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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cat+bath&search=Search

What's amazing is:

1) The number of people who try to wash their cats in short sleeved tshirts.

2) The number of cats that actually seem resigned to their fates.

(PETA, btw, believes humans should not own pets. Their line of argument goes, we should take care of the ones alive now, but you should never buy a kitten or puppy.)

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

PETA can go fcuk themselves. Don't they exterminate a giant amount of dogs and cats every year? One girl I spoke to once said animals would rather be dead than living as pets.

And also, I gave my cat her first and only bath this summer, when she was suffering from the heat one day. Here are pictures of the aftermath.
http://www.daehanmindecline.com/digital/20060805a.html

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

A vet once told me, when my black cat was having serious trouble during a heat wave in Chicago, to rub an ice cube over the cat's body. Cat loved it; came to expect ice cube rub every day. A lot neater and easier than a bath.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

Cats are not all opposed to baths, but most people wait until the cat is mostly grown to try it. I started bathing mine when he was 8 weeks old, now I have trouble keeping him out of the bathtub (an uncomfortable experience- having a creature resembling a wet, leopard spotted, rat swimming towards you).

maya.the.bee · Joined: 12 Sep 2006

I can't remember where I read it, but someone suggested using the toilet to wash cats. Rub them with some soap, throw one in the toilet, stand on the lid, and flush a couple of times. You'd have one very angry kitty when the lid was raised.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

This is what you're talking about.

MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD OF BATHING A CAT

1. Thoroughly clean the toilet.

2. Add the required amount of shampoo to the toilet water, and have both lids lifted.

3. Obtain the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

4. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids (you may need to stand on the lid so that he cannot escape).
CAUTION: Do not get any part of your body too close to the edge, as his paws will be reaching out for any purchase they can find.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a 'power wash and rinse' which I have found to be quite effective.

6. Have someone open the door to the outside and ensure that there are no people between the toilet and the outside door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.

8. The now-clean cat will rocket out of the toilet, and run outside where he will dry himself.

CraigList has a second method too.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:32 am Post subject:

PaperTiger · Joined: 31 May 2005 Location: Ulaanbataar

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

The only reason we bathed her was to cool her off. I think the hairdryer would give her a heart attack. As you can see, she spent a lot of time drying herself.

Back when we got her, my wife was reading a lot about how we'd have to not only bathe the cat regularly, but also take her for haircuts. I told her it was a ripoff. Cat haircuts??!!

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

I bathe mind because he licks his butt and boy parts, then licks himself clean. I don't know about you, but that seems a bit unclean. Besides, as I said before, he likes it.

kimchikowboy · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

You can try the natural way, but you'd probably end up coughing up hairballs for a couple of days. Laughing

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

My cats don't like any kind of grooming unless they're doing it to themselves or each other.

My old cat when I was young actually loved being combed by my mom. She had a very interesting strategy. Vacuuming scared the cat, so after every time she vacuumed, she combed the cat. Soon whenever she got out the vacuum, the cat would run to the steps and wait to be combed. She actually ended up loving the vacuum.