Do kittens have a shorter sleep cycle, like human babies?
Or could it just be his sleep cycle is still set to where I found him?
Here's the story, I found and rescued a kitten this summer about 2 months ago, who is now about 6 months old.
I found him living in a weedy thicket next to busy highway back in mid-July. About a week after I found him (and had been feeding and taming him) he got a really bad cut or scratch on his right cheek, that quickly got infected, so I trapped him and took him home August 5, 2012 and took him to the vet the next day.
He's fine now, his face healed up well, but he seems to get more active in the early morning hours, around 6am and 8am and 11am, etc, knocking things over, chasing the older cats and generally making a lot of noise in the morning when I'm still trying to sleep, but he almost always sleeps ALL afternoon and most of the evening.
So the question is, do 6 month old kittens have shorter or weird sleep cycles? Something he will grow out of?
Or could it be because his sleep cycle was set to wake up in the morning to be alert to or aware of the people and traffic near where he was living, and then sleep time was during the hot hours of the afternoon? Which might mean I need to try to keep him active in the afternoon, or my usual waking hours, so he will start to sleep more in the mornings.
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...but both of them are kind of small cats at only about 9 pounds. All 4 are found or rescue cats. My 5 year old female I found sleeping in my garden 9 years after my big (15-1/2 pound) former neighborhood tomcat found me when I moved into this house.
Bobby (the kitten) has some really big paws, ears and whiskers, so we figure he's going to be 14 pounds easy. 
but today he was making so much noise and trouble, I had to put him out into the main part of the house and close the door behind me, twice. The first time I opened it up was because the younger girl was crying like I had her in the box going to the vet, she hates closed doors and being shut out of where I am. She's definitely my sweet heart. 
When we first got a new kitten (who is now 3 1/2), she and Gracie (2 years at the time) would tear it up from about 4am until we woke up. Kitten now has her most active time around 9pm. Try and play with Bobbie Jo every night to try and tire him out. Other than that, you just have to live with the disturbed sleep.
He's beautiful by the way. 
"He' so FLUFFY!!!"
He's got all the traits of a Somali breed Cat, except for his bi-color coat, so I figure he's a Somali/Domestic Short hair mix, so as someone wrote about the Somali breed, he has a strange fascination with water. He loves tipping over the water cups (water for him and the other cats), so I have found putting the water cups in the tub and the shower stall helps with clean up when he eventually knocks it over. Only problem now is, he LOVES knocking over the water cups just to watch it go down the drain.
Other than that, he's a great kitten.
