I have only bathed one of my cats and that's Panda Bear. She was really dirty when I finally let her stay in the house to have her babies. She's been in the house ever since. My other 3 have never been bathed and they've never been outside so they're nice and clean and soft
Bye the way - Panda did amazingly well considering she was a feral kitty. I actually walked away from it without any open wounds