A Cat for All Seasons

Dave often employs the strategy below when he wants to feel cool, temperature-wise. (He always feels cool personality-wise, as you likely know.) Thus, the sight below is usually one for the summer. However, Dave will occasionally unleash this strategy in the winter months as well. 

There are a number of reasons for this. First of all, Dave's home is climate-controlled, so even in the winter it is not particularly cold. But second of all, and more importantly, Dave doesn't want to get out of practice. He knows how important this strategy is to him every summer, and he won't have any time to practice come July. A failure then could be nothing short of devastating, so he keeps himself in good shape year-round to avoid such a failure.

Here is the strategy from another angle.

The Conch, Volume X: The Reappearance

Dave greatly enjoys employing the Conch strategy, but while Dave is a cat for all seasons, the Conch is not a napping strategy for all season. It can only be used rarely during the summer, due to it's tendency to conserve heat. Therefore, it is replaced with strategies that allow Dave to remain cool throughout the summer. 

(*Dave is always a "cool" cat personality-wise, but sometimes he is warm. At other times, he is also "cool" temperate-wise, and is thus cool in more than one manner.")

Dave in a funny position

This is not a typical napping position for Dave. It is really unlike any other napping strategy he has used. But there is one thing this strategy has in common with Dave's normal strategies: it looks very comfortable. It looks like the kind of napping strategy that would be effective in the winter months, so perhaps Dave is simply trying to prepare strategies well in advance this year. After all, last winter was quite severe, and as good as his improvisational skills are, he likes to be as prepared as possible.

The Summer Months

When the weather gets warmer in the summer, Dave employs a set of napping strategies that allows him to remain cool. When he does this, he is a pretty cool cat in more ways than one. In other words, he is cool both temperature-wise and personality-wise.