First-time bath-taker “Coco” is also experiencing first-time paw floomfage. She’s got, like, built-in leg warmers, Girls!Jealous!?
Nadia—you’re a maniac.
Check out the paw floomf on this kitteh
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1) I am amazed the camera is still whole
2) I am amazed at kitteh sitting somewhat calmly
3)squooosh as I hugz wet floompy kitteh!
OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU GAVE YOUR CAT A BATH! THAT’S SO MEEEEAN! I ALSO CAN’T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE WILL TAKE THIS COMMENT SERIOUSLY! BUT WHAT CAN YA DO! KTHXBYE!
I dunno.
Coco’s the one with the leg warmers, so doesn’t that make her the maniac? Dancing like she’s never danced before?
Looks like sneaker-freshener kitty needed laundering!
Sheesh Theo.
That’s not a human giving the kitteh a bath it’s the kitteh from the previous post giving itself a bath after getting a whiff of exactly what oderhz absorbing means.
(note how neatly I’ve tied the last 3 posts together) LOL
Wow, a rate sighting of a Clydesdale kitten.
Time to break out the Bud!
Floof
LOL Theo!
And those wet floomfy paws look like they’d be really heavy – who was it that wanted more Star Wars AT-AT references?
Oops – I mean rare sighting, although this kitteh does rate high.
Who here gives their kitty a bath? I grew up w. kittys, currently live with a kitty and have lots of kitty experience; I have never, ever bathed a kittay. What gives?
AliceT: SODDEN floof!
I have had on occassion due to flea infestation outbreak and other health related reasons have had to give kittehs baths.
I’ve heard some do sometimes like the water but not in my kitteh history. Major DO NOT WANT!
I once had to bathe a kitteh because of phleas. No one enjoyed the experience, I can assure you.
Incontinent kittehs also need baths.
[TEH MASKD ANTI-PRUFREEDAR STRYKS AGEN!]
Hmmmm. Things are so backwards in my family. My cat actually LOVES baths and tries to “swim” everytime I take one…….I suppose the kitteh defenders would probably give me an award for not letting her get in…….
snort
Thank you Darryl’s Mamma! I have been meaning to post that ever since I saw the first cat undergoing a bath on this website. However cute the picture may be, you do NOT, I repeat you do NOT need to give your cat a bath. Unless it fell in a bucket of goo or something, or indeed an outbreak of fleas but otherwise they are perfectly capable of keeping themselves clean!
yep, kittens with fleas. that’s the only time I’ve ever done it.
Not something I’d want to repeat…
THEO DON’T YELL SO LOUD> YU SCREERED ME.
Starting to think I’ve got a double agent on my hands! I knew she looked at me with those shifty eyes for a reason…..
I had a cat who was otherwise healthy and mostly sane and he just didn’t give two shakes about bathing himself. And he had terrible dandruff. And liked to roll around in dirt whenever he got the chance. So he got bathed. And was a black polydactyl cat like this one and this picture really reminded me of him.
Okay, everyone in your bestest Nancy Sinatra voices:
“These floomfs were made for walking,
And that’s just what they’ll do,
One of these days these floomfs are gonna walk all over you…”
Excellent job.
As you were…
some aminals, kitty-kitties included, are better at keeping themselves hygienic than others
so then nature (read: a human) has to intercede to keep unsavory ‘crumbs’ from being dispersed
ahhhh.
Ozzie and Coco could take a baff together and there could be even more paw-leg floofage(?).
sweet lil kitty and such a good girl too. sittin in the water like that! OMG
The cat bathing controversy always makes me laff. Peeps are so authoritative, Never bathe your cats people, never! And then there are like 50 excep-shons to the rule, well, ok, if they gots fleas, or ok, if they are gooey, or ok, if they just smell bad. Why would ANYONE ever bathe a cat unless they had to? Then there is my cat, Obi Wan Nairobi. I shut them in the laundry room, because I was painting floors. I knew they would run across it, and then put paint paw prints all over town. So I put them in the laundry room for their own good. Nairobi put her paws underneath the door, swished it all in the paint, and danced on the laundry appliances. Should I have not bathed her, and let her lick off paint? Oh well, yes, if she’s painty…
so CBF – you have three cats? 1)Obi 2)Wan 3)Nairobi???
LOL, CBF!
Not much of a rule, is it, when the exceptions outnumber the instances when it applies.
i can actually hear the *poooooomfffffff!* of the expanding kitteh paws when they hit the water.
CeeJoe — no, but I bet all the paintprints made it seem that way
I’se confuzzled… she refers to “them”… but it’s only one kitteh?
Personally, I just think *everyone* should have multiple cats!
