Possibly the loudest purr on record from the tiniest kitten (Twitter video)

[zuul]

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My kitten's purr is almost inaudible, so I LOVE this!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. as a cat daddy/expert, this is fake. cute but fake

[Ocelot II]

2. I suspect that was "enhanced" quite a bit, but

kittens often do seem to have loud purrs. One explanation might be is that kittens have less cat surrounding the purr to muffle it than a full-grown cat.

[zuul]

3. I have a male kitten who does purr.

I can feel it when I hold him, but I can't hear it at all.

Another male cat of mine, who died several years ago at the age of 19, had the loudest purr of any cat I ever knew. I miss the sound.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

4. My Tsuki girl used to purr so loud I could hear her on the other side of the room.

People knew she was with me while on the phone. Sometimes I had to remove her so we could hear each other.

As she has gotten older it has reduced a little but it is still loud.

[zuul]

5. Best sound in the world!

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

6. Yes, well, unless it wakes you up from a nice deep sleep.

[3catwoman3]

7. Or the sound may be accentuated because the poor baby...

…has that pushed-in nose deformity. I don’t know why people find that look appealing in cats or dogs

[mitch96]

8. Is that a purr or is it snoring? 😏. nt

[Ocelot II]

10. Definitely not snoring.

It would be unusual for a kitten to snore, and when cats do snore it's a sort of high-pitched buzzing with a pause because snoring doesn't happen when both inhaling and exhaling. I have lived with several snoring cats and this isn't it.

[Midnight Writer]

9. I had an old rescue tom that you could hear from the next room.

You'd hear something, not able to identify it, and walk around the house trying to figure out what it was.

Until you found him, laying down by himself, just motor boating away.

By contrast, my current rescue tom has an imperceptible purr. You have to touch him to feel it.