Not to wash my cat

[Hereward1332]

No euphemism. I have lived with cats all my life and have never heard of anyone washing theirs. Colleague mentioned washing hers every month and thought I was slovenly. Am I a slattern?

Fuck that shit! I swear I've still got the claws embedded in my back from when our cat got shit on his leg and I tried to bath him.
Knew we should have called him Fluffy or Buttons instead of Lucifer 😂 🐱 🛀

Talth, your cat is blatantly letting the side down. Both my cats have white paws and they are immaculate. Blindingly white.

As to washing a cat, I'd be weeping w laughter if I was the type.

Yay! I get to post a cat picture on-line.

We had to bathe our cat every day when he got diarrhoea - we found using flannels was a lot easier than actually trying to dunk the poor sod in the water. Wouldn't choose to do it again unless utterly necessary though!

Felix the Huddersfield Station cat gets sent off to the groomers every couple of months for a bath, but on her FB page they said that's because she lives at the station so gets quite coated in a diesel train fume film. They showed a clip of the process on a CBeebies programme once and she didn't seem thrilled!

I bathed my cat once. She'd got entangled in fly paper and even though I got the paper off her easily enough her fur was covered in gloop. I rubbed olive oil, then baby shampoo into her fur, then we had a shower.

She was very good. Miaowed, pathetically, once, but did let me get on with it. It was very early in the morning (too early for my brain to process there had been a reason why that particular door had been closed) and I think the shock of the whole experience kept her in check.

There is no way I would attempt such a thing now. I don't have enough skin on my body!

Ha. My cats would likely kill me if I tried to bathe them.

We actually did bath them once when they were kittens. We bought them with the additional of fleas, and they were too young for flea treatment so we had to wash them down and run them through with a nit comb.

Never again!

We get our Persian bathed by the groomer every other month. But she's a lazy nightmare who doesn't even contemplate grooming herself. 🤢

(She seems to quite like it)

Tried to wash my first cat when he was a few months old.

My forearms took weeks to heal.

He cleans himself just fine now. Never again!

Yanbu not to wash him. Leave him be. And save your forearms.

We have 5 cats and have never needed to bath a single one of them.

The spaniel, however, brings shame upon her family by rolling in fox shit on a daily basis if she can and there's no self-cleaning button on her. She has to go to the dog parlour and be put in the bath of shame most weeks.