Was Jones in hypersleep?

Not so much a catch as a throw, @Ingeniero. But you will find that a fair amount of my carefully crafted message is accurate :-)

I get what you mean hox...good point.  It was a throw out into the open for us to debate.  Good stuff....I didn't catch that the cat wasn't around when they woke up.

"Who is to say Jonesy was not a synth cat?"

Great question dk and the introduction of synthetic animals in the novel Alien: Covenant Origins was one of the most interesting parts of the book.  Alien: Containment gives us a look at that as well, below.