Kitten making strange noises

Hi,

We just took in a kitten that was going to be put in a shelter due to owner having to give her up. She recently just went through heat and that appears to be over with(she is bring spayed on  Monday). Last night she started making weird noises sort of the sound of something being scrubbed on a washboard it the best I can describe it. She is eating and drinking, did vomit a small amount of clear earlier. but have not noticed that nothing is staying down as when one of my cats swallowed trhead and needed emergency surgery.  We have 14 cats and this is not a sound I have heard before from any of them. She can go hours without making any noise and then go an hour with making the noise every few minutes. IT seems to be coming from down deep you can see her stomach moving like the sound is coming from way down. Has anyone expereinced this before? We have fostered cats and kittens, and owned cats for 40 years but this is a new sound to me. The closest I can come to it other than the wash board sound is the deepness of a kennel cough but it is not a cough.  Any ideas would be appreciated.  She does not seem to be in distress, not lethargic, still eating, drinking and playing oh and still GETTING INTO TROUBLE! LOL Thank you

Has she been wormed? Our foster cat Marianne Faithfull made noises like that for several days. She would throw up foam in the night. Then one evening she threw up the biggest darned tape worm I ever saw, as well as a large family of round worms. She was wormed two days later and hasn't been ill once since.

Wow, I never seem be amazed at how these vermin can be present in our cats and they still act remotely normal!!

It catches up with them eventually, though. It doesn't matter how many times I see that, it still makes me nauseated!

Luckily I have only had the disgust of seeing dead ones scooping a litter box and that was gross enough.

Ah, I remember those days...I envy you!

She was wormed a few months ago but it wouldn't hurt anything to try again. She did throw up during the night. I have her secluded with a separate box and food to make sure food is going through her. She does not have the normal signs of a foreign object like string normally present. She is eating drinking and being otherwise quite normal, purring etc.  Will call vet again, maybe they can see in further than I can to see if something got stuck. We had shrimp cocktail and wondering if she got hold of a shell from the tail? Now she has vomitted twice during the night and left a few foam spots the size of a quarter. I have not seen any worms in the litter box since all 14 were wormed but it may not be a bad idea to run another course on all of them to be sure. Thanks for the input, you did remind me of one cat that we fostered that had worms and used to make hack up noises all the time, this is a cross of that with sneeze sound and something else makes it sound like the noise from the old fashioned washboards is all I can think of LOL

I gave her mirilax because I did not see any poop, with 14 it is hard, she kept sneaking out of the room she was in.  After the mirilax she did poop,  the noise she was making stopped, seemed to still have an irriatation in her throat though, and she started sneezing. She went yesterday to be spayed and they did not see anyting in her throat that was causing it. She went through surgery fine, would not stay calm last night, she acts like nothing happened. She is still sneezing but all is well otherwise now. She is eating, playing, drinking all back to normal, not even licking her sutures it is as if she does not have them. All my other cats (female) always were sore that night, had to keep them quiet, they hardly at the first night, they just laid there and licked their wound. and cried. THis one is a trooper, maybe because she is older than all my others, they were 8 -10 weeks old, she is 6 mos?  THank you all for your input!