)
What if your cat was skunked? Would you just lick him off or bathe him?
t(ed.) is correct- two cats. The Stupid Bup, and Obi Wan Nairobi. She came with the Nairobi, and it was immediately decided that since Nairobi rhymes with Kenobi, her name needed prequels.
Not so good wif teh ol grammer todai…
That kitty looks like I feel! C’mere, sweetness… I’ll snuggle you in a nice warm towel until we both purr.
I agree, no harm in bathing a cat if they need it…or when they get sprayed by a skunk…I mean they are not wool sweaters…they won’t shrink.
That’s funny Deb wool sweaters. If their afraid of shrinkage they should put a little woolite in.
Funny, though… they LOOK shrunken when wet.
Theo we are still on the subject of cats right?
[aaaargh... - Ed.]
Yes, but they floof right back up after some cuddles in a warm towel. That is what this little one is looking for…where’s my warm towel?
Very funny. I could never do that.
Probably the “don’t bathe the cat” is self protection since MOST don’t like it. I did have to partially bathe a cat once when ..er .. something literally scared the p**p out of him and his whole back quarters were covered in brown “stuff”. I didn’t think he should wash it off and certainly didn’t want him in the house like that. So plunked his rear into a sink of warmish water but he DID NOT WANT. Anyway the point is I doubt anyone’s giving the cat a bath for lack of something better to do. It would only be when required for the health/comfort of the cat or human family. Yes?
Yes, the floofing works for both…
Joodster – You win! Love your song!
Phery phunny, Pheo.
Is there any special way to floof? Slow fast or does it really matter?
OMG!!! I give my cat a bath every single day… whether she wants it or not.. Thank goodness I finally read this site to get educated and skooled by people who are so smart and know much more than me! It’s amazing I can walk across the street sometimes without being hit by a car. Thank you Internet Educators! Thank youuuuuuu!
jabbadoo YOU WHAT!!!
why would you possibly give your cat a bath everyday?
THEO THEO come see! I’m telling.
too funny jabbadoo…is it Friday yet…the natives are getting restless…
jabb, since you have no clue to lie what soever I have sent over a boy scout to make sure you get across the street safely. And as for the cat I have sent over a toupee which he obviously needs since you’ve washed all the floof off.
And since I’m so stupid and can’t spell the word life maybe I need to get one. A tutor that is.
I will admit to occasional fantasies of bathing my tabby, strictly for medical reasons, of course. He suffers from, or rather he has and I suffer from, FHD (feline humility deficit, such a tragedy). I do believe a bath might be therapeutic. /shifty eyes followed by evil grin/
I won’t give my kitty a bath simply because I am too afraid to! The only time I was in the presence of attempted kitty bathing, the bather ended up in the hospital with blood poisoning! No kidding!
The bather being the human … the kitty was the bathee …
The kitty was fine …
pheas – Feline Humility Deficit… that is *too* funny!
I gave my kitteh a bath once and I still have the scars to proove it.
I don’t give my cats baths, but, I wipe them with wet towel from time to time, especially in the summer to get rid of excess hair, and dust. They don’t mind it at all, I think they like the cooling effect. One of them likes to stand underneath running water for some odd reason.
I have bathed a cat once. I had just adopted the poor thing, and had taken him to the vet, and he erm…had explosive diarrhea in his carrier on the way home. He was not at all happy with me, but he was cleaner. I, on the other hand, was shredded.
Awwww, poor drownded kitteh! Methinks she is pondering revenge.
I bathe my dirty cats every week. Of course, they have no floof to speak of, so they need it. Little grease balls.
Still, even after six years, it’s not that popular:
http://redzilla.vox.com/library/video/6a00c2252570aaf21900d4144dbbcb3c7f.html
it look like she’s wearing tiny marabou slippers ! me-owwwwwe !
Oh dear…
Looks like ugg boots to me!
hahaha….CBF. Having rules and a million exceptions is in English, too, yes? Maybe it’s just natural for us to have a rule with every possible exception? hehehe
WE had a beautiful white and black kitty named tuffy with three inch long hair who was an excellent kitty at cleaning himself buttt no one could have licked all that hair clean he loved to roll in the dirt and we live in california Almost year round fleas and it was before all the nifty flea medicine they have now.
Anyway he got baths about once a month spring thru fall and once in awhile in the winter too. I used to use human shampoe(herbal essence) on him and then a flea dip for cats. it worked really good. And he had really healthy skin no dandruff.
