Conference misery::feline_v1

    What a fun topic!
    
    In my house, you can hear a VERY loud sound - it's a called:
    
                                 PurSnore
    
    This sound is emitted by Miss Lara the Lady when she is a very deep
    sleep !!
    
    Another unique sound that can be heard at my house is:
    
                             Hoooooooonk   Hoooooooonk
    
    This is emitted by my free-fed Cornish Brown Tabby Rex, Terror !
    When he wants to be picked up, or let into a room when the door is
    closed, he 'honks' - you sorta have to hear it to believe it !!
    It's kind of like living with a goose.
    
    The cutest sound of all, is a litter of five hungry kittens 
    purrrrrring at the same time when they are nursing from mom!
    Sometimes it was so loud, it could be hear in the next room!
    
    E.T. and the cast of thousands (some days it feels like millions)    

in our house, it is the long "PRRRRROWM?" from Hannah just when she
FINALLY settles down in our waterbed at night..she purrs too softly
for anyone to hear it, but she always calls "Mom?" one last time
before curling up and purring herself to sleep.  That's the signal
that she has made the last bed check of the night and all of us are 
tucked in and her world is safe and secure.  

	I've got one very loud purrer, Bandit.  T.K. on the other
	hand was inaudible; you can feel him purring but not hear it.

	Lately though, T.K. has been making noise purring!  It took
	him three years to figure out that he wasn't supposed to just
	vibrate.  Now that I can hear him purr too... its wonderful!

	Karen

      When my "Cookie"'s in heat, she likes to lay on her back in my arms
    like a baby with her back legs spread wantonly, and have me rub her
    belly....and she comes out with these sounds that can best be described
    as a mixture of a 'chirp', 'purr', and 'mrrow' all combined in one.. It
    sort of sounds like a demented cricket...and all the while her eyes are
    opening and closing and her little head's snuggling and rubbing against
    my arm...
      (We ahven't had her spayed cause she tested FELV+ as a kitten, and we
    were told that a trauma--such as the spaying operation--COULD trigger
    the d&*%#@*d disease...so we put up with her "antics" every now and
    then....but overall it's not as much trouble as it is sort of funny to
    watch her...
    
      John McD

    Re: .4

    Several years ago I took in a stray that was dumped in my neighbor-
    hood. She was an adult, unspayed female, and tested positive for 
    feline leukemia. She had a wonderful personality and was in good 
    health at the time; I just couldn't bring myself to have her put to 
    sleep. My vet also said, as yours did, that the spaying operation 
    could bring on the disease, or that she might not live through the 
    operation. After 6 months, my housemate convinced me that Nikki was 
    very uncomfortable when in heat (she would really yell). Since Nikki's 
    health seemed very robust, I decided to have her spayed. She came 
    through with flying colors and lived another 1 1/2 years.

    Hope you have many happy years with Cookie!

    Linda

    Well, aside from the usual purrs you can frequently hear Bob
    "peeping" his way around the house.  He "bobs" around cheeping
    and peeping and chirupping.  I love it.
      Nancy

>    Well, aside from the usual purrs you can frequently hear Bob
>    "peeping" his way around the house.  He "bobs" around cheeping
>    and peeping and chirupping.  I love it.

Nancy,

so you guys have a "mummbler" too!  I know I can hear Hannah mummbling
and humming to herself as she goes about her very important duties of
keep track of all of us...all the time.  She patrols the house constantly,
talking to herself, when both Marge and I are home and working about
the house....I can just hear her saying, "if they would BOTH work in
the SAME place, my job would be SO MUCH EASIER...but NOOOO, they have to
spread out all over the place...."

I do love the little talks she has with herself.  She also giggles when
she is having fun or happy to see me.  I swear it is a sound I've never
heard a cat make and it sounds like a chuckle or giggle.

sigh.  the rest of the gang is pretty silent except for Tabby-cat's
typically siamese cry when she wants attention.  Ah well, Hannah talks
enough for all of them.