Poor little one… I’m glad this was just a bath for cleaning a mess and not a bath for health reason… I had to wash my sumo cat twice because of… er… bowel disfonction.. It was easy when he was a kitten but he is now a 6,5 kg full grown muscular cat… He doesn’t even fit in the sink anymore…

Arminda, thanks so much for the update! Lenny looks like an absolute doll (he *is* prosh!), and every bit as inquisitive as my own Tuxie. He also looks like he appreciated the bath and being clean again. I hope you and Lenny have many, many happy years together! I’ll second the request for more pictures, too

Truly funny!!!

My mom and dad have an indoor/outdoor cat named Gus (who is always getting into something). One day he walked in covered from head to tail in Mud (don’t ask me how) and went straight to his seat on the couch. Dad grabbed him and then stepped into the shower with him and gave him a bath – traumatizing both of them!! I had a foster kitty that would beg for water to be ran in the tub for him to swim in…

My kitty when I was growing up ended up hiding or stuck somewhere for 24 hours. We freaked and she just appeared at the door.

She had oil/grease something on her back. That was the only time she got a good bath.

We were fearful she would lick whatever it is off her and poison herself.

Arminda – do you have any more pics?

I feel fairly certain that any number of parents who have had rescues (from parking lots, abandoned houses, under greasy cars, etc.) understand all to well, that yes, once in awhile, baths are a necessity. I remember my lil’ furball (19 years ago) being brought home covered in fleas. After two flea baths and holding a squirming, pissed off kitten down while pulling dead fleas off her emaciated body, she’s not needed one since. Well, now that she’s getting on in years, she could probably use one now and then, but at her age, if she’s a little smelly, I’ll live with it rather than put her and myself through that.

You know, he does look pretty pitiful…but he is sitting there without anybody holding him down. My kitty used to get in the shower with me when he was a baby. He loved playing in the water, as long as I didn’t try to pick him up while he was in there…so this little guy might actually be having fun!

Pooteymom-do you have a lock for your door? I’m worried for you (*snerk*)!

Baths are the way of the world for kittehs who get yukky.

Thoroughly investigating the fireplace would certainly be one- I can imagine the teeenytiiint liiittle footprint on the carpeting and the chairs and the clothing and the need for-zee, bathtime for SURE! But do wear sleeves
the back claws can be murderous. Been there- done that, got the tee shirt and the matching umbrella (and the stripes). Now I have a dog.

That little kitty looks like a Dennis the Menace!

My cat would kill me in my sleep.