Confession #3

I bathe our cats. Yes, you read it right. I know you think I'm nuts but that's why this is confession number 3.

There’s only one sound that makes both of my kitties run and cower under beds, couches, or whatever that can get to the quickest. That sound is the sound of running water in the kitchen sink. Both of my kitties know that that sound means that it’s BATH TIME!!! You are probably thinking that I am nuts but believe it or not it’s not as crazy as it may seem. When we first got Pip he was literally covered in flees. He had thousands of flees crawling all over him and some of them even had the guts to jump onto us, YUCK!!! So the bath thing started the day we brought him home. He was six weeks old and for the first year we had him he got a bath every week. At first he didn’t really like it, and now that we have our other kitty he pretends to not like it, but deep down I know he loves it. The last time I gave Pip a bath he kept falling over because he was so relaxed. Imagine a 16 pound cat so relaxed from his bath that his legs just keep giving out and he isn’t able to stand up in the sink… I was crying I was laughing so hard! He acts tough but he’s just a big softy. Now Trixie’s bath is a different story, she hates them. Usually she will stand in the sink and cry the whole time. It is as if someone were ripping out her fingernails one by one. She stands in the sink and wails and then looks back at you with her big green eyes as if to say, “How could you do this to me?” It’s actually pretty hilarious.

Even though the bath routine got started because Pip had fleas 2 years ago I have kept it up because I think that clean kitties make for a cleaner home. Even though I give them a bath every other week I am still always amazed at the amount of hair that I find all over the house. I vacuum downstairs every day (that’s a whole other confession) and the upstairs every couple of days and I am always amazed at how quickly the vacuum canister fills up with cat hair. Personally I think it’s disgusting but what are you going to do? I think this summer I am going to have them both shaved so that will cut down on the hair all over the house (and it will give us something to laugh about). Sometimes when I am dusting or vacuuming I am amazed at the thought that I even have cats since they make such a continuous hair mess. I guess that just proves how much I love my husband since he’s the one that wanted to get a cat in the first place! :)