They don’t have eyelids.
Of course they close their eyes, but where’s the eyelid? There’s no skin that folds up into itself, like humans have, that I can see. It’s just straight-up fur-covered cat face, and for the life of me, when they close their eyes I swear the skin and fur are just sort of morphing into the closed-eyes aspect. I looked and looked at my cat to get a handle on this, and all I can conclude is: no eyelids.
Yes, it was a slow day.
well, ya could shave around kitty’s eyes so that you could see better.
we do want pictures and sound clips 
They don’t need the old human “roman shade” style eyelid, because they have that special
nictitating membrane or third eyelid to take care of protection and moisturizing needs. Their
regular eye-closing feature is custom designed for demonstrating superiority or condescension
by means of the half-close.
Nuh-uh. I have this odd dislike for being a mass of bloody strips.
Yeah, like emm said, they got them nict … nicto … nicotine thingies.
djm
Why third? What are the first and second? Do we apes have two, i mean four?
~Hans
Dogs also have a nictating membrane.
One of our boxers had red nictating membranes. When he would sleep, he’d often look like “devil dog” because you’d see these really red “eyes”.
Nope. 1, 2. Top and bottom. Are you feeling shortchanged?
No! Definitely enriched by my second eyelids now. Just practising blinking with them…