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Lately there's been a lot of people posting pics of their cats in the bath and it seems to be a common thread. I don't know about you guys but I was always taught to leave cats alone on the bathing issue, since being bathed can dry out their skin and deplete their natural oils and also since they are perfectly capable of doing it themselves and naturally do it that way. Also that they only time you SHOULD bathe your cat is either in an emergency situation or if the cat is tongueless and in that case you don't BATHE them fully, you wipe them down well with a damp washclothe to simulate tongue-cleaning.

This is all what I've learned like as oral tradition from my family lawl.

Has popular thinking changed so drastically that it is now suggested to bathe your cats? It really seems kind of mean since they usually hate it and can do it themselves.

Pic related, it's my cat, but not in a bath.

We only ever bathed her once when she ran out and rolled around in some ant poison powder my dad laid down.
>> Anonymous
I suppose there is some truth to that, but if you start bathing them when they're young and continue to do it I can't see how it would develop into a problem. It's not like you start washing them for the first 3 years of their life and then say "Hey, cats can clean themselves with that magnificent scratchy tounge of theirs!" and stop bathing them.
>> Anonymous
im gonna drown my cat just to make you mad
>> Anonymous
>>280526
You sound like a shallow psychopath.
>> Anonymous
My cat was bathed regularly as a kitten, because he and his siblings didn't have a mother, and didn't know how to groom themselves. These weren't "baths", but just a rinse under a faucet and a prompt drying. When I brought him home, I have him a bath with flea soap, but since then I've left him alone.

I threaten him with a bath when he's being bad. :P
>> Anonymous
LETS TELL BATHING STORIES.
when we got our kitten, he had some kind of aaargh horrible diarrhea. And seeing as he had long fur it would all get stuck to any fur in the vicinity of his ass. So we had to bath him in the sink to remove all of it, because nobody wants to spend time with a kitten who smells like runny poop and ass.
All he did was meow in that mournful, pathetic way cats do when you're doing something they dislike.
Fun fact; the diarrhea was from the cat food the store had been feeding him. They advised us not to change his diet suddenly, but seeing as it was giving him THE GODDAMN RUNS we switched foods. He was perfectly fine after that.
>> Anonymous
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>>280523
But like, why would you wash them for the first three years to start with? (assuming they had a mother to teach them how to bathe and weren't separated too early)

We never washed my cat in her early years. We got her from a farm when she was good and ready to leave her mother.

PS OP here.
>> Anonymous
>>280530
Also this is possibly the ultimate of emergency baths lol.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>280528
You sound gullible.
>> Anonymous
I bathed my cat to help keep her clean. In fact, i kept bathing her till the day she died. The vet said she died of something call numounia :(
>> Anonymous
>>281560
Is this person a troll? I can't tell if they're trolling or stupid.
>> Anonymous
I never bathe my cat. He has a tongue and had a mother apparently. He seems clean, though someone once called him "greasy" even though his long hair is naturally layered looking.

Sometimes I would use damp towels on my previous cats. Haven't tried it with this one.
>> Anonymous
I've never bathed either of our cats. Once one of them got motor oil on her fur, so we had to do our best to get it out using a damp cloth and various natural soaps, and then clipped off the clumps of oily fur that wouldn't clean off. That way we were able to prevent her from licking the oil. I don't think she'd have allowed to bathe her though!