Cats sharing the bathing experience

[Figarosmom]

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[question everything]

1. I've always thought that cats did not like bathing; that they wash themselves all over

but not based on many posts here.

Or because mine were always stray?

[Figarosmom]

2. I think if they have been bathed since they were kittens they are used to it.

I had a cat that would shower with my husband. She'd sit curled around his head on his shoulders. She had been a stray cat that showed up on our doorstep at Christmas time. I think maybe she associated it with warmth.

[magicarpet]

3. Yes,.. that seems to help.

If you acclimate them to water when they are younger the fear of water is not yet imprinted in their minds. Fear of water is secondary and the compulsion to explore the new is primary. Water is then not looked upon by them as foreign, or as possibly dangerous,.. or as maybe to be feared. If introduced to them when younger they seem more able to negotiate it without freaking running away. They love drinking from slowly running water if given the opportunity. My older cat can not tell if the water dish is empty of water. So she hooks her paws over the top edge of the water dish and bounces and drags it around to see if there is any wave action with all this motion. Then she proceeded to drink.

Her daughter actually stands in the water dish and taps her feet in the water dish to determine if it is empty or full. Then proceeded to stand in the water dish with her front paws and drinks,... then finishes up by giving her self a French bath using the water dish water to wash her face, head, and ears. I was thinking getting her a cat jacuzzi,... if there is such a thing.

[Skittles]

4. using his hooman's head as leverage to get a drink