Cats. Bath. (Yes, plural cats, singular bath. What was I, insane?)

[azurelunatic]

• Only one cat can hide behind the toilet tank at one time.


• The larger and stronger cat will take this position.


• Though, evidently, there was some protesting involved.


• The smaller cat will, instead, hide in the litter box.


• Some cats are polite and only cry while being washed.


• Some cats try to climb the sides of the tub, your arm, or anything else they can hook their claws into.


• Next time, trim the claws first.


• While you are scrubbing and praising the cooperative (well, not actively resisting) cat, the other one may choose to do something like SINK HER CLAWS INTO YOUR BOOB!


• Wet cats look very drowned.


• Holding more than one wet cat at once is an adventure.


• Especially if you left the towel in the other room and can't leave the very wet cats in the same room with the litter box lest they become litter-covered wet cats, looking much like a crunchy ice-cream bar dipped in nuts, only so very less tasty.


• When you try to dry both, you dry neither, as they split and retreat at high speed.


• Weren't you glad you wore something expendable that you could immediately take off afterwards?

Comments

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Poor babies... They so hate being wet. Although I'm giggling at the crunchy ice-cream bar image...

I'm lucky in that ours almost never need bathing.

[azurelunatic]

Votania and I try to get them bathed before they need it, so our pussies are always fresh-smelling.

(I just had to.)

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

It could be that I'm overtired, but that was hysterically funny.

I remember it took two people to clean my cats growing up. one person would, literally, grab their paws and basically hold them as if hog tied. The other would use the detachable spray nozzle in the shower to gently soak them with lukewarm water, shampoo them, and then rince them. Then one person would dry them with a towel. They didn't mind the towel part, but they would make the most pathetic and sad sounding "mew" when they were being washed.

Knowing how my current cats like to cling on to my arm when I play with them, I fear giving them baths.

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

My father's cat, all eight pounds of her, requires three people to bathe her: one to hold down her front legs, one for her back legs, and the third to soap and scrub her. Oh, and a fourth to run and get band-aids.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

LOL! We have mercifully thus far avoided the need to bathe our cat.

[kyrielle]

Might be worth removing the litter box from the room first, next time. Removes a hiding place and prevents the litter from encrusting the soggy cat. ;)

[azurelunatic]

I trim the cats' claws. It's marginally more difficult than trimming chicken claws and beaks, and they have more claws than chickens do, but it's a very similar procedure. The scruff of a cat's neck is a wonderful invention, too...

[azurelunatic]

My.

I feel lucky to be able to bathe two with only some small pinpricks in the breast.

[azurelunatic]

I recommend, if you're going to do it, start when they're a kitten, and bathe them regularly, so they become accustomed and resigned to the procedure.

[azurelunatic]

Good idea. I'll have to, next time.

[waywind.livejournal.com]

That made me giggle until my stomach hurt. Your pain was worthwhile, o noble lunatic.

[azurelunatic]

Thanks.

I discovered when I was 14 or so that my pain was worthwhile if it taught lessons to me or others. I resolved to make my falls on banana peels public and entertaining.

[dragonheart97.livejournal.com]

*ROTFLMFAO*

Thanks, I needed that! :) Gives me second thoughts about trying to bathe Fraidy anytime soon....

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That is the absolute worst pussy pun I have EVER heard. I am in awe!

[azurelunatic]

The beasties are so much fun...

[azurelunatic]

I learn from the best.