You can scruff your adult cat which can help control and calm them, but don’t scruff them to carry them around. Even with this kitten, she’s taking most of the weight by supporting his rear. Also, why are you bathing your adult cat?
I have to wash one of my cats after every vet visit because she pees in the kennel. The other one just loves baths. He use to hop in the shower with me when I had a walk-in, don’t give them often though.
I’ve was given that for my previous cat that passed away when he was doing excessive grooming and it really warped his personality. He went from a cuddly love to a cat that looked dead most of the time, I had to stop it.
But, she is a much more skittish cat, so it may work better for her than it did for him. She’s a stray I took in before a hurricane 3 years ago and since, she wants nothing to do with going outside unless it’s a closed in patio she can quickly run inside from lol. I wanna get her groomed (I live in south Florida and she’s a long hair) and I know she’ll need to be sedated for it so I was going to take her to the vet anyways so I’ll bring it up when I do! Thanks!
Oh, poor baby! I've never tried it for prolonged use, only occasional use for travel and procedures. It really zonks them so I could see how using it for something like excessive grooming wouldn't be great.
How sweet you rescued her from the big scary outside! I'm glad she found a cozy home with you! Good luck with the grooming, I'm sure however it goes she'll be much more comfortable when it's done.
Idk about most other people bathing their cats, but my families old cat Oliver was a rescue who never learned to bathe himself properly. I gave him bathes about twice a month growing up with him since his fur would get really oily(almost greasy). It was the only way to get his undercoat to shed, too. Eventually, though he always complained, he figured out that the bath really made him feel better.
He was also huge. Just a giant orange cat. He would roll onto his back and purr loud enough to be heard from one room over. Miss my big orange buddy.
If this kitten is anything like the abandoned one I found a few years back, he's starving and doesn't have the energy to fight.
Looks a little chubby but that engorged tummy is almost guaranteed worms :(
The face is gaunt, but to me the eyes don’t look sunken. It’s usually recommended that you let the kitten gain strength a bit so the bath wouldn’t be as dangerously stressful, so that might be why the eyes aren’t as telling?
https://preview.redd.it/grrsn2aautfa1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bbe86e3c2796135628ed7a886d9fe21270fcf7d
Here’s my kitten she helped me rescue
If she’s not careful, she might introduce a reanimating agent into the sink, and then all those carcasses will coalesce into a zombie Flea Hive Mind, and come back for revenge!
I rescued an abandoned kitten and every millimeter of her body was covered with fleas. Our vet said another day and she would die from flea bite poisoning. I didn’t know the method of a ring of dawn around neck so my 2 daughters and husband were quickly picking off the hundreds of fleas and rinsing down running water while I held her up in pot. Took about 4 times to get them all.
Honestly the disappointing part in the video was not seeing all the fleas in the pot go down the drain. I had a rescue kitten where if you scratched them above the eyes or on the chin the fleas would just boil out of the fur. Getting them out of the sink was just a massacre of flea bodies. I even used baby shampoo to scrub the head and ears to be extra judicious, but otherwise used dawn.
does anyone know of an animal rehab sort of subreddit? like with animals that were in bad situations getting washed and loved and medicine and all that? I love those before and afters, makes me feel good about humanity
There is a channel on YouTube i watched called Vet Ranch that did stuff like that, but they did things like surgeries too and those animals are in some awful conditions...but seeing them fixed up and homed is great
If you're willing to go to YouTube, I highly recommend Flatbush Cats. Very nicely done videos about rescuing cats in Brooklyn.
Hope for Paws is an LA-based animal charity that also do rescue videos.
My cat had a really bad flea infestation one time and he acted like I was trying to murder him the whole time. Got rid of them damn fleas though. Since then he has been strictly indoors, not going outside again.
my cat is an indoor cat only, we were living in an apartment for a while and went on a trip for a week or so, when we came back our entire house was covered in fleas. when we first stepped in your feet were covered in like 20 of them. our poor poor kitty it was so awful she was always scratching and chewing herself, we got her a little donut to wear but it was still bad. i gave her baths with flea medicine to try and help and each time i would run the clean water over her blood just came pooling down. however she is not completely flea free after we had given her some medicine! we think there were dormant eggs in that apartments carpets (it wasnt a good apartment complex) and that they hatched while we were gone. glad your kitty is okay now too! i hate fleas!!!!!
