Cat, VERY noisy breathing/snoring when sleeping?

aonb

Question for cat experts
our little feral comes into the house for a few hours every day. When she sleeps on the sofa, she stretches out and is really zonked. Her breathing is REALLY noisy - only when shes in this really deep sleep. Really loud snoring/breathing. Her breathing is normal at other times. Shes in great shape, has put on heaps of weight, her eye which I was worried about is fine 99% time (yesterday for first time I noticed a little bit of eyelid protruding - nothing much) She seems perfectly healthy, eats like a horse, hunts and alert and full of life. Any suggestions/ideas re the ultra noisy breathing? Bringing her to the vet is a not going to happen - took her once to be patched up and checked over and spayed - she was practically catatonic while there - so unless at deaths door, going to the vet for this little survivor is out, so just wondering about the breathing really.

mymo

One of our cats had a bad dose of cat flu as a kitten, it can cause scaring in the nasal passage, so he snores sometimes, very loudly, his breathing can be noisy too at times. As he's got older he gets recurrent bouts of snotty infections, on occasion it has affected his eyes, but only once or twice.
Your girl may be fighting a slight infection or be a little run down. If my boy gets bad I bring him to the vet, but he's a big pet and loves everyone.
Not sure if the vet could help if he can't examine the cat, you could try a vitamin boost for her? Something to add to her food.

Grab All Association

I wonder can animals suffer from sleep apnea. Was it ever researched. I knew someone who had a dog that would choke in its sleep.

aonb

Im hoping its something like scarring in nasal passage type reason as Mymo suggested. This little cat, who the vet reckons was approx age 3-4 was beyond skeletal when she arrived here, and in desperate shape - abscess on jaw, had heaps of old injuries, needed stitches on her back, had EIGHT kittens on board, needed teeth removed - I thought when I trapped her, they would put her to sleep, now shes FAT, seems very healthy, loves a cuddle, comes in for a few hours/day for sleeps (cant leave her in the house as shes not housetrained (toilet), and doesnt seem to 'get' the litter-tray concept) so apart from very noisy breathing/snoring when sleeping, she'll 'do' hopefully

Graces7

aonb wrote: »

Im hoping its something like scarring in nasal passage type reason as Mymo suggested. This little cat, who the vet reckons was approx age 3-4 was beyond skeletal when she arrived here, and in desperate shape - abscess on jaw, had heaps of old injuries, needed stitches on her back, had EIGHT kittens on board, needed teeth removed - I thought when I trapped her, they would put her to sleep, now shes FAT, seems very healthy, loves a cuddle, comes in for a few hours/day for sleeps (cant leave her in the house as shes not housetrained (toilet), and doesnt seem to 'get' the litter-tray concept) so apart from very noisy breathing/snoring when sleeping, she'll 'do' hopefully

So moved by this and well done is too mild a term...I lost the two ferals I was caring for the move before last. One I could not cage. The other I did but he took off on arrival. My great and lasting thankfulness was that thanks to a small rescue group offering a "fix it for a fiver" neutering, they had both been sorted and also a long spell of good food and caring. THANK YOU!

aonb

Graces7 wrote: »

So moved by this and well done is too mild a term...I lost the two ferals I was caring for the move before last. One I could not cage. The other I did but he took off on arrival. My great and lasting thankfulness was that thanks to a small rescue group offering a "fix it for a fiver" neutering, they had both been sorted and also a long spell of good food and caring. THANK YOU!

Graces7 those of us who are animal lovers, and are the types that cant see an animal suffer get satisfaction enough for helping an animal in need, but when as with this little cat, there is a complete turnaround - gone from feral/wild skeletal misery to a loving little fatty purr-ball, it just gives one a such sense of pleasure and joy and love, that any effort or money spent is inconsequential. Shes a little dote, and would melt your heart with her trust and loving ways

Lady Haywire

When my Kovu gets really relaxed he snores ridiculously loudly as well. If he's in my bed I can hear him all the way from the kitchen! Though I'm guessing it's because he's a little chubby, he's not huge though- 5.9kg at last vet visit. He's not had any issues with flu or breathing problems as I've had him all his life, I''ve just accepted it as one of his quirks. As I type this i can hear him sitting on the windowsill outside in the sun :D

I could record him if you want to compare snory cats!

Graces7

aonb wrote: »

Graces7 those of us who are animal lovers, and are the types that cant see an animal suffer get satisfaction enough for helping an animal in need, but when as with this little cat, there is a complete turnaround - gone from feral/wild skeletal misery to a loving little fatty purr-ball, it just gives one a such sense of pleasure and joy and love, that any effort or money spent is inconsequential. Shes a little dote, and would melt your heart with her trust and loving ways

Cheesy grin here! All my pets are rescues; three cats and a crazy dog. And lost count of the numbers of rescues I have loved over the years.

SillyMangoX

My Cream snores his head off when he’s asleep too. He’s never had flu etc so it’s not down to scarring, he’s just a snorer, like humans can be! Now at one stage it did get way worse, but we discovered a couple of weeks later he had a grass blade up his nose. Once that had been sneezed out, he went back to his normal level of snoring

Graces7

SillyMangoX wrote: »

My Cream snores his head off when he’s asleep too. He’s never had flu etc so it’s not down to scarring, he’s just a snorer, like humans can be! Now at one stage it did get way worse, but we discovered a couple of weeks later he had a grass blade up his nose. Once that had been sneezed out, he went back to his normal level of snoring

One of my most elegant Siamese used to snore like that. Most inelegant!