Have you ever encountered cat drool?

My partner’s female does that, too, when she’s purring. I think that it’s a sign of a happy cat. She drools and she has gas at the same time. ;)

To me it doesn’t sound like anything to be too concerned about. Some cats develop or grow out of habits just like humans do. I do recommend the eye gets examined for infection

Cat drool is also a sign of relaxation. My cat will often drool when she goes boneless in my lap, usually while purring herself to sleep while I scratch her behind the ears.

One of my cats drools when she’s sleeping. So do I, for that matter. If you don’t notice anything else, I wouldn’t worry about it.

Purring cats don’t swallow (you’ll sometimes notice them stop purring long enough to gulp, and then resume). They’ll also drool if they smell something yummy that they then scent mark.

Most of my cats have mellowed as they aged, becoming more affectionate and more consistent purr-ers.

Things to be concerned about with drooling are associated with other health affects (severe dental disease or an abscessed tooth, chemical or electrical burns to the tongue, a string foreign body wrapped around the tongue, severe nausea – all conditions that would involve additional symptoms).

My cat is 18 this year she has drooled for a long time and she still is going strong!

And yes I would say she does it more when she is sleeping.

My 9 year old dog drools too but while on a walk. It’s pretty normal, even though hes not the salivating type of dog cause he has also done that for years, otherwise my animals have some unknown salivating disease.

Thanks everyone. What a relief.

If the eye thing doesn’t clear up in a day or two I will make an appointment.

@rosehips Please keep me posted about the eye.

Ya good idea. My dog had an eye thing, and it was diagnosed when he went in for his routine rabies shots as a bacterial infection I followed the directions & it cleared up but now its back, so I just thank god there is half a tube left. Looks like he will need another round hopefully it won’t come back!

@Carinaponcho Thank you I will.

@nofurbelowsbatgirl Uh oh. I hope your dog gets better. Seems there has been something going on with eyes.

@rosehips he will get better the ointment works it’s just keeping it away, I don’t know why it came back :/

Glad I ran across this question. My cat as developed a fondness for being brushed and groomed in the past few weeks. During a couple of these grooming sessions I’ve noticed this drool also. Glad to find out a trip to the vet is not necessary, as everything else about her seems to be normal.
Thanks all.

@nofurbelowsbatgirl The vet didn’t tell you? That seems like a rip. Lol. Guess there is no way to know. But there has to sources.

@SABOTEUR I recently started grooming my cat. She didn’t like it when she was a kitten and she has such short hair… But I was grooming some other cats and realized how relaxing it was.

When my cat was about a year old he was involved in an accident that shattered his jaw. He had an operation to rebuild it but from then on he dribbled a lot and his tongue was permanently hanging out of his mouth! If you are sure your cat hasn’t been injured at all in that area I would get the vet to check her teeth.

@rosehips yeah I know! They don’t tell me much. :/ My one dog who almost died because of “something she ate” that is all they told me, I spent 3500$ she was in icu for 2 weeks her liver was failing. When she recovered I got sent home with her test results, this was from a vet hospital 2 hours from my home that comes highly recommended by any vet in my town & if you don’t go there & no vet in town has means to treat the pets issue & if you don’t have the money euthanasia is your only option. Anyway I never found out what is wrong with my dog. The only thing I know is it did affect her liver and now I can happily say my dog is alive and a vegetarian :) like me and every once in awhile she gets diarrhea which was one of the first symptoms she had before she got sick except she wouldn’t eat or drink, and in a matter of hours she was drooling gobs of drool that were unanimal like, within 45 minutes she stopped responding to me, it all happened really quick and at a horrible time as I had just lost my husband and even my 7yr old Guinea pig.

So in my experience drooling can be either normal, or the symptom to a problem. IMHO the eye is unrelated to the drool, but I’m no vet or else I would know what is really wrong with my dog!

She could have an allergy to something. Those allergy tests can be expensive though. Could be something she licks and maybe rolls in, like a blanket. Some cats suck on blankets while kneading them, and if one has a fiber in it or some detergent left on it that might cause it.

Our one cat would drool when he was really old, but he was also begging for my doritos. It was weird. He would crawl up on me trying to get to the chips I was eating.

@Leanne1986 I doubt it is physical as in an accident. I was worried about a stroke but her balance and movement is fine. She is still young and a very healthy active weight.

@nofurbelowsbatgirl Diet is something to consider. I am very picky about the food I buy her but I notice she attempts to eat my food and normally I will let her taste it and she decides she doesn’t like most of it, but she seems to be increasingly interested and will spend more time then normal tasting.

@TheKBird I haven’t changed detergents and I use eco friendly stuff with vinegar stuff. But maybe the eye thing is allergies. I still am not sure if it’s not my imagination that one eye has more eye boogers then the other or seems just slightly more watery. She doesn’t eat or chew on blankets or such but now I am getting concerned again. We live in an older apartment with an old sooty furnace so maybe that could be a cause. I don’t know what to do to change it if that is the case though.

@rosehips Hm, maybe an air purifier? They never really hurt to have anyway.

^^Thanks good idea!

Funny as I was reading this in the dark and we are all settled in for the night for the past 2hours, my dog scared the crap out of me by howling extremely loud! He has never done that before. He is a 9 year old Shepard that I’ve had since 6 Weeks. Lol, I.actually had to check on him to make sure he was ok…everything is fine.

^Lol. Pets can surprise us and change their behavior, maybe and there be nothing wrong?!

I have no idea if I am overreacting I kind of think I might be.

My sister had a cat that would drool and suckle on your clothes when you stroked her. It was sad because it was a very unpleasant habit and while people wanted to stroke her, they would avoid it because of the excessive drool. We think she was weaned too early. She was a rescue cat and such a little sweetie.

@Bellatrix lol I had a cat that would latch onto your earlobes! And my 9 year old Shepard has a blanky that he wraps in his front paws and sucks on which he has done since he was about 2. :)

@rosehips hopefully nothing is wrong. :)

@Bellatrix Oh that is too bad. Rescue kitties can be a handful and half. The owner’s mostly love it though. They’re quirks and bad habits. I mean yes it is annoying and we can complain but really if they weren’t around to do it, we would be quite sad.

We did love her and we did cuddle and stroke her (just with trepidation and while wearing a plastic coat jk!). She was such a sweet little thing.

Kneading is an old baby kitten trait.
To milk the mother cat when ffeding.
A sign that your cat is feeling comfortable, much like being around its mother cat.
Drooling, check tooth problem, carpet chemicals etc