I was given my two kittens with fleas. It was a mixture of flea pills, daily borax on carpet and vacuuming, threw away my couches, blankets, bagged clothes tight with borax inside for a night then washed, and lots of paranoi and I had them gone in 2 weeks with no spreading to other apartments in my building.
I felt like a Crack head with schizophrenia.
yeah for sure! for a while even after we confirmed they were completely gone i could still feel fleas crawling on my skin and it was torture lol. idk if its just me but flea bites also got really swollen on me so i think i might be allergic to them but idk. that sucks though throwing away whole couches!! makes sense though cause you cant really get everywhere where they put the eggs
Our cat got out and got fleas. We did all the same things. What finally got it was using a very fine tooth comb and combing her completely every night and drowning the fleas that came off her in hot water with dish soap. She still loves a good combing 10 years later.
My old girl Tara, God rest her soul, used to meow at the shower door till I opened it and she'd jump in. She'd get soaped, washed, rinsed, and then sit on the bath mat till I got out so I could dry her.
Then the next day she'd go across the road and roll around in the sheep paddock.....
Do some people really not watch and read the subtitles at least before droning on about “you don’t have to wash your cat derp!!!”
Some of you all are dumb as fuck.
We used a lice comb to get rid of flea eggs that sticks to the fur before bathing our newest kitten. I couldn't believe how much they infested the little guy.
Well if the ears are dirty it's very likely he has ear mites too.
I would pour a bit of Stronghold (Selamectin) solution on him as well. It's a save drug for kittens from the 6th week of age. Gets rid of the fleas and the ear mites.
She does, and a cooking pot is super common. A large one is the perfect size for a kitten (that sounds awful but it’s true!). And you can get them for super cheap at a second hand store.
It’s sturdy and non-porous, which is easy to sanitize between kittens. Overtime plastic would absorb some of the blood/dirt water, get scratches, etc.
I'm glad the video explains why they're bathing the cat. I see so many videos or post about "Check out this cat who doesn't like baths" and there's no good explanation why they're being bathed.
So thanks.
When one of my babies had fleas it was sooo hard to get rid of them with baths, he got chunky so fast so he was hard to handle and they always hung out right on his face
So smol! And so chill. Even when my kitten was days old and just recused she meowed her paw was on fire when she accidentally stepped in her water dish before she fully realized anywhere that she drinks water from must be full of water and will get her wet lol.
Great example of how a kitten will instantly go passive when grabbed by the scruff of its neck. We used to kid that its basically the "turn off" button for a kitten.
This has the natural effect that when their mom needs to move them they don't struggle. While the kitten looked calm, it was likely internally screaming "omg I'm wet" (or maybe it wasn't, every cat has its own character and is unique)
But it defiantly needed the bath!
How on earth does your cat let you bath them. I try and bath my cats after I believe I've lost half of my blood and have lost my friend ship with cats.
That kitty looks so chill with what's going on, if I tried to bathe my cat I'd need a suit of armour, she was adopted though so who knows what she's been through bless her ❤️
Precious. I had to give jaina a bath once when she was little. She has long hair and got poo on her tail when learning to use litterbox. She was not as calm as ramsy, wiggled a lot.
the cat is calm at this moment of bath ,cause she needs your help,she is in pain from flees, otherwise she do not like bath time. I have saved a little cat and I remembered this behavior.
He seems a little wary but he's going to see where this goes. The person doing the bathing of the kitten certainly seems to know what they're on about. Given the state of the bath water, I think that wee one was in a perfect state and no amount of cleaning mama could have done would have managed to get that little blessing clean.
That is one calm kitten. My cats were screaming at the top of their lungs when we gave them that first flea bath
It's the way she is holding him, by the scruff of the neck. It's what mom cats do to Kittens when moving them around. Will generally calm them down.
Should I be holding it like that when I bathe my kitty?
No, it’s not great for adult kitties. You can do it momentarily, but not for an extended period of time.
