They say that cats and water don't mix. Well, I quite like warm water, and lots of soap!

Dippi having a bathI have to be bathed. Due to my disabilities, I sometimes wear on my bottom and fluffy pantaloons what should have been buried in the grit box or the garden. I quite like being bathed, it's very therapeutic. However, I hate being groomed. Grooming is open season to bite my human!!

I have my own special blue comb and my human tries to tidy my fur up and tease out any knots, but I just despise it and will bite and snap at any bit of flesh which may come my way. I have been known to draw blood, which is a bit naughty considering how I've been rescued and I do really love my human.

I know when I’m about to have a bath. I've usually been clumping round with disgusting bits clinging to my legs and tail or I have a certain fragrance about me. My human rather unkindly refers to me as Miss Stinky. Whilst there may be some truth in the accusation, I am quite capable of giving my bottom a good lick and pick over when left to my own devices. Although this may not be on the top of my list of priorities for the day, and my human will remind me with ‘bottie-checkies’ whereby I am picked up and hurled on my back whilst me nether regions are inspected and cleaned with baby wipes.

I do intend to get round to having a good clean sometime. But sometime, in the future, never, doesn’t appeal to my human and without warning, she will scoop me up and head towards the bathroom so I know what's coming!! I get plonked in a bath with warm water in, usually which she has just vacated but I do smell rather wonderful afterwards!!

She usually has some nice smelling Molton Brown Pink Peppercorn stuff which she rubs into my wet fur and it all foams up. Then I’m swooshed up and down in the bath water to rinse it off, I quite like whizzing gently up and down the bath as my human carefully holds me and it's quite good fun.

Cuddling in warm towels is quite a nice feeling afterwards as the water is gently squeezed off me but I’m not too sure about the hair dryer which  woofs warm air up my bottom and girlie bits!!

Willi's version

You won't get me near water. Except when I fall through the ice into the pond which doesn't really count.

I don't even do grooming. The human does battle with a comb but I'm too big, heavy and can wriggle my way out of her grasp then run headlong down the garden till the whim of grooming me has left the human’s head.

Dippi gets a bath. Sometimes she has the ends of her claws clipped off if they are too sharp, a sort of mogicure, and then she's dropped into the bath and lathered up. Naturally I will buster through the bathroom door to sit and supervise. The bathroom is tiny and the human will try and shoe me away, but I feel it is my duty to be there in case Dippi drowns. I soon scarper when the hairdryer comes out. The human thinks its great fun to aim it at me knowing how I hate it, noisy thing!

 

 

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