An unusual toy of a sleepy cat.

It is suggested that the red gas emitted by the Doze Cat may have an alternative or even be a side effect that causes hallucinations, as none of the children's drawings in the second trailer for Chapter 3 show the Doze Cat with such features. The slumber Cat became the eighth and last Smiling Animal whose description was posted on Twitter. His name is a reference to the common name "catnip" (catnip), a plant that is used in herbal teas and is valued for its sedative and relaxation properties, and is also known for its function of stimulating domestic cats. His name may also refer to cat hibernation, which lasts easily and briefly. In folklore, lavender is known as a soothing plant, it produces a slight stress-relieving effect when inhaling the scent. The first two concepts of the name of the Cat-nap are "Nappy Cat" and "Kuddle Kitty". The final battle with the Slumber Cat at the end of the chapter references the Five Nights at Freddy's game series.

The cat-nap was designed specifically to protect the Home-sweet-home in the Shelter and put the children to sleep. Instead of the usual organs, the internal systems of the Cat-nap consist of an unknown malleable material of the Cat-nap.

The main purpose of the Nap Cat toy, however, is to release a pure lavender scent from the mouth when the tail of the toy is pulled, but an unknown error in the doll's production line caused the doll to emit a red gas that, according to the worker, did not smell like lavender. This gas, shown in the cartoon about Smiling Animals, is designed to help children fall asleep. Consisting of various undisclosed ingredients, including the extract of the notorious poppy flower, which was once used to transfer the soul, the gas can be exhaled by the toy at will. When inhaled, a person begins to lose consciousness. The effect of the gas, however, can be neutralized by wearing a gas mask.

The slumber cat also has sharp metal claws that it can hide inside its fingers, just like real representatives of the feline family. He mainly uses them to carve messages on the walls, and they seem to be hard enough to scrape off wood.

Background In 1989, Playtime Co. created the Smiling Animals series of spray toys, in which one of the participants was a Cat. When he pulled his tail, he sprayed the scent of lavender. But after a while, parents all over the country began to complain about strange and violent nightmares in their children, in which a Cat was present as an observer. Because of this, Playtime Co. She removed the Cat-nap from the line of Smiling Animals, removed his image from all posters and canceled the sale of his toys.

In 1990, the Cat-nap, as a monster Experiment 1188, was developed as a caregiver toy for a shelter. As Harley Sawyer said, the purpose of the Doze Cat was to keep an eye on the House—a cute house that held Children's Experiments captive and prevented them from escaping after these children were considered suitable for Experimentation. The Cat-nap contained toxic poppy gas, which was safely implanted into his pulmonary artery. It wasn't fatal, but it was very powerful.

It is known that after the operation, the Cat-nap behaved very strangely. During the adaptation period, on the day of his creation, he escaped from his cell, the door of which was incorrectly locked, and killed 6 employees, leaving behind a trail of blood and wisps of purple fur. He also showed signs of remembering his previous life as Theodore, and resisted some conditioning procedures in kindergarten, in particular, saying that his name was Theodore, before he was injected with a tranquilizer and sent back to the laboratory. After about 49 days, Katnap showed no signs of feeling like his old self, and in January 1991, he was declared ready to transfer to kindergarten. At first, he didn't get along too well with the orphans—some of them even cried in horror when they saw the giant purple cat for the first time. However, after a month, most of the children calmly accepted the presence of the Cat-nap, some even began to consider him their friend.

The Slumber cat is an anthropomorphic purple cat with black eyes with white pupils in the middle, triangular ears, a black nose and a long tail. His paws are dark purple, as are his ears. Like other Smiling Animals, the Sleepy Cat is depicted with a wide toothless smile (the mouth is shrouded in darkness). He also has a zipper running down the center of his torso, with a yellow crescent moon closure. The nightmarish (demonic) appearance of the Cat-nap looks like a skeleton of a cat with a crazier smile, the zipper disappears and the pupils glow, and the crescent-shaped clasp becomes a pendant hanging on a black thread. The larger version of the Slumber Cat has a more feline appearance with animalistic characteristics. Besides walking on all fours like a real cat, he boasts purple fur and bestial pluses, black pupils surrounded by white irises, and a feline black nose. His mouth is slightly shrouded in darkness, and his paws have four sharp black claws. His limbs are quite long (like Hagga Wagga's), very close to the skeleton and heavily covered with fur.

He guards the infamous Sweet Home, an institution where inhumane experiments on children were carried out. The experiments involved non-lethal, but powerful poppy gas in the lungs. Prior to its creation, a prototype of poppy gas was tested, as a result of which Mary Payne, who was nearby, saw a nightmare and screamed. During the creation of Experiment 1188, it went through two iterations before the final version. After the uprising of all the toys, the Cat-nap was locked up in a Shelter.

CatNap, also known as Experiment 1188, is the main antagonist of Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep".

Status Dead (parts used for Prototype body) View The Cat Toy Paul Male Smell Lavender (Poppy) Eye color Black Fur color Purple (normal form) white (in demonic/nightmarish form)

Nicknames Experiment 1188 Theodore Grumbell Role The antagonist Relationships The prototype (the object of worship) Peclopes (the heretic) Date of creation 1989 (Toy) November 20, 1990 (Monster) Place of creation Playtime Co. Date of death 2005 Place of death The Safe Room