Just here to send more well wishes. Sometimes, a thread will get on my nerves - and this one has done it! Suppose a cat, dog, even person is possibly injured and goes to the hospital or ER but the wounded area is all dirty and yucky - are the medical people going to say "oh you need to go to a groomer, bath house, go back home first etc and get cleaned up before we can see what is wrong!" Hopefully the vet would have been more helpful than the lady who answered the phone!!

Hope it goes well tonight. I have a cat with stinky butt syndrome and he gets frequent "buttbaths" (no comments out there!!) and essentially I just fill a nice very warm tub and lower the kitty butt side down into the tub and let him soak a bit. A really squirming kitty does well wrapped tightly in a towel "cat burrito" - the warm water makes them relax and surely the warm soak will loosen the biggest part of the mess. I have even used shampoo right through the towel at times and used the towel to do the dirty work - then swish swish, fresh towel, etc. Maybe even have some scissors handy to snip away some fur and matts if possible?? I would bet the cat will be ever so much more comfortable and happy when this is done for her!! Poor little thing!

THANK YOU for doing what you can to help her!