Quote Originally Posted by happylabs View Post
My experience has been that you generally do not need to bathe cats. They keep themselves pretty clean on their own. Except for my RB kitty Kit-Kat. She got a little heavy and had trouble cleaning her rear area so I had to wash that for her on occasion.
It is a good idea to get them use to a bath. Cam doesn't mind it at all. She'll hop onto my chest, then I'll sit up & plop her into the water & will just rinse her off.. I don't use soap on her, as she is usually clean. She only smells if she as in the litter box & got excited by me being there & started to roll onto her side... ewww... Even then I only use water to get the bulk & smell off her.. she'll do the cleaning part