I found this quote in a beautiful boook of cat photographs I bought the other day:

"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction and a cat.
The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by"
(Stephen Baker)

I thought of you immediately.

The book is called 101 Cataclysms - For the Love of Cats , by a New Zealand animal photographer called Rachael Hale, published by Hodder

It's my early Christmas present to me