Originally posted by halliecat
Hopefully, the neighbors weren't listening since there was a lot of poor kitty yowling!
You mean where it sounds like you're absolutely torturing the poor thing?

After 17 1/2 years, Tubby recently got his first bath ever! I was always afraid to even attempt it, but it actually went quite well. Unlike Sirrahsim, I don't put any water in the tub because Tubby seems to not even notice he's wet....until his feet get wet, and then he wants OUT! He had a spot on his back that the vet said was probably some sort of bacterial thing because he can't quite reach that spot very well anymore. So to help him out, I gave him a bath to see if I could get rid of the spot.

I get everything ready. Shower door open, kitty shampoo handy and open and a large plastic cup on hand. I get Tubby and close us both in the bathroom and put him in the bathtub. One of the advantages I have is we have the glass shower doors, so he can't get out except to go past me. Then I turn the water on slow so it doesn't make a lot of noise and fill the cup and dump it on him. I do that a couple of times and rub him to get the water to soak in, otherwise it just runs off. Once I get him sufficiently wet I lather, rinse and repeat. I get a few yowls out of him while this is going on, but usually the serious "She's killing me" yowls come when I try and wipe him off.

I really don't think there is a right or wrong way, it's just whatever works best for you and your kitty.