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18 May 2011

My cat talks in her sleep.
It's because she's a kitty viking!
posted by sperose 18 May | 11:28
About Trilby?
posted by Kronos_to_Earth 18 May | 11:52
Aww. Mine occasionally make that warbling sort of noise that they also make when they're excited by birds outside the window. So I assume they're dreaming about stalking little birds and mice... and foam soccer balls... and twist ties (just to name a couple of the things they love to fling all over the house).
posted by FishBike 18 May | 11:53
About Trilby?


Maybe she has an internet crush on him.

Trilby talks in his sleep too. It's very cute, actually, because it's low volume and the noises are surprisingly human-sounding — squeaky little murmurs like a baby makes.

I have speculated on what if anything he's dreaming about. Treats perhaps, or life before neutering.
posted by Orange Swan 18 May | 12:07
Lucy talks in her sleep too, when she's in the middle of a big dream with her paws, whiskers and mouth all twitching. It's cute as hell, but if I get the camera she always wakes up and I never capture the moment.

I think Lucy's best dreams probably involve her having to eat her way out of a swimming pool filled with Whiskas Katzinis. She'd kill for those things, I swear.
posted by Senyar 18 May | 13:00
Senator sniffles and huffs and squeaks in his sleep too. My favorite is when I am holding him and he wakes himself up by accidentally twitching his face into my arm.
posted by rmless2 18 May | 13:05
Senator is a cool cat name.
posted by Ardiril 18 May | 13:18
(he's a rabbit but thanks)
posted by rmless2 18 May | 13:26
Oh, owning a rabbit is cool from the start.
posted by Ardiril 18 May | 13:32
My dog will sometimes bark in her sleep, but it's a muted little sleep bark, in the back of her throat. It's soooooo cute.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 18 May | 14:23
mine snores. tiny little impossibly cute and sweet little snores. And sometimes her teeth chatter....I wonder what she is biting in her sleep?
posted by dorgla 18 May | 15:56
I haven't heard my cats talk in their sleep, but Kaylee (the dog) does fairly often. It's mostly little burfs and paw twitching, but it's sometimes little growls and whimpers.
posted by deborah 18 May | 16:22
A neuroscientist friend once told me that someone had done brain scans on sleeping cats, complete with electrodes and stuff. (Don't make me give details. It's been 10 years or so since I heard this.) Anyway, he said they found that when cats dream, it's the muscles and the part(s) of the brain involved in hunting and pouncing that are most active. From this, they concluded that cats dream about catching prey, which I think is kind of sweet. Zuzu's dreaming about her little mouse toys!
posted by mudpuppie 18 May | 17:45
I have no pets, but I frequently dream that I'm drafting in AutoCAD. I wonder if I twitch and swear, like I do at work?
posted by Specklet 18 May | 22:57
One of our cats has a sweet, tiny mild snore that sounds like a very small voice saying "fffeeeehhh....feeeeehhh.....fffeeeehh..."
posted by Miko 19 May | 10:24
Our cats are silent in sleep, but they certainly look happy.

My Aussie is amazingly quiet too. Even his dreams are silent action flicks.
posted by bearwife 20 May | 21:59
Galahad the cocker spaniel woofs in his sleep. It sounds like a Macintosh "Wild Eep."

Eeeeevery so often...once or twice a year...Saedy the otherwise very, very quiet Aussie dog howls in her sleep. It's a single bell-howl, starts very quiet and ramps up, up, up. Lasts quite a long time. It's an eeeeeeerie sound, particularly coming from a dog who barks a couple of times a month. And also particularly when it wakes you up from sound sleep.
posted by galadriel 21 May | 10:54
NPR Must Reads || Trilby vs. Raccoon

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