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** In "The Magic Tree", Minerva gets drunk sucking on pine needles and spends hours lying in Miss Brooks' lap as they rock in a chair:
-->'''Miss Brooks''': Jingle Bells!//
Jingle Bells!//
Merry stuff like that!//
Oh what fun it is to rock!//
With a big fat drunken cat!

-->'''Miss Brooks''': Jingle Bells!
Jingle Bells!
Merry stuff like that!
Oh what fun it is to rock!

--> Jingle Bells!
--> Merry stuff like that!
--> Oh what fun it is to rock!
--> With a big fat drunken cat!

[[caption-width-right:350:Garfield in his natural habitat]]

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

[[caption-width-right:350:A cat in his natural habitat]]

''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'':
Tuna Sandwich is the only known fat cat in the series. Whenever he's not seeing into the future, he mostly sleeps around the diner all day, and eating tuna sandwiches given to him by Kid.

''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic''

** 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.
-->'''Champa:''' How could you go and pick that creep to be on my team?\\

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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Dodsworth is a character with only two cartoons to his name — a fat, lazy cat who tried to con a little kitten into doing his work for him. He had a William Bendix's voice but could easily be mistaken for Rodney Dangerfield.

Compare DogsAreDumb, which usually involves lazy ''dogs'' when not surprisingly, like dogs, cats can be dumb when they are lazy, in which dumbness and laziness go hand-in-hand. Also compared and contrast with BuffoonishTomcat, where cats are portrayed as dumb, but are more prone to slapstick than being like a everyday housecat.

Compare DogsAreDumb, which usually involves lazy ''dogs''. Not surprisingly, like dogs, cats can be dumb when they are lazy, in which dumbness and laziness go hand-in-hand.

This trope goes hand-in-hand with CatsAreSuperior and CatsAreSnarky. Many cat characters are under the impression they ''should'' be pampered and that, as a result, it's fine to lay around all day doing nothing.

-->This is Fred //
He sleeps on my bed //
Apart from when he's being fed //
You'll find him on my bed //
So that's Fred //
The bed-head

Compare DogsAreDumb, which usually involves lazy ''dogs''.

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 aren't known for this like cats are (save for [[DogStereotype Bassethounds and Bloodhounds]]), probably because dogs are generally more visibly energetic when they aren't sleeping.

A trait cats are commonly associated with is laziness. Cats are known for spending long portions of the day sleeping. On average, cats sleep ten hours per day.

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 Bassethounds and Bloodhounds]]).