Thread: Well I wont need a shower for a week !!!

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Very pleased to say that have not had any problems with bathing especially as Shimba & Ruby need to be done quite reguarly,Shimba even tries to see if he can get water to come out by himself,love how they look like drowned rats.......



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Ooooooops don't know why Ruby ended up down there......

We do need towels as well as the cats so with you on that one Chris........

LOL they're both looking so p***ed off!!! like "ok, ok I'm not moving but you'll get what's comin' to ya"

JCK, I am very impressed with the pics! how you can bath a cat and photo at the same time is awesome!!!! They look like they are being very good kitties =^..^= I gave Miss Ginger a bath and I had to hold her with one hand and do all the work with the other. That is when I decided she is way to skinny and I need to fatten her up. She looks like a wiener (hot dog)when she is wet! There is no way I could have taken pictures LOL and I was soaked to the skin by the time I got her out.

Hubby was the photographer donnad........x

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Hubby was the photographer donnad........x

So he was the dry one then jckkerrison !! lol

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Hubby was the photographer donnad........x

JCK Good point now I see both of your hands are on the cats lmao They are still being good kitties!

We haven't tried to bath the boys ourselves yet. We chickened out a couple of months ago and had a cat groomer do it. Now they are one year old and 16 pounds and we are afraid, very afraid! Doubt we would be able to take pictures as I think the bath would require 4 hands!!! Maybe we just need to have JCK visit us so she can explain to Buzz and Baxter that cats like baths.

Originally Posted by KimAZ

We haven't tried to bath the boys ourselves yet. We chickened out a couple of months ago and had a cat groomer do it. Now they are one year old and 16 pounds and we are afraid, very afraid! Doubt we would be able to take pictures as I think the bath would require 4 hands!!! Maybe we just need to have JCK visit us so she can explain to Buzz and Baxter that cats like baths.

Kim, that is why I try to give Ginger a bather twice a month, she is not really fond of it and neither am I but maybe one of us will get used to it ;)

Originally Posted by KimAZ

We haven't tried to bath the boys ourselves yet. We chickened out a couple of months ago and had a cat groomer do it. Now they are one year old and 16 pounds and we are afraid, very afraid! Doubt we would be able to take pictures as I think the bath would require 4 hands!!! Maybe we just need to have JCK visit us so she can explain to Buzz and Baxter that cats like baths.

You might actually be surprised, Kim - other cats have a visceral fear of water, try and get them in and you're in for a fight from the word go! Our little Charlotte (RIP) wouldn't get close to the bathtub if you paid her in catnip! and we did try once to give her a bath, we did have a fight on our hands, for all she was frail and little!
But Neevie, when we brought her in, was too young to know how to groom herself properly - her Dam had apparently had an infection and long story short she had to be raised by hand, so we were allowed to take her home her much earlier since she didn't have to be weaned... anyway, we gave her a couple of baths - we were dreading it but were very surprised she didn't mind at all... she didn't perticularly enjoy it, was kind of trying to get out, but more like "right, yeah, ok, I've had enough now I kinda wanna do other things" not the pankicked "noooooooooo!" ;-) The trick is to make the water the right temperature, and not startle them with loud noises like shower running at first I guess... so, run the bath and then pick them up and drop them in gently - see how they react.
She also goes in the bathtub by herself while the water is running - to drink a bit - and her paws dip in cold water. She doesn't like COLD water, but because of the cold part, not the water part.

I guess we should give it a try. They do love water. Buzz is a little more cautious around the tub these days. A month or two ago he turned the water on and managed to fill it 5 or 6 inches before I knew about it. He is such a clumsy boy that in the process of walking around the tub deck to watch the water at different angles, he slipped off into the tub. This tub is a soaking tub and quite deep. He had trouble getting traction to climb out and and he isn't much of a jumper. He was a little panicked but in hindsight maybe it was because he had turned on the cold tap (thank goodness) and didn't like the temperature of the water? When we return to Phoenix, I'm going to buy a kiddy pool for them to explore when they are outside in their tent. To be continued.....