Does your cat ever sound like it has laryngitis?

Erin, my tabby male:



When he's purring, and he looks up at me and meows, it sounds like he has laryngitis. :D

Meerrrahhh, Meerrrahhh, see, you'll never get me alive.



He actually looks a lot like your kitty.

My other cat, Lucky, a b/w female, is a little larger than Erin, but when she meows, she still sounds like a kitten. "Mew."

She'll run to a corner of the room, look up the ceiling and cry.

Traveled to York (England) many years ago and a guidebook said The Star Inn, in the center of the old (walled) part of the city, had a "ghost car". WTF is a ghost car? My friends and I just HAD to check it out. We went there for lunch, and it was very busy, so we waited out the noontime crowd till we could ask the bartender about it. He looked extremely puzzled, then realized it was a typo in the guidebook. He said, "We have a ghost cat..." Turns out the inn's resident dog would chase something invisible, so frantically, that he would run headfirst into the wall (which, apparently, the ghost kitty could run through). The bartender said they could only guess it was a cat, because they couldn't see anything. But the dog could.

Dilbert, our resident curmudgeon, has a raspy meow.



One of our two females does not meow--instead makes noises like "proooop?" and "aiye". Our other female (the neurotic one) yells at everyone all the time "raiow!" which usually means "Time for bed so I can walk on your head and eventually sleep between your knees." None of them has a normal meow.

Especially when she gets home from work.
"Buddy" looks very much like Erin, since they are brothers.

But Buddy has that loud, insistent "raiow!" too.

but if it's a sudden change in voice quality get thee to a vet. My beloved Max died of a throat abscess that first became obvious with a change in his voice quality. Vet put him on antibiotics and I'll never forgive myself for not taking him back in for follow up sooner than the recommended three days. Vet gave him a whiff of anesthetic so she could get a better look at his throat and he died on the exam table. I'm sorry, I'm incredibly maudlin when I have PMS

Thanks for the advice though.

He's a big white cat with blue eyes.. He almost never speaks,
and when he does it sounds strangled and painful.

I've wondered if he didn't have some sort of throat injury
when he was younger.

and he has this raspy growl. It's so cute...

Mhrph, mhrph....