Cat bathing and other tricks of the trade

Do you know how incredibly difficult it is to bathe a 20+ pound long haired cat with claws intact?

I came home early tonight so I could get ready for my hearing tomorrow, and Alex was violently ill - all body systems were in evacuation mode. Poor kitty. Because he's a really long haired cat - that means there was a BIG nasty mess in his fur.

Enter bathroom. Mayhem, hair flying, scatching, screaming (both him and me).

Now he's clean, wet, swaddled in towels laying next to me.

And like any male when he's sick... he just wants to be babied.

Poor kitty.