Splish, splash cats hate bathes

[packman]

[Merlot]

1. Why do people wash cats? mine have all been self-cleaning.

One in a while I might go over them with a damp cloth which the usually like.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. I had an indoor/outdoor cat with a really thick, double coat

that just held all the dirt from outside and brushing didn't get it out--AND he wasn't able to lick it all out--so he got a bath occasionally. The tub water turned nasty grayish brown every time He's passed on now and I miss him, but I don't miss his dirt-magnet fur.

[Phoenix61]

5. Because they go chasing rats at low tide on the bayou.

A particularly rank smell not to mention all the mud.

[Ocelot II]

7. Sometimes they get into bad stuff and either can't get themselves clean

or are covered in something that would make them sick if they tried. I have only had to wash a cat once and it didn't go well. But at least he was clean, and my injuries healed quickly.

[lark]

3. Nothing is angrier than a wet cat

During the bath, dogs who hate water may look sad, cats just get pissed.

One day our daughter was coming home from college, heard the cat screaming, dropped her books and ran into the bathroom yelling stop, thinking the showering cat was being killed. We still tease her about that.

[secondwind]

4. I've had cats before. Never bathed them. They know how to clean themselves.

[csziggy]

10. The only cat I ever washed was a roadside rescue

He'd been found out in the middle of nowhere on the side of a rural highway. He was covered in mud and under the mud were hundreds of fleas.

He was too young for flea treatments (maybe five weeks old if that) and just filthy, so he got a bath. He purred the entire time. I think he liked the attention and that we had fed him before we gave him the bath.

He became my husband's cat and lived with us until we had to put him to sleep at over eighteen years old. Although he was a long haired cat, he never needed a bath again, just brushing which he loved.

[Phoenix61]

6. I had a cat who actually liked getting a bath.

She loved the warm water and all over body massage. She’d actually purr while in the sink. She’d growl at the front door when a strange car pulled up. She was very dog like. She bit my ex-husband the first time she met him. Smart little kitty.

[jpak]

8. LOL!!122

[Fla Dem]

9. Adorable, all of them!

[csziggy]

11. Yes, but if looks could kill, there would be a lot of dead photographers from those cats! nt

[Fla Dem]

12. Yes, that's probably true!

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

13. I had an odd eyed albino Turkish Angora years ago and he needed baths.

His skin was delicate and it was one of the things I had to do to keep fleas down. He was very allergic to fleas.

He was pretty good getting his baths.

[Trueblue1968]

14. those cats REALLY. HATE. YOUR. GUTS. ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!