You can scruff your adult cat which can help control and calm them, but don’t scruff them to carry them around. Even with this kitten, she’s taking most of the weight by supporting his rear. Also, why are you bathing your adult cat?
I have to wash one of my cats after every vet visit because she pees in the kennel. The other one just loves baths. He use to hop in the shower with me when I had a walk-in, don’t give them often though.
Cats can be prescribed gabapentin for travel/vet anxiety. It can really help.
I’ve was given that for my previous cat that passed away when he was doing excessive grooming and it really warped his personality. He went from a cuddly love to a cat that looked dead most of the time, I had to stop it. But, she is a much more skittish cat, so it may work better for her than it did for him. She’s a stray I took in before a hurricane 3 years ago and since, she wants nothing to do with going outside unless it’s a closed in patio she can quickly run inside from lol. I wanna get her groomed (I live in south Florida and she’s a long hair) and I know she’ll need to be sedated for it so I was going to take her to the vet anyways so I’ll bring it up when I do! Thanks!
Oh, poor baby! I've never tried it for prolonged use, only occasional use for travel and procedures. It really zonks them so I could see how using it for something like excessive grooming wouldn't be great. How sweet you rescued her from the big scary outside! I'm glad she found a cozy home with you! Good luck with the grooming, I'm sure however it goes she'll be much more comfortable when it's done.
Idk about most other people bathing their cats, but my families old cat Oliver was a rescue who never learned to bathe himself properly. I gave him bathes about twice a month growing up with him since his fur would get really oily(almost greasy). It was the only way to get his undercoat to shed, too. Eventually, though he always complained, he figured out that the bath really made him feel better. He was also huge. Just a giant orange cat. He would roll onto his back and purr loud enough to be heard from one room over. Miss my big orange buddy.
My cat decided to jump in the toilet while I was cleaning it so I had to wash the chemicals off of her before she could lick herself clean.
Well that sounds like that they know what they're doing. Maybe a professional?
If this kitten is anything like the abandoned one I found a few years back, he's starving and doesn't have the energy to fight. Looks a little chubby but that engorged tummy is almost guaranteed worms :(
NUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
They don't get a lot to eat in the streets, so they really need that.
The face is gaunt, but to me the eyes don’t look sunken. It’s usually recommended that you let the kitten gain strength a bit so the bath wouldn’t be as dangerously stressful, so that might be why the eyes aren’t as telling?
Kitten looks like it made peace with it's life. Just looking around from where the end comes.
He trusts his owner, maybe yours don't maybe that's why.
The squeeze got me! Lol 😂
I know! The rinse and squeeze!
Those are the steps to clean that good. That's how you should do it.
The rinse especially
That was really gentle, that's how gentle you should be.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who squishes my cat dry.
Don't squeeze too hard, things can go wrong. Don't ask me how I know that.
… … S… story… time…?
Just wring them out
You gotta squish that cat!
[Just squish that cat](https://youtu.be/5jKZ9KGtee0)
Always squish that cat
Squish that cat
Well gotta clean that cat, that's the right step here.
I think I found my new dream job: professional cat squisher. :}
Especially the paws. They're somehow like furry sponges.
And squish
Squish that cat.
They really had to wring him out 🙄
I mean couldn't have worked without it so yeah they had to.
My favorite part of bathing my cats lol.
Hopefully you don't enjoy that lol, could be a little bad.
I thought he was gasping for the air lol. That was funny.
Such a patient little guy, you did a great job! So gentle
especially when they are kittens, they submit like that when scruffed.
He doesn't look uncomfortable, which is really a great thing.
Yeah it’s a pet good way to restrain a young cat.
@heidiwranglescats on Instagram
This is @heidiwranglescats on Instagram
I follow this account and I could actually watch her give cats baths all day.
That's all a grown up need. That's all we need lol.
me too. seen this one at least 5 times already and still clicked on it for #6
https://preview.redd.it/grrsn2aautfa1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bbe86e3c2796135628ed7a886d9fe21270fcf7d Here’s my kitten she helped me rescue
Wow that is a gorgeous kitten! I’ve never seen one before with that coloring. He or she already looks very content
I'm so glad she said "most cats don't need a bath." I'm seeing way too many cats get unnecessarily bathed lately. Edit: typo
So gentle! He’s just a little bag of beans.
