I just loved this. It brought back memories of having to bath four cats. It was during my 'no dangerous chemicals for cats and kids stage' when I decided to use herbs to rid the animals of fleas, er, just the cats not the kids.
First catch all the cats and cage them. Boil up the herbs, rosemary was one that I remember and let them cool but not cold. Then pick out the cat most likely to rip your arms to shreds and that's the first in the tub. If we left that one to last, fear was magnified to terminator strength and we had no hope of avoiding lethal injuries.
It was one to hold and one to wash and both to scream abuse when the claws got moving. Then it was a big fluffy towell, usually mine and the cat was handed to one of the kids to dry it off while the next victim went in the bath. After they were all washed, I used the hair dryer to finish off the fur. I wasn't stupid, I made the kids hold the cats for this. The combing out of dead fleas was supposed to be next but the herbs weren't up to killing off the industrial strength vermin this lot used to pick up.
It wasn't long before the spot on the back of the neck lotion came on the market and I didn't care how much it cost (it was plenty). We flea bombed the house, the cats, the dogs and the kids. Flea free at last, then the kids brought home lice.
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There's nothing more sad looking than a wet cat!
Girls, you must visit this site, I have never seen so many hateful stares from cats.
Cats and dogs pray to the inventor of Spot On and so do their owners, well anyone old enough to remember flea powder.
It wasn't so much the dogs and cats Andrew, but the fleas in the carpet. I saw a program once which showed the fleas activating at approaching footsteps and swarming up the legs for a bloodfest. The flea powder was out that night.
Link, that is brilliant, you must ask Davo for his tome on how to give pills to a cat. Just in case you don't know, it is a kid thing to put the cat in the toilet, don't ask me why, they just do.
ROFLGO, Link.
Holy hell, It's 'mophing' into a GREMLIN, Im not fond of cats as it is, now I will definately be having night mares!
Zoe xxx
Zoe, you're a witch, you're supposed to like cats. Do cats do that thing where they crawl all over you because they know you don't like them?
This is a rather boring comment but I'll place it here in case anyone really needing to bathe a cat reads this.
We placed an old screen over the laundry tub and attached a short hose to the faucet. The cat could grab onto the screen and feel a bit more secure getting to stand on her feet. And of course the water filtered through into the sink.
It's pretty much still a 2-person job though.
Thanks anonymous but tell me, how do you get the claws out of the screen after the bathing part? One cat we had put claws through the rubber gloves and walked off with them.
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