lenyberry:

house-of-crows:

fluffytherapy:

monster-m-e:

fluffytherapy:

Taako greatly disapproves.

Interesting tip: Cats are self cleaning.

Generally, yes. This 5 week old foster kitten is still learning how to not be covered in food and got particularly gross. I do not anticipate too many future baths as he is slowly learning.

oh jeez… the amount of times Lilith at barely 3wks (abandoned feral kitty) got what should have been in the litter tray all over her butt and legs and didn’t know enough to clean herself meant she got very many butt-baths as a smol. 

Cats are self cleaning. Kittens, on the other hand, need some help.

Some adult cats still need help. I’ve known adult kitties who were bad at cleaning themselves and needed, for instance, their nose sponged off after eating moist food, or butt-baths when they have even just a little extra squishy poops, or who just don’t lick themselves properly in general for whatever reason and have to be brushed frequently and also bathed periodically because they just… don’t do it themselves (despite being apparently entirely healthy). 

Also once in a while a kitty will just get into something nasty and need extra bathing. I had to clean off my kitty once when she knocked over a paint can that apparently didn’t have the lid hammered on as well as it should’ve been. She had blue paint splatters all over her and also walked through it so it was on her paws, and you really don’t want a kitty licking HOUSE PAINT off their fur! It’s not meant to be ingested! Yes, she hated both the bath and the spot-trimming I had to do to get the bigger blobs of paint out of her fur all the way since I didn’t want to, you know, expose her to solvents on top of everything she was already gunked up with.