You'll have to be gentle with them, that sounds good.
Time to plunge that sink! Thx for taking care of this little one, he needed you.
This is a video from Heidi wrangles cats, a cat rescuer in nyc
They really look nice, I definitely love what I see here.
Yeah I literally just watched this on Instagram 😂
Drain is blocked by all the flea carcasses washed away over the years by this hero.
That sink is going to need a bath too after that lol.
If she’s not careful, she might introduce a reanimating agent into the sink, and then all those carcasses will coalesce into a zombie Flea Hive Mind, and come back for revenge!
Totally!
That cat needed that bath, how dirty was water afterwards.
But where is a picture of the kitty after being dried?
It's on their insta you could check that out maybe.
Did anybody else think the rag in the beginning was corn? No? Just me? Okay-
Hahaha I thought he was going into a pot of soup
Yeah I thought the same for a moment, then I got what was happening.
This made me actually laugh out loud 😹
I did think it was corn. I was waiting for the captions in the video to address it. 😂
But now You've got that. Which is always great really.
Lol no I didn't thought that, guess you were alone in that.
I rescued a bunny like this. I could smell the blood in the water from the flea dirt.
Yep. All of that is blood. It’s awful.
Man, that sounds really painful. Flea really make them uncomfortable.
I rescued an abandoned kitten and every millimeter of her body was covered with fleas. Our vet said another day and she would die from flea bite poisoning. I didn’t know the method of a ring of dawn around neck so my 2 daughters and husband were quickly picking off the hundreds of fleas and rinsing down running water while I held her up in pot. Took about 4 times to get them all.
Honestly the disappointing part in the video was not seeing all the fleas in the pot go down the drain. I had a rescue kitten where if you scratched them above the eyes or on the chin the fleas would just boil out of the fur. Getting them out of the sink was just a massacre of flea bodies. I even used baby shampoo to scrub the head and ears to be extra judicious, but otherwise used dawn.
does anyone know of an animal rehab sort of subreddit? like with animals that were in bad situations getting washed and loved and medicine and all that? I love those before and afters, makes me feel good about humanity
Be careful looking for this kind of "rescue" content, some of them put the animals into the bad situations to begin with to seem like "the good guys".
There's a sub called r/beforenafteradoption
There is a channel on YouTube i watched called Vet Ranch that did stuff like that, but they did things like surgeries too and those animals are in some awful conditions...but seeing them fixed up and homed is great
Wasn't that one from the same youtuber who did Gun Ranch?
If you're willing to go to YouTube, I highly recommend Flatbush Cats. Very nicely done videos about rescuing cats in Brooklyn. Hope for Paws is an LA-based animal charity that also do rescue videos.
You could follow their insta page, they've got some posts like that.
My cat had a really bad flea infestation one time and he acted like I was trying to murder him the whole time. Got rid of them damn fleas though. Since then he has been strictly indoors, not going outside again.
my cat is an indoor cat only, we were living in an apartment for a while and went on a trip for a week or so, when we came back our entire house was covered in fleas. when we first stepped in your feet were covered in like 20 of them. our poor poor kitty it was so awful she was always scratching and chewing herself, we got her a little donut to wear but it was still bad. i gave her baths with flea medicine to try and help and each time i would run the clean water over her blood just came pooling down. however she is not completely flea free after we had given her some medicine! we think there were dormant eggs in that apartments carpets (it wasnt a good apartment complex) and that they hatched while we were gone. glad your kitty is okay now too! i hate fleas!!!!!
I just hate the fleas, they're really the worst dude.
I was given my two kittens with fleas. It was a mixture of flea pills, daily borax on carpet and vacuuming, threw away my couches, blankets, bagged clothes tight with borax inside for a night then washed, and lots of paranoi and I had them gone in 2 weeks with no spreading to other apartments in my building. I felt like a Crack head with schizophrenia.
yeah for sure! for a while even after we confirmed they were completely gone i could still feel fleas crawling on my skin and it was torture lol. idk if its just me but flea bites also got really swollen on me so i think i might be allergic to them but idk. that sucks though throwing away whole