Just curious because I do realize he is a kitten and needs his naps.. but how much sleep do bengals need? He seems to sleep a good portion of both day and night. Is it because he is a kitten or is that just normal cat behavior?

the average cat sleeps about 20 hours a day as far as i'm aware.
they just go completely crazy & use all their energy in those few hours they are awake!

Let's describe a typical sunday...

6am : Onyx sits on me, purrs and tries to smother me . Then he goes playing with Chaos (in the living room and I close the bedroom door ).

8am : after much meowing at the door I usually get up, feed them... then they play again

9am : first nap of the day

12am : they wake up to play, eat and try to eat what's in our plates (or at least sniff it in case it's interesting).

2 to 7 or 8pm : second "nap" of the day... sometime they wake up, get up, turn the other way and go back to sleep . If we take them out for 20 minutes they come back in and go back to sleep after so much exhaustion... (?)

8 pm : wake up to eat, play, see what's in the plates

10 pm : go to sleep on us, tummies scratched, purring madly

12pm : time to play again when the humans go to bed ! (if we've kept them awake before they MAY go to sleep ).

So that's 6 hours awake... against 18 sleeping . Both are still kittens (5 months old)...

And now for a typical work day...

5:00-6:00 am : Mikesch transforms into a poltergeist on a house-wide rampage, climbing blinds, knocking things to the floor, and banging doors

6:00 am : alarm clock rings - both cats come running to jump on my bed for their "meow, meow, feed us now!" morning chorus and nibble on hands and feet if I don't get up fast enough

6:30 am : breakfast time, grooming, then nap time on my (preferably unmade) bed for Binky and shower-peepshow entertainment for Mikesch

7:30 am : Binky finds himself waking in a headlock and having his medicine forced down his throat before he wakes up completely (success rate about 50%); Mikesch demands to be played with, too

8:00 am : leaving the house and two sleeping cats to head to work

6:00 pm : back home again and greeted by two seemingly starving cats meowing up a storm at me - there's still dried up leftovers in the bowl though; the next half hour is spent cleaning food dishes, litter boxes and playing with the beasties or with two meowing cats following my every move around the house

6:30 pm : dinner time - cats sniff-lick the food and decide they don't like it after all and eat kibbles instead, followed by grooming and nap time on the recliner in front of the TV

7:30 pm : Binky finds himself waking in a headlock again for his second take of medicine for the day; Mikesch wants to go outside or be let into the garage to hunt insects while Binky keeps meowing on the recliner until I sit down to pet and groom him into a stage of purring and kneading ecstasy followed by deep sleep

10:00 pm : Mikesch tears through the house like a stampeding herd of buffaloes, cats end up wrestling under my desk, Binky escapes to my bed and proceeds to meow to tell me it's bedtime, Mikesch hangs out on the window sill above my desk (literally hanging upside down onto the open window sash) or sitting on my computer, batting at writing utensils and shredding paper

11:00 pm : "Meow, meow, emergency, extremely urgent: we're out of kibbles! Oh no, disaster! Need food to avert apocalypse, NOW!" - early midnight treat and bedtime; the cats might settle down in the basement or on my bed

If I come home at an unusual time, say for lunch break or around 3 PM in the afternoon, there's no sign of either cat. But if I don't get home in time for dinner, boy I'm in trouble.