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Bathe The Monkey

When I got home from work last night the cat (who is tentatively called “The Monkey”) was still there, and he still had a stinky bum. So I gave him a bath.

I filled a plastic tub with warm water (about six inches deep) and a bit of mild dish soap. Needless to say, The Monkey was not impressed. While he resisted getting in the water, and yelled a bit, he didn’t get violent. My “death by cat bath” scratch was arrived at by a slow dig from a back paw, not a furious slash.

So I gave him a good scrub, and then I cut off the poopy hair balls around his bum that were causing the stink. I rinsed him well and dried him as best as I could. He didn’t seem mad at me, but he was trembling quite a bit, so I held him close and kept him in the sun until he calmed down and warmed up.

I went in the house and made dinner while The Monkey stayed outside on the table sunning and drying himself. An hour or so later, as it was getting dark, I went out to check on him – he was fully dry and not shivering, so I figured that was a good sign. He seemed content to keep his station on the deck, watching us from the outside as we watched him from the inside.

However, when I checked on him at around 10:00 PM he was gone. Still gone at 11:00 PM and at midnight. I refreshed his food and water bowls and went to bed. This morning he was not there, although half of the food had been eaten (but that might have been by a skunk).

Um. Maybe he wasn’t impressed with the bath and decided to try his luck elsewhere?

12 thoughts on “Bathe The Monkey”

  1. Maybe now that some human took care of cleaning him and can finally go impress the ladies with his nice coat…

  2. Didn’t mind having the “parts” scrubbed and rubbed – but wasn’t keen on the snuggling after the deed was done… Too much commitment for this cat!

  3. Au contraire, Harry. He’s really friendly and affectionate. Even after the bath he wouldn’t run away from me and he purred like a maniac when I snuggled him.

  4. For someone determined not to adopt The Monkey you’re definitely giving him the signals the set up shop. Cat gets a bath and food. Lucky Kitty! Nice of you to give him a good wash down. Nasty scratch though.

  5. 1 leather (work) glove would have help, partly…

  7. But since you didn’t want to adopt him, at least he’s now clean enough for the next family to, at the very least, consider it.

  8. Just an update: he hasn’t been back at all, or at least I haven’t seen him. But someone got to the food (and it’s not The Mini). I hope he’s okay.

  9. I bathed and housed a homeless cat, and it escaped out a slightly open window very much like Terminator 2. However, if you are to become a random Cat Bather (or even a domestic cat bather, considering my creatures) I suggest work gloves and a jacket.

  10. “Random Cat Bathing”

    Forget about the flooding in India or the earhquake in Peru…

    Jack, you seem to be in the know… for the love of a small “g” god, is there a support group in place for this kind of behavior?

    If so, is it’s effort’s directed at the cat or the blogger?

    Can I walk a mediocre distance somewhere convenient to raise funds?

    All right I can’t help myself… I’m laughing uncontrollably!

    … and I hate that because I ended up snorting rum & coke through my nose ’cause when I read this thread I was preoccupied with singing along to the Crowded House song, “Weather will Win You”

  12. Tetanus? Whahta’s thAT? Whaooa i’M hAVuing soMe toroublle tyPPPPPingg fOr sOmE rEaSoN dfidsfds.ds.f…

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