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

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18th June 2013, 07:47 PM
Chris

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

Sarah and I decided (first mistake) to bath the horses at the weekend ! You know they get all furry during the winter and greasy to so we thought take out the rest of their winter coats and give them a bath ! See that sounded so simple to us to !!! We got the hose out (second mistake) and the shampoo (third mistake) and what did we forget, thats right, to bring a change of clothes with us !!!!! lol Well Logo and Hamish we the two that got a hold of the hose and soaked us, much to their amusement !!! lol Paddy just stood there like he was a king and we were doing his bidding !! lol Jaffa however, decided that perhaps Sarah needed her hair shampooed with horse shampoo ! Oh that was a picture, Sarah is so particular about her hair !!! PMSL Jaffa, not in the good books !! Oh and her being grey it didnt help when she went back into the field that she rolled to her wee hearts content and looked like a bay by the time she stopped !!! lol Never mind, we had a few hacks out and relaxed a little and Brooke had a wee shot on Hamish who is now her pony apparently !!! lol All in all its been a good weekend albeit a wet one !!! lol

So come on guys what are your babies like at bath time !! Do we have the claw marks to prove it !!! lol
18th June 2013, 09:06 PM
jckkerrison

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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........
18th June 2013, 10:16 PM
Chris

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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........

Aw how good are your babies, and you have pictured them at there most vulnerable, how could you do that !!! lmao
19th June 2013, 07:03 AM
Puzzles

Brilliant pics .... just love Ruby's expression!!! :badmood:
19th June 2013, 10:35 AM
Alekto

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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"
19th June 2013, 01:06 PM
donnad

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.
20th June 2013, 06:24 PM
jckkerrison

Hubby was the photographer donnad........x
20th June 2013, 11:03 PM
Chris

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

So he was the dry one then jckkerrison !! lol
20th June 2013, 11:31 PM
donnad

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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!
21st June 2013, 05:46 PM
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!!! :winkwink: Maybe we just need to have JCK visit us so she can explain to Buzz and Baxter that cats like baths.
21st June 2013, 08:55 PM
donnad

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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!!! :winkwink: 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 ;)
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22nd June 2013, 08:29 AM
Alekto

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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!!! :winkwink: 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.
22nd June 2013, 06:10 PM
KimAZ

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.....
22nd June 2013, 08:07 PM
Alekto

ooooh that would be a great idea! take pictures if it works please!!! :-)
23rd June 2013, 09:46 PM
Ginacool

My girl Angel jumps in the bath when a human is in it. She circles the outside, climbs on to your stomach then drops down into the water. Now there's a good girl, lol. She did it once when my niece was staying over for the weekend. She was in the bathroom having a bath, humming one minute and screaming the next. We'd forgotten to tell her about Angel...... I don't know who was more shocked Niamh or the cat!
It was so funny. I don't think anyone will forget that one in a hurry.
25th June 2013, 04:02 PM
Chris

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Originally Posted by KimAZ

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.....

That sounds like a brilliant idea a kiddy pool, like Alekto would love to see some pictures of them exploring it ! pretty please !! lol
25th June 2013, 04:04 PM
Chris

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Originally Posted by Ginacool

My girl Angel jumps in the bath when a human is in it. She circles the outside, climbs on to your stomach then drops down into the water. Now there's a good girl, lol. She did it once when my niece was staying over for the weekend. She was in the bathroom having a bath, humming one minute and screaming the next. We'd forgotten to tell her about Angel...... I don't know who was more shocked Niamh or the cat!
It was so funny. I don't think anyone will forget that one in a hurry.

Thats what you call a furry surprise !!! lol But an easy to bath cat, and I bet she smells wonderful all the time !