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[Annoyed Kitten voice] "I didn't even need a bath in the first place!"
"OK, Here's the deal. For every bath you give me, I'll pee in your slippers. Capische?" [steely glare]
I think you better rethink that deal, Arminda K.
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i was crawling through the drainpipe and i saw a lite. can i stay here?
[buAAHAHAHAHAA!!!! - Ed.]
[Yes you stay! I get towels now! - Ed.]
OMG!
So Key-ute!!!!
So teeny-weeny!
his hoomans better be sleeping with one eye open.
And here on the east coast it's actually 8:40!
Somebody get a warm towel -quick!
"I need to tell you something. Can you put come down a little closer?Put the fleshy part right about here."
We interrupt this web site for this important safety message:
Never point finger at wet kittehs and laugh at them no matter how pathetic they look. You will regret it. We know.
Now back to our regularly scheduled content.
Poor little scrap.
*gently grabs the Kitteh in a warm towel and runs off*
Poor Kitteh!! He's so keeyyuuute!!! But now he's all mine!!! And I will call him George!!
Oh man! She looks just like Mittens from Bolt!
Can you puhleeze get me a warm towel and some warm milk ? *said in the cutest sweetest voice possible*
(after towel and milk )
*Said in Hauty cat voice*
Thank you . I shall not hurt you since you have complied with my demands .
(walks away flicking tail in annoyance)
Cute...but I have to ask, why oh WHY do people bathe their cats??
Nicole-Because their cats stink! (Really, it has happened to me on several occasions! (Pee, poop, maple syrup, baaaad cat litter).
Trust me.
The very old woman gave it a bath and brushed its fur and gave it plenty of warm milk until it grew nice and plump. "And it is a very pretty cat after all!" said the very old woman...
Actually, I think a second bath might be in order. We'll throw out the slippers.
And often it's because kitteh got into something that would be unhealthy/deadly to wash off themselves or in the case of my fluffball, because they have a skin condition and bathing them with a specific, vet recommended (expensive) shampoo is part of the treatment.
(and can I just say that I'm dying to kiss that wee little nose? And then wrap the kitteh up in a fluffy towel and snuggle under the covers until they be warm and dry and halfway to forgiveness?)
I'm back! And what a great post to come back to, too. I've been overwhelmed with furless kid issues, but I needed a dose of teh qte to set me to rights. w00t!!!!!!
I can haz this kitteh? I promise no ebil baffs and only snorlges.
okay..i dunno...I've had many, many cats over my years and I've never seen them not clean themselves or leave poop hanging on themselves but okay...
"I am shocked that you would do this to me. Shocked. I am seriously re-evaluating our whole relationship."
(Did anyone else notice his left back paw is kind of bare?)
Nicole, I'd say the vast majority of cats go through life without having to have a human style bath. In fact I never had to bathe a cat until I got my girl 13 years ago. And my boy has never had a bath in all his 8 years. But my little Miss McFussypant has a skin condition and requires the occassional bath. Just like all humans, cats have different situations and needs and requirements. Heck, the cat of one of my friends loves to crawl under cars and often needs a bath to remove bad substances like, oh, oil and other motor fluids.
But no one bathes a cat for fun. Trust me. You lose too much blood that way.
I'm still trying to recover from teeny lifted front paw...
This kitty doesn't look particularly upset at all, going by the set of his/her ears: they're in inquisitive mode, not shred-your-flesh mode :D Imho it would be neat if this kitty's person could come here and explain what led to this picture!
See now this kitty is all clean and ready for take your cat to work day.
(CO Calendar Jan 12th)
Awww, cute kitty, who I am sure is much cuter when dry. Pathetisad in the tub!!
Trabb's Boy - props for the Millions of Cats ref.
This is very timely - I was changing out the water in the hot tub this weekend and 2 of our 4 cats fell in during the process. (I forgot for 3 seconds to close the door a couple of times.) And I can assure you, they do not wait for you to gently pick them up with a nice warm towel. Nor do they saunter away calmly flicking their tails. They do, however, look pretty silly. Not that I would laugh in their presence.
I once tamed a feral cat who would sumbit to an occasional bath after tramping through suspicious looking stuff, but my Chloe would NEVER have a human bath. The groomers even gave her back and said don't ever bring her here again. She was self-cleaning right up until the time she had to cross the rainbow. Very sweet, except in that one instance. We didn't push it.
Tiny little kitty, giiiiiant bath tub!
To add to the debate, this one time in the winter my dad found the tiniest stray kitten camped out under a car the coldest night imaginable, and the poor little thing was just caked in engine grease and oil and whatnot. I'm sure she didn't enjoy the bath he gave her, but I'm sure she enjoyed being warm and clean afterward :)
Just to add to the reasons already mentioned why someone would clean a cat: flea bath. I've only ever bathed a cat twice (two different cats, one time each) and both times it was to rid them of flea infestations. (I'm an indoor kitty fan, but the first one was a housemate's kitty who was allowed outside and was bringing fleas into the house, the other was a shelter kitty that came home with me and had some flea issues at first.)
