eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (Default)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-12-23

"Good design is the art of getting out of the way." -- [info] metahacker, 2008-12-10

eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (Default)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:29am on 2008-12-23
eftychia: Perrine (fluffy silver tabby) yawning, animated (yawn2)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 01:29pm on 2008-12-23

Perrine fell asleep on my ear.

I hear a distinct whooshing sound with a creak note under it. In a human, I would call it wheezing, though not especially severely.

Thing is, I don't know how noisy feline respiration normally is, so I don't know whether this sound is significant or not. She's showing no visible signs of distress ... (though in a cat that's not definitive).

So my question is: how noisy is a cat's breathing supposed to be?

This is not loud enough to hear when my ear is not in direct contact with her body, at least not with the background noise of a computer fan nearby and city traffic outside; but with her lying on my ear the creak-whoosh is quite pronounced. If it were all whoosh with no creak -- approximating 'pink noise' with no distinct tonal components -- then it probably would not occur to me to wonder about it.

(And now, of course, I want to get ahold of a stethescope and listen to various critters with it ...)

eftychia: Perrine (fluffy silver tabby) yawning, animated (yawn2)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 01:33pm on 2008-12-23

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