rehabilitating errant mice and cockroaches.

--> Still and quiet feline form,
--> in the sun, asleep and warm.
--> His tail is limp, his whiskers drooped,
--> Man, what could make this cat so pooped?

* Jibanyan from ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' is a lazy {{youkai}} kitten who enjoys laying around and eating candy bars.

* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' where some catlike characters are lazy and some aren't. Whinger Cats hardly get up except to eat, Tubby Huggishis are said to lounge around a lot, and Purr-fection, a normal cat, is usually asleep when you see him.

* Zigzagged in ''WesternAnimation/MoshiMonsters'' where some catlike characters are lazy and some aren't. Whinger Cats hardly get up except to eat, Tubby Huggishis are said to lounge around a lot, and Purr-fection, a normal cat, is usually asleep when you see him.