But like Vampy said, no one bathes a cat for fun.
Such a sweetie!
I don't wash my cats, but I have had some foster kittens who have had to be rinsed or have a little sponge bath if they have a particularly bad case of the runs. I may be imagining it, but it seems to me they get blue when they are dirty and really perk up once they are clean (and dry & warm, of course).
Awww!!!! Little soaked kitteh looks so cute!! A nice dish of warm milk, perhaps???
OMG, Trabb's Boy! Awesome reference. We just got Millions of Cats at my baby shower!
Re: Cat baths - I agree: no one bathes a cat for fun.
We have bathed our fat cat because he won't clean himself. He stinks after awhile. (Also, he'll sometimes have cling-ons after he uses the litter box.)
Looks like she might have dirt on nose and back paw.. she may have been into something bad. As for occasional cleaning cats, just a few weeks ago my 18yr old cat came out of little box with a smear of "poop" down her back leg. I got her onto to counter and used a wet cloth to wipe it off for her.. she purred the whole time and kissed me on the nose to say "thank you". She's never had a bath but I am convinced she was grateful she didn't have to wash that off by herself.
Our persian gets the cling-ons, too. We snip them off, rather than bathe her, because I enjoy keeping my arms attached to my body.
DD Katie has rescued two kitties from the aluminum factory where she works. Bucky was literally in a trash box when she found him-he barely had his eyes open, and wasso dirty we couldn't determine his true color. Harry Bobbles, when caught in a Have-A-Heart, was covered with an extremely unhealthy number of fleas and a thick coat of filth. Neither kitty appreciated the baths, but are now healthy, happy members of our menagerie.
had a cat who jumped into the tub with me often. duh.
jasmine was a rescued kitty and so is a street cat. i am weak, too. if i tried ever to bathe her, she would keeeeeel me. and then feel bad about it, though.
Honey, I shrunk the kitteh!
Ha, this reminds me of the "Kitten Thinks of Nothing But Murder All Day" headline from The Onion a few years back! :)
as people have mentioned, all cats are different. My Lucille doesn't need bathing, but she LOVES it when I take a bath. She climbs on me while I lounge in the tub and doesn't care if her tail or other body parts are submerged. I think it's totally silly and usually try to discourage her, but she tolerates my quirks so I try to do the same for her :)
Oh...sniff! That kitten looks just like a kitten that lived with us (briefly) in '99. We named her Polly LePew -- she was the tiniest kitten I've ever seen when born, barely larger than my little finger. We stayed up two days and nights, warming her with dishcloths fresh from the dryer, and feeding her with a doll baby bottle. She was born with REALLY short legs, and when she grew up enough to use the litter box -- well, things didn't quite go as hoped. Poor Polly was always getting a bath! She was a sweetheart, fearless, very loving. She had multiple organ defects and passed in her sleep when she was about 9 months old. We've missed her so much. Thank you for the photo -- it looks like Polly's spirit is always alive!
My cat insists on being in the shower with me. She is strange that way..
'okay..i dunno...I've had many, many cats over my years and I've never seen them not clean themselves or leave poop hanging on themselves but okay..." ok, miss nicole-the know-it-all, I have also had many cats over the years and have had to *gasp* give them a bath from time to time, getting into things, bad case of diarrhea (poor thing) etc. It does happen...it just hasn't happened to you...yet.
oh the poor thing, it looks like it has ringworm. see the dirty nose? that's just what my kitty looked like when she had ringworm. she had a bath like once a week until it cleared up, and boy was she one pathetic little kitteh. very forgiving, too, always ready to snuggle as soon as she was dried.
I love your site, but cannot look at it because it is so painfully slow to load. Is there something I can do to make it easier to view? I have high speed broadband so it shouldn't be a problem.
if you give it a lot of warm Milk, alls you'll have is a kitten with diarrhea.
then you'll have a reason to give it a bath.
looks like ya missed a spot, right thar on the nose area.
poor little sweet cute babeh.
Deirdre, I think that's mostly to do with that web-award voting page, and all the traffic that site is generating. This is a temporary situation; the voting will be all done tomorrow evening.
LOL
LOOK at his little KITTY TOES!!!!!!!!
Hi there, I'm Lenny's (the prosh kitty in the tub) mom. This was his first bath, right after he had been rescued from a parking lot. The vet gave us a special shampoo that we had to let soak on his little body for 10 minutes! He was undernourished and suffered from lots of terrible afflictions, but he is happy and healthy now. Thanks for all of the nice compliments folks have been posting.
@Arminda, Thanks for the update. Lenny is such a great name for this little guy! He is seriously adorable and looks inquisitive and sweet. Glad you rescued him!
I still think "Freshly-Washed Kitteh" would make a
nice cologne spray or a
scented candle.