It’s 3 a.m. and a weird noise awakens me. It’s sort of familiar but it’s not the beloved husband’s snoring. It’s coming from the back of the bed.
Mollie, our smallest cat, who often sleeps there, was snoring up a storm. For a small cat, she sure can make noise.
I open one eye and in the dark I can see the silhouette of her body. Her legs are twitching, her hears flicking. Must be some awesome dream. I swear I see a smile on her face. Lucky cat.
Adorable but maybe not at that hour. Im the loudest snorer in our house due to allergies. But the cats can get pretty loud too.
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I’m ok if all the critters (husband too) start to snore AFTER I fall asleep. If they wake me up or start before, I have a hard time sleeping. Mollie is a “soft” snorer so she is not too bad.
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Our dog snores sometimes, but I have never heard a snoring cat! That must be a sign of complete contentment! Gotta love that! 🙂
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My current crew of 3 all snore. Morgan is little pitty pats. Mollie has gotten louder as she got older. Hazel, prior to her weight loss, probably needed a CPap machine!
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I’m convinced they really do dream. It sounds like Mollie’s was a good one. So sweet!
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I think it was a good one too. I love that they can sleep so soundly and safely. Outdoors, cats just nap because they have to be aware and ready or they’ll get eaten.
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Teddy dreams alot but doesn’t snore. Sometimes he wakes me up with a kick in the head. Jack purrs all the time even when he is sleeping.
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When she was younger, Morgan didn’t sore either but I caught it this summer. Soft gentle snores. Awww sweet Jack!
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She is a lucky girl!
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I envy all my cat’s ability to sleep so soundly and instantly. Wish I could turn that on with the flick of a whisker (yes I do have the whisker…)!
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That mouse never stood a chance. 😀
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Absolutely none! There is nothing better than mouse breath in the morning.
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LOL!
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She looks like such a sweet cat. Her life is perfect. No wonder she’s smiling in her sleep. Sweet dreams.
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Wait until I take her for her tooth extraction in a couple of weeks. Technically it should be better because the vet says that she has to have pain in her mouth. Hard to tell with cats. That makes her sweet dreams so much sweeter.
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In the nighttime, it must be a symphony of sound at your house and Mollie is just chiming in! 🙂
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It is! I don’t know if I could stand perfect silence anymore.
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Either none of my cats snored or I slept through every night (a very good possibility). Wonder if Mollie remembered her dream when she wore up. 🙂
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I don’t always remember my dreams and sometimes I wish I didn’t!
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Now that is a mystery humankind has not solved–cat dreams. I’m guessing they are like ours without the appearing naked in public one.
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I wonder if they have that one where you are falling. Naked? You dream about appearing naked? Sounds like a blog post to me!
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Actually I don’t as an adult. But as a teen or kid I remember having that dream. I REALLY had the falling dream a LOT as a kid and in fact I have a poem about it in my poetry collection. Now my dreams are very varied and interesting–when I can even remember them.
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I don’t have that falling dream anymore. Maybe our dreams mature? Or we just can’t remember them!
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When I was a kid, I didn’t dream of being naked, but I did dream of forgetting to wear my underpants to school and not realizing until I was pumping in a swing or turning upside down on the monkey bars.
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Yikes! That would be a nightmare for this Catholic raised girl!
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But not lucky Kate! It is tough to be surrounded by snorers. I complain about my husband, and people are like, “go sleep in another room.”
But it’s worse there. There’s a dog with a fourteen pound head who snores and he wants to sleep with me.
Even Bossy Cat snores.
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Every living thing in this house snored except Jake, my old (deceased) cat. There was no getting away from it. On a good night I can sleep through it all. On a bad night………Then my husband has the guts to complain that the frogs are loud!
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Sweet!
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She is my sweetie!
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There’s little more amusing than a loudly snoring little cat…they would be so embarrassed if they knew…
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Seriously! She’s around 8 pounds and snores like a drunken soldier (not that I would really know what that sounds like….)
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Mars that “dainty, elegantly mannered” image they cultivate during the day…although that determined stomping of feet down the hall always made us suspect here
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Maybe dreaming about catching that overly plump mouse for Thanksgiving.
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Either that or finally boxing that pesky Morgan cat that always is after her.
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Kitty dreams. Wonder what they are? Probably what ladysighs mentioned above! Better to not know.
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I believe that in her dreams she finally killed that catnip mouse she finds so elusive.
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Last week somewhere……can’t remember where……….there was a cartoon with a cat and the caption was something like, “If your cat was big enough, he would eat you.”
You came to mind. 😦
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🙂 If they were big enough I’d get smothered with all the bodies trying to lay on me!
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I guess that wouldn’t be a bad way to go. lol
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🙂
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I located the cartoon after hours of searching. lol
http://mallardfillmore.com/comics/november-17-2015/
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