Love the floomf! I gave my kitten a bath the day she came home as she was rescued from the farm and was a dirty dirty mess. Then, she got a bath 5 weeks later when she fell into the toliet just after I stood up but before I flushed. Neither of us enjoyed either bath, but it had to be done.
whenever i shower or take a bath, my two cats become instantly mezmerized by the water. they walk between the shower curtin and the liner and try to catch the water running down on the inside. and whenever i take a bath, max always lets 1/2 of his tail get sopping wet by letting it dangle too pracariously close to the water level. that said, one drop on their heads, and they run meowling like i’ve dowsed them full on. then they hide and only come out when i shake the treat bottle, and are all “i GUESS i can eat this, but i remember and i will sooo get you back!!!!!!” which they do, jumping from a high spot on the dresser to my tummy 8 feet away at 4am. good times.
To add my 2 cents to the bath commentroversy, I do bathe both my cats, about every 2 months or so, and have since they were kittens. Nikki needs it because her hair is rather greasy and she doesn’t get all her “spots” being a lovable but obese 20 lbs (yes they are both on light food and I encourage them to exercise through play-Tasha does, but Nikki is content to watch Tasha). I started Tasha off because of fleas, her being an foundling kitten. I know when to do “the deed” when my eyes start itching. No, I don’t do it for FUN, it is a maintenence thing, just like cleaning the litter box or washing the food and water bowls. It’s just part of the tradeoff of having 2 lovable purr critters around to snorgle.
Haha I /am/ jealous of her built-in leg warmers. It would be much more convenient.
hehehe…renae, glad you liked the song.
Floomf.
It’s a great word, and a great thing.
Floomf.
cat bathing experience:
Durgul- stray covered with fleas, and “road crud”… bathed his teeny self in the sink about 3x before the water didn’t turn black.
Megumi- 2 times, fell in commode as a kitten. fell into my bath and I was afraid that she’d get sick licking bubbles off herself.
Seimei- 3x thus far. toilet leap right after mommy stood up.
One fall in bath, no bubbles so it wasn’t a crisis. Third was an attack by a Squish pillow that snuck up and exploded behind him (he says)… those little dots inside, they are very very sticky-to-kitty and NOT biodegradable… so he got another bath. so far 4 months and NO more baths needed.
My kitties need baths every so often. They dont like it, but its not a life threatening experience either. Mainly loud protests from my fat cat, and my little kitty just sits and squirms and tryes to get away. My fat cat is declawed in front so no danger there, but my little kitty has all claws, however, she never uses them during bath time. I actually had to give my little kitty a bath recently because she started smelling like pee. I really dont want to snuggle with a cat that smells like pee.
OK so more than the photo…the WORD! The genius of “floomf” — there is no other word that could possibly describe what’s going on there. Perfection!
She got caught with her kitty-pants around her ankles.
I always knew this phenomenom existed. I’m glad someone put a name on it.
Cats are weird. How is it that a Bengal tiger *soaks* in a pond like a water buffalo but a domestic cat won’t even get its paws wet? Look at these hydromaniac big cats:
http://norlingimages.com/media/watertiger.jpg
http://web.missouri.edu/~umcsnrtigers/images/tigerswamp.jpg
Spleeshe splashe: http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/67/59/23345967.jpg
Swimmingks: http://writingsucks.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/29/tiger_swimming.jpg
ATTACK! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/photogalleries/wip-week31/images/primary/tiger-big.jpg
Pool Party: http://www.savethetigerfund.org/AM/Images/CATT/Tiger_bath.jpg
Like I said … cats are weird.
Oh, and here’s a site I found that’s chock-full of cute pics: http://cuteaddict.com/
Teho/ Meg, see if you can add it to the “More! More! More!” Section. It’s worth eet!!!
ahahah I <3 bathcatroversies!
I had two cats. One was a siamese mix that absolutely loved swimming and would constantly want to climb into a full bathtub or sink, the other a huge tux that hated water. The irony was the tux was a bit of a chubber when I got her and wasn’t able to keep her nether regions very clean, while the siamese was as tidy as Martha Stewart.
When I 1st got my kitteh, he pooped in the carrier and it got all over his hiney and back. He needed to be bathed. His only bath in 9 years! Let’s all tell stories about bathing kittehs! Go!
My kitteh needs bathing about ever two months….ok…just down the center of her back. She is classified as a “compact cat”, thus some what “square” with a shortish neck….VERY pretty and cute, though. Anyway, she has a hard time reaching around to clean down her spine. Thus it can get greasy and flakey. She also has LONG hair. Bless her…she does work really hard while grooming!
you know you’re kitty is too fat when…
he sits on your lap and it disappears like a toaster under a toaster cozy:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/372223847_8186b1d766.jpg
I think the kitty had its widdle wegs shaveded… what do you all think? That would cause ridiculous floof in the tub.
I guess, since you’re all asking, I’ll admit to giving 4 kitty baths in my lifetime. 3 widdle kittens we rescued from the parking lot at the DQ were covered head to toeses in fleas and other icky things and once when my elderly cat Noland had an “accident” on the way to the vet. All bathings went quite well and Noland even seemed to appreciate it, of course the alternative was being covered in poo.
Can I add, just because it’s too cute, the three kitties were never found homes, and stayed with us for their extremely short lives
(long story, very horribly, wretchedly sad) 2 boys, one girl named. An, Noy and Ing.
I miss all my kitties, had 10 at one time. *sob* *sob* – can’t think about it anymore.
Here are 2 of them that I happen to have uploaded
http://www.thecaboose.net/carrie/Noland.jpg
http://www.thecaboose.net/carrie/midget2.jpg
Sorry for the long post
Theo – thank you
You should submit this to stuffonmycat.com SOMCwetcats@gmail.com
OMG! It’s Carrie:
An, Noy and Ing
BEST CAT NAMES EV-AR!!!
I suddenly thought of the Monty Python “Interesting People” sketch in which the “Shouting” man protested BUT I’M MORE INTERESTING THAN A WET PUSSYCAT!
For a while in my checkered past I showed Maine Coon Cats at Cat Shows. This required the dreaded ’show bath’. All kitties had to have their claws clipped prior to submersion to protect all involved. Today it looks like I used to string barb-wire fences, but the scars are fading…. Some of the cats were sullenly ‘good’ in the bath and some were actively impossible (and those big Maine Coons are not easy to convince). I have not bathed a cat for 4 years now and hope the need doesn’t arise anytime soon! But ya gotta do what ya gotta do when fleas and crud happen.
That kitty is being so well-behaved! And love the paw floomfage. Had to bathe my solid white, deaf Turkish Angora a few times after he:
1. Explored the fireplace
2. Explored the paint thinner
3. Had some bowel troubles
He was so scared each time that he wrapped his paws around my neck and just held onto me–no scratching or biting, thankfully. I even used pretty smelling shampoo and conditioner on him and blew him dry with a hairdryer–being deaf, he didn’t mind the noise, and actually enjoyed the warmth (don’t worry, the heat was set on low). He did, however, absolutely hate smelling like a flowerbed from the shampoo.
Oh, and my cats also enjoy standing in the shower while I bathe. Just on the edges, mind you, not in the part where the water is. Once I was taking a bath and one of my cats (who loves playing in the dry bathtub) jumped in–the water was so still that she didn’t realize there was any water in the tub! Never seen a cat jump so fast after she discovered the tub was full of water.
Nevair mind the floofy feetses – I LOVE the muzzlepuff.
Awww poor kitty. Mine would scratch my eyes out, tbh.
I have, thankfully, never had to bathe the kitty. She does enjoy sitting on the post-shower floor, all wet. And she drinks from the faucet. But the one time she was there and i turned the shower on, there was a wet kitty rocket.
“wet kitty rocket” XD
re: blow drying a wet cat, my cat used to get very wet outside and then come in and he loved to be blow-dried. He wasn’t deaf but didn’t mind the noise at all. Low heat, constant moving, don’t blow face.. oh yes he was haaappppy warmed up kitteh.
Wet cats are never funny. Nor cute.
Sometimes kitties needs baths, it’s true. My little kitty got ring worm and got regular baths for a few weeks with fungicidal shampoo.
If you are using shampoo on the cat, be very careful. Someone I know, who is not a cat person at all, for some reason bathed her (indoor) cat daily. One time she got shampoo in its eye, and now it is blind in that eye.
The guy that renovated my house set up a heating vent under the enclosed bath tub.
So when the heat is on, the tub is toasty.
In the winter the house tends to be cold, so the tub is a cat magnet.
About once a year one will pop in without looking, and it is wet cat explosion time.
It is almost unbelievable how much water a cat can absorb in a single, instantaneous bounce into and out of the tub — it usually takes three towels to get the runway dry again.
Oh, and it’s always my fault too.
Sometimes people bathe their kittehs monthly to get rid of the dander. It really helps keep the mildly allergic at bay, and if you start very early (when kitteh is a kitteneh- assuming kitteneh is docile), they don’t really mind it at all.
That is definitely a kitteneh. I don’t think it’s paw, floomf- I think it just has huge paws to grow into!
cute pic. did ur kitty enjoy his bath??
Hello? can you say “Polydactil”?
I knew you could.
thats my kitten
Coco actually jumps in the shower or bath with me all the time.
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