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Off-Topic Share your animal friends!

Spresso gets a bath. Had a flea infestation at home I tackled with a collar for my cat along with lighted gazebo sticky traps. One or more must have hitched a ride on me. Was reluctant to put a collar on her so decided a thorough bi-weekly bath and gazebo traps at her second home might work.

Blurry action photo - she doesn't like the bath part at all and will make a break for it if she can. But she loves the towel rub down afterwards!

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I tried to bathe Smokey once when I first got him, because he was stressed from the move, and stopped cleaning himself, and was very very stinky. All I had was a stand up shower stall, and I thought I could wash him in there. That was a mistake that cost me some blood.

A year and half or so ago he had mats in a very inconvenient place which led to his own little klingon invasion. He got stinky again. This time I tried to bathe him in a rubbermaid partly filled with warm water and baby shampoo. I got him in there, but he was crying and struggling and then started making nips at me, though not committed ones. Shot across the bow, so to speak. I took the hint. In retrospect, a fluff monster like him, waterlogged, would probably only make the matter fur issue worse.

So I brush him daily and let him worry about the cleaning. He does a good job.
 
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