Okay tomorrow is bath day!

[SeaCat]

No not for me.

Tomorrow is bath day for the cats.

I have everything ready. We have the flea drops stocked up for after. We have the flea shampoo. I have the leather coat and the welding gloves.

We have been spraying and powdering the place for the past several days. I can now walk through the trailer and not be jumped on by fleas.

But the cats are still loaded.

Bubba has been scratching and chewing enough to have created several bald spots.

The drops just didn't work.

It's time for the big guns.

Tomorrow all of them will be bathed, with Flea Shampoo. They will not be allowed out onto the patio afterwards.

When they are dry, they will once again be hit with the drops, then they will be fitted with new Flea collars.

The trailer is being dusted, all rugs are being dusted with the Flea Dust being rubbed in and left for the night before vacuuming.

The feline torture will stop.

I'm sorry but Bubba is the key to it all. He just looks pathetic. He has bald spots.

Cat

 

[Liar]

No not for me.

Tomorrow is bath day for the cats.

Cat

I'm up way to late. This made me snicker.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Maybe you shoud just shave them all and be done with it.

 

[3113]

LOLOLOLOL!

I salute you. Do you also have the first aid kit? Plenty of bandages and ointment for all those scratches?

 

[Guest]

 

[SeaCat]

Well,

We now have three very indignant adult cats, and three kittens wandering around wondering what they did wrong to be so abused. (Okay, we have one kitten trying to hide on my wifes lap and two soaking up the attention on mine, when they're not trying to help me type.)

You should have seen the fleas in the tub after the baths. Good God no wonder they were scratching. The bad news though is even when I was drying them I saw more fleas on them, alive. Because they are still damp I haven't put the drops on them yet, but they do all sport new collars. We shall see if the fleas are still on them tomorrow. If so then it's another round of baths. (Oh fun, I'm still pulling discarded claws out of my riding leathers.) Hopefully though it won't come to that. The Flea Shampoo stays in the fur and is supposed to keep working. Maybe these fleas were just a little bit tougher than the others and will die tonight.

Is there anything quit so pathertic as a soaking wet kitten?

Cat

 

[glynndah]

Pictures for you.

 

[SeaCat]

Pictures for you.

LOLOLOL

I love them.

If I send you a P.M. with my E-Mail can you send me that last one? I want it for my avatar.


Cat

 

[3113]

Is there anything quit so pathertic as a soaking wet kitten?

Nope! Poor kitties.

 

[FallingToFly]

My cat Monty was a water cat. He would crawl in the tub with me, or the shower, and beg to be bathed.

The trick, I've been told, is to start with bathing them when they're babies, and making it a good experience, lots of ear and chin scritches during, lots of treats and praise and cuddling. Zillah and Khaos both were good about baths (I started them on this philosophy) but Monty came with a built in love of water and soap. Oddly enough, I was the only person he would go into the tub and swim around with, but he'd hop in the shower with anyone, much to my mother's dismay.

 

[rachlou]

My burmese cat jasmine is happy to sit on the edge of the bath and watch, even dipping her paw into the warm water occasionally. But as for climbing in and having a swim... oh no! Not a chance. I wouldn't even TRY to bath her, she would scratch the hell out of me.

Fleas are sorted by drops of FRONTLINE on the back of the neck. Its sold here in the uk at Vets. Very effective altho a little pricey. I managed to eradicate fleas a couple of years ago and have had no problem since. This is mainly because the cat is a lazy feline who sleeps 23.5 hours per day and therefore doesn't come into contact with much of anything!

 

[champagne1982]

LOLOLOL

I love them.

If I send you a P.M. with my E-Mail can you send me that last one? I want it for my avatar.


Cat

To copy a pic onto your hard drive, open the attachment and right click on the image, select "Save Picture As..." and note where you save the file to. Mine usually lands in the My Pictures folder inside of My Documents.

 

[3113]

My cat Monty was a water cat. He would crawl in the tub with me, or the shower, and beg to be bathed.

Might have been a Turkish Van (or with Turkish Van genetics). Turkish Vans are known to love water and like to swim. They are among the few cats who will deliberately jump into bathtubs full of water.

The Swimming Cat

http://www.swimmingcats.com/swimming%20cat.jpg

They are not to be confused with their almost identical (in features) cousin, the Turkish Angora, a cat with a similarly fluffy tail and luxurious pelt who does not like water.

 

[FallingToFly]

Might have been a Turkish Van (or with Turkish Van genetics). Turkish Vans are known to love water and like to swim. They are among the few cats who will deliberately jump into bathtubs full of water.

The Swimming Cat

http://www.swimmingcats.com/swimming%20cat.jpg

They are not to be confused with their almost identical (in features) cousin, the Turkish Angora, a cat with a similarly fluffy tail and luxurious pelt who does not like water.

He was a domestic shorthair. Huge, 13 pounder orange and white tabby. He also scared German Shepherds, walked on a leash, and hunted approximately 18 hours a day.

 

[glynndah]

SeaCat: I'd be happy to email that picture to you, but it might be easier for you to do it yourself. I just Googled Images for "wet kitten". That's the second picture right now. It's for Wet Kitten Lager. And I thought raspberry beer was ridiculous!

 

[Huckleman2000]

I've been waiting my whole life for this moment.

I give you all, Monkey washing a cat