My kitties get nose whistles. It's the weirdest thing!

I lost my cell phone yesterday, somewhere in my apartment. As I was looking for my phone one of my cats was sleeping on the couch. Unable to find it I picked up my landline and called my cell number. Lo and behold my sleeping cat started to ring! As the phone was ringing she simply rolled onto her back, stretched, and started to purr. The look she gave me when I rolled her over to get my phone was priceless. Cats sure are priceless.

Mine both snore a tiny amount sometimes, depending on how they've managed to position themselves ... it is rather endearing.

My cat doesn't snore, but she does have bad dreams and wake up crying for me to come lavish affection upon her.

I miss having cats so much! I think my housemate is defective; can I return him? Surely being allergic to cats is a factory flaw....

One of mine snores so loudly I've mistaken him for my husband's melodious nasal cacophony. Here he sleeps in all his glory. (The cat, not my husband.)

For some reason, snoring cats and dogs are funny.

My cat wheezes and snores and has the occasional sneezing fit. Then again, she's old enough to vote, so I guess she's earned it.

Be glad the nostrils are the business end of this whole phenomena because it could get a lot less cute real quick, I assure you.

Mines does not seem to snore.

My last kitten came with a subtle little snore, which the vet (who was rather nonplussed about it) stated that she would outgrow, but she never did.

Alta and Creeper both snore on occasion and it can get quite loud. Cute but it can't be a survival trait...

I’ve heard it said that cats domesticated themselves but I was actually thinking it from the predator rather then prey side. Cats spend a lot of time sleeping but wake up instantly if something interesting get their attention (or scares the hell out of them) so I figured that snoring would drive away prey. But as you point out cats are prey too…

All three of my cats snore on occasion, but the real fun is my boy. He has problems with his vocal cords, so can't meow very often, but all I have to do is call his name and he purrs so loudly, it sounds like a motorboat from halfway across the room.

Of course, he also thinks he's a dog. Comes when he's called, follows me around everywhere, even fetches. My favorite part is when he curls up on my feet and starts purring. Instant foot massage! @=)

My favoritest ever cat, PC (Stood for Personal Cat. Long gone, sob, but then a 40-year-old cat would be something you wouldn't want to see, I guess), didn't exactly snore. But she did feel that a good purr needed a little vocalized moan to go along with it. Weird, but terminally cute.

I hate to break up this monograph on the snoring habits of the common cat (I'm a dog person myself) but I need help with Mr County Junior. I have been guided to lots of great stuff by this list, including "Meet the Robinsons" and several works of Tim Burton (incidentally today I watched Burton's "Big Fish" which I adored except that I was watching it on the train and the final scenes had tears rolling down my cheeks ... embarrassing in a carriage full of pitiless schoolchildren and ruthless commuters). But I am making heavy weather with Mr County. I watched the whole of the introductory series and the pace seemed turgid, apart from the fact that the writers couldn't decide whether it was a trad Western serial and revenge-for-mah-Pappy's-death story, or a sort of science fiction/Western crossbreed with The Orb as a major player ... except that The Orb has only appeared two or three times and in a rather cursory and passive way. I finally stopped watching when Mr Bowler threatened to sing "Amazing Grace", a dirge I detest.
You are an intelligent, imaginative lot. Do I persevere? Am I missing something? Or is it a cult thing relying on race memory of episodes seen and catchphrases remembered from childhood? It has faint echoes of "Firefly" but none of the depth of character and class of that fine series. Should I cut my losses and watch the rst of "Mad Men" which I am also finding heavy weather, with not one character with whom I can empathise. What a foul lot they are! Even the central character is a self-centred, alcoholic, dishonest, wife-cheating, offspring-disappointing, smart alec advertising man with contempt for women. Who needs him?
Bring back "The West Wing"!
Kate

Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it, although the only series you name that I recognise is Xena and I only saw a few episodes of that. Maybe I will get to watch a little more if I can fast foward through "Amazing Grace" (erk).
Kate

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My lovely Sakura also has the twitches, as if she's hunting down something in Dreamtime. She also has the tendency to roll over in her sleep. One time, she was sleeping on a chair, and she rolled over - right off the chair! Of course, being a cat, she landed on her feet, but I wish I had gotten a pic of it as a "WTH?" expression crossed her face right after she landed. It was priceless....

I've never caught my kitties in the act of snoring or of dreaming. My dogs though... Speaking of canines, I was slaving away at my laptop late last night when I heard a weird sound. I hit the music's mute button and recognized a concerto being given by coyotes up the hill behind our house.

Anti snoring devices come in many forms. In choosing the most suitable one for you, you have to consider many factors. The easiest one is the snoring pillow. It's cheap to buy and a good one to start off with.