Is that a Japanese video? I know the Japanese take baths like that with the washcloth on their head. Anyway kitty looks very relaxed and contented.
It’s a myth that all cats hate water, some of them love it.
And you *can* leave it with your other bathing items, but then you’re just buckass nekkid while getting in and out. The washcloth provides the all important psychological modesty cover while walking to and from the bathing pool, but while you’re in the pool, you can’t let it soak in the communal water, so you fold it up really neatly and balance it on your head.
(As a redheaded giantess in rural Japan, the modesty cloth was very important, so that everyone didn’t gawp at my flashily adorned privates as I was making for the tub. In my little town, people never ceased to marvel that the rug matched the drapes.)
i’m a fellow fellow tall redhead who also lived in asia for a year, but i only went to the baths a few times. i couldn’t take the scrutiny! it was enough that grown women would come up and pet my arm hair and freckles on the subway, children would freely grab and fondle my hair, and old men i didn’t know would come within inches of my face staring into my eyes! it was just curiosity but quite unnerving at the same time…
…Eez a verrry verrry teeny yellow duckie; but I noticed it too. Anybody else who perceives that this particular yellow duckie’s mouth moves; and that it seems to be quacking @ Senor Gato???
it’s hard to believe her little bitty paws could hold enough water to drip for like five minutes! like a couple of magic sponge paws, or faucet paws maybe…
Isn’t that the same kitteh who a few months ago was brought to us lying completely motionless in his bath for several minutes? I thought I recognized the same modestly duck.
Or maybe it’s just that all Japanese kittehs are rendered equally powerless by baths.
What is dees majical aquatic kitteh breed!? I needs wun for mi double requirements of daily kewtness infusion combined wif deadlee kitteh allergeez. MUST NEEDS!
NOT COOL. My mother suffered from clinical depression and she would spend all day standing in a giant bucket with a washcloth on top of her head staring into the distance as her hands dangled over the side of the bucket and dripped water. I’m never coming back to CO again. Or at least not for another ten minutes or so.
I’m sorry about your mom, but as a Japanese-speaker I feel compelled to point out that Fukutan (this cat) is one of those “bizarre” cats who enjoys hot baths. Apparently he got the feel for it one day and started to take regular baths for the warmth and relaxation. It ain’t depressed. The owner treats it very well and it’s also got an IQ rivaling Maru’s.
I just need one little meow or squeek and I will come running to your home and rescue you. Then we can plan a sneak attack on your humans tonight. A little poo in the toe of a favorite shoe or a little pile of something to step in near the coffee pot. Or my favorite hair balls in the tub’s drain.
I agree with Fegli. I bought into the whole sadness thing…until I began to realize that kitty is in a trance from sheer relaxation. It’s like those baby buckets. Works like a charm. Love the addition of washcloth though. Lol!
I’m still amazed that the cat stayed in the bucket of water. That goes to show you he must be liking it because cats rarely do anything they absolutely do not want to do.
I think the washcloth is to rinse kitty’s head with out pouring water over it? Therefore getting everything wet and clean but not half-drowning poor kitty.
such a cute sad kitty though. *sigh* Now I want to train my little girl to like baths. Every time she’s tried them before she paddles in terror and scratches anyone nearby.
Cats do NOT like things lying on them at all… I had a friend who as a joke would lay a banana skin on her cat’s back. It was amazing how that cat would FREEZE into position and not move until the skin was off. It must be a survival thing, fearing predators. So I think kitty is SCARED not bored or depressed… but I hope I’m wrong.
I used to be under the rule of this cat, SamKitty who lived in my house. At one point, my daughter also had a sweet, adorable little grey dwarf hamster. SamKitty was horrified of the hamster. My daughter put the hammie on SamKitty’s back one day and SamKitty totally froze in the manner you’re describing. Sammie HATED that hamster for some reason.
*crap* I. Am. So. Depressed. *crap* There is water dripping off my paws. (which are soggy. and wet. ) (HUGE sigh). Um. The thing. *crap* The thing. On my head. Why? Why is that there?. *ow* It has a picture on it. *sigh* of, I think, a hamster. on my head. Please help me breathe. *ooof*
I would like to express two responses to this video:
1. To Sharpy and the Qte Assurance Department:
“WHEW!!! Such a relief to know that it has been approved for safe viewing!!!”
and
2. Regarding the Deep Sleep Phase of a mess o’ kittayns: They all look as though they’re recuperating from a MAJOR keg party.
THEY BE SLEEPIN’ DEEPLY !!!!!
(However, one observes motion of breathing in several, so one assumes that they all are likely to survive the angst from which they’re recuperating)
I really admire the Mommeh Kitteh’s technique. When she returns to the Mess o’ Kittayns, she simply leans over slightly [and I believe that her eyes might even be closed at this point] and pokes out her tongue and just randomly manages to smooth whichever squirmy, meowing bit of fur that wriggles under her head. Since all the kittens are moving about, various different ones end up getting groomed.
Kitty is plotting revenge. Sleep light.
Someone get that poor kitten a hair dryer!
Sad (:
Bet the water is warm though
Is the kitty sleeping with its eyes closed? It is so still. Why doesn’t it jump out? Lost the will to live? Funny little thing.
OMG, that’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen *goes away and
)
No need to be sad… Fukutan likes hanging out in the bath.
LOL! Is that a modesty duck, or is he just …
Ah, forget it. What a sweet little fella. I likes long hot baffs, too, kitteh.
Is that a Japanese video? I know the Japanese take baths like that with the washcloth on their head. Anyway kitty looks very relaxed and contented.
It’s a myth that all cats hate water, some of them love it.
yea, what’s up with that washcloth on the head thing, anyway?
Seriously, it’s because there’s no other place to put it. You’re not allowed to put the towel into the water, since it’s shared by everyone.
And you *can* leave it with your other bathing items, but then you’re just buckass nekkid while getting in and out. The washcloth provides the all important psychological modesty cover while walking to and from the bathing pool, but while you’re in the pool, you can’t let it soak in the communal water, so you fold it up really neatly and balance it on your head.
(As a redheaded giantess in rural Japan, the modesty cloth was very important, so that everyone didn’t gawp at my flashily adorned privates as I was making for the tub. In my little town, people never ceased to marvel that the rug matched the drapes.)
i’m a fellow fellow tall redhead who also lived in asia for a year, but i only went to the baths a few times. i couldn’t take the scrutiny! it was enough that grown women would come up and pet my arm hair and freckles on the subway, children would freely grab and fondle my hair, and old men i didn’t know would come within inches of my face staring into my eyes! it was just curiosity but quite unnerving at the same time…
Bwhaha! My drapes and carpet have turned into blinds and a throw rug
Wait…what? Washcloth on the head?? Do elaborate…
Yess, I noticed that too. Also, the cat is abnormally placid and adorable, therefore it must be from japan.
that kitty looks pretty content to me!
Kids ! They learn the “stink eye ” so young these days !!!
I would not want to be unconscious in THAT house for a good long time .
Depressed or contemplating the vagaries of life?
Or just regretting that last martini?
Anyway, he perked up at the end!
At least he had a rubber ducky to keep him company. You can’t be too depressed when you have a rubber ducky beside you.
…Eez a verrry verrry teeny yellow duckie; but I noticed it too. Anybody else who perceives that this particular yellow duckie’s mouth moves; and that it seems to be quacking @ Senor Gato???
I wonder if anyone actually looks!!
Looks more like a little platypus to me!
That was beyond mean.
I agree!! Poor little kitty.
Yeah, how dare someone MAKE that poor kitty stay in that bucket.
it’s hard to believe her little bitty paws could hold enough water to drip for like five minutes! like a couple of magic sponge paws, or faucet paws maybe…
they are made of SHAMWOWs!!!!
Look closely, the bucket is full and a ducky is floating behind. It’s little paws were filling right back up.
If you look closely, the bucket is full to the brim with water. The kitty’s paws are just wicking it out.
nah. she’s clearly making it happen through sheer mind-power!
must be how the bucket got filled up
Isn’t that the same kitteh who a few months ago was brought to us lying completely motionless in his bath for several minutes? I thought I recognized the same modestly duck.
Or maybe it’s just that all Japanese kittehs are rendered equally powerless by baths.
Awww. Bath paralysis. Poor li’l dears!
I think it’s waiting for an aftershock!!!
Am I clean yet? How about now? Now? Now?
“i just peed.”
thanks for sharing!!
Was that a commercial at the end?
Hope the kitty is not drugged…
That’s what I was afraid of, too… the cat seems so lethargic and out of it.
What is dees majical aquatic kitteh breed!? I needs wun for mi double requirements of daily kewtness infusion combined wif deadlee kitteh allergeez. MUST NEEDS!
Seriously, I’m thinking absence seizure.
NOT COOL. My mother suffered from clinical depression and she would spend all day standing in a giant bucket with a washcloth on top of her head staring into the distance as her hands dangled over the side of the bucket and dripped water. I’m never coming back to CO again. Or at least not for another ten minutes or so.
I’m sorry about your mom, but as a Japanese-speaker I feel compelled to point out that Fukutan (this cat) is one of those “bizarre” cats who enjoys hot baths. Apparently he got the feel for it one day and started to take regular baths for the warmth and relaxation. It ain’t depressed. The owner treats it very well and it’s also got an IQ rivaling Maru’s.
I think JME was kidding.
But good info about Fukutan. Thanks for that! I’m always curious to know the backstory of a critter doing something…unusual.
I once bathed in a horse trough when I was depressed.
That works, for me.
poor kittehs had a tough day. me too kitteh… me too….
I just need one little meow or squeek and I will come running to your home and rescue you. Then we can plan a sneak attack on your humans tonight. A little poo in the toe of a favorite shoe or a little pile of something to step in near the coffee pot. Or my favorite hair balls in the tub’s drain.
All I can say is them peeps will need to check out their shoes before they puts them on tonight. Just sayin’………….
That was so sad I couldn’t watch it all. Thank heavens for the cat/dolphin video after, which cheered me up considerably.
You probably could have done ok with just a still photo of this one.
a worthwhile, constructive point, indeed.
It *was* a still photo for the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
I think they made it a video in order to demonstrate that the kitty is content and making no move to get out.
I agree with Fegli. I bought into the whole sadness thing…until I began to realize that kitty is in a trance from sheer relaxation. It’s like those baby buckets. Works like a charm. Love the addition of washcloth though. Lol!
I’m still amazed that the cat stayed in the bucket of water. That goes to show you he must be liking it because cats rarely do anything they absolutely do not want to do.
I feel like that today too little one :3
It is a kitty spa day.. with a favorite bath toy and luxourios wash cloth.. only missing new age music, and scented candles and massage rocks.
That kitten be irritable….
Arrrrggghh that she be.
This kitten needs a hug STAT and I am just the woman for the job!
Same here, Sar
It’s the little kitty with the modesty platypus!
Seriously, the kitty must like it….
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The handkerchief is ridonkulous. Makes the kitten look like a (dripping) little old lady.
So nobody watched this long enough to see Soulja Boy’s appearance at the very end, eh?
I think Pinchy did…(at 3.20 pm)
I did too.
Because watching a cat in a warm bath relaxing is… well very relaxing. Then i was shoked out of my reverie
I think the washcloth is to rinse kitty’s head with out pouring water over it? Therefore getting everything wet and clean but not half-drowning poor kitty.
such a cute sad kitty though. *sigh* Now I want to train my little girl to like baths. Every time she’s tried them before she paddles in terror and scratches anyone nearby.
Kitteh has clearly had a hard day at the office and needs a relaxing soak in the tub. He only looks so sad because he ran out of Mr Bubble.
So cute. So jealous. My lil Japanese kitty won’t onsen. *pout*
She will fetch and come to her name, though.
And high-five. There’s something magical in the Japanese kitty gene pool, methinks.
Like this?
What a well-trained cat! My cat was watching that going, “Oh HAIL no.”
Yeah, this is the same cat, Fukutan, which is in the bucket bath in the picture. Smart, isn’t it?
most cooperative kitteh EVAH!!!! And pretty, too !!!
Aha! A scottish fold? I suspect that Japan is again responsible for this scrumptious Mr. McDripllepaw
After sleeping on it….I think these humans may have slipped a Mickey (mouse) in the saucer of milk and now kitteh is totally mellow.
Fukutan LOVES bathtime!
“veddy Inter-estingk!!!”
He is saying,”come on man, lets get out of here, one more aftershock and the roof is coming in on the both of us!”
or “whoa, where did all your fur go, Dad? You should probably get a modesty platypus like mine.”
LOL Daddy Why you drain tub.. i was just getting comftabuls
At 2:28: “Thank Ceiling Cat for baths!”
Le Sigh.
Hmmm, erm, *why* is that kitten in a bucket???
Because he likes it. Read the comments and see the video’s
Hey M, only just woke up here in Lanzarote time zone, you know meee!!! Reading comments now, hehe.
Cats do NOT like things lying on them at all… I had a friend who as a joke would lay a banana skin on her cat’s back. It was amazing how that cat would FREEZE into position and not move until the skin was off. It must be a survival thing, fearing predators. So I think kitty is SCARED not bored or depressed… but I hope I’m wrong.
the funny thing about cats…. they’re all different. So you can’t really lump them into one generalization.
I used to be under the rule of this cat, SamKitty who lived in my house. At one point, my daughter also had a sweet, adorable little grey dwarf hamster. SamKitty was horrified of the hamster. My daughter put the hammie on SamKitty’s back one day and SamKitty totally froze in the manner you’re describing. Sammie HATED that hamster for some reason.
Nobody mentioned that the kitty is a Scottish Fold! A bery, bery, bery, o so bery relaxed scottish fold….
This cat is so emo. You’ve been pwned, Emo Pony!
So I’m thinking that this is a good time to create a “WTF?” tag…
*crap* I. Am. So. Depressed. *crap* There is water dripping off my paws. (which are soggy. and wet. ) (HUGE sigh). Um. The thing. *crap* The thing. On my head. Why? Why is that there?. *ow* It has a picture on it. *sigh* of, I think, a hamster. on my head. Please help me breathe. *ooof*
Don’t be fooled. That is a Calgon Take Me Away look if ever there was one.
Fukutan has his own blog here
http://fukutan5.blog45.fc2.com/
Wow. I read all the way down here and no one has used the word CATATONIC.
that’s because 260o Oakley is not at home today.
Ah. Well, of course.
this video has been reviewed and cleared for safe viewing by the Qte Assurance department.
I would like to express two responses to this video:
1. To Sharpy and the Qte Assurance Department:
“WHEW!!! Such a relief to know that it has been approved for safe viewing!!!”
and
2. Regarding the Deep Sleep Phase of a mess o’ kittayns: They all look as though they’re recuperating from a MAJOR keg party.
THEY BE SLEEPIN’ DEEPLY !!!!!
(However, one observes motion of breathing in several, so one assumes that they all are likely to survive the angst from which they’re recuperating)
ok, I have to add a PS.
I really admire the Mommeh Kitteh’s technique. When she returns to the Mess o’ Kittayns, she simply leans over slightly [and I believe that her eyes might even be closed at this point] and pokes out her tongue and just randomly manages to smooth whichever squirmy, meowing bit of fur that wriggles under her head. Since all the kittens are moving about, various different ones end up getting groomed.
Nice motion conservation, Mum!!!!
All I can figure is that the Japanese give their kittehs powerful drugs.
Don’t tigers love to swim? If so, that explains a lot about this video…
Flea dip?
That look at 2:38… OMG! tooo saaaaahhhhddddd. But I guess some kittens like to hang out in the bath… sad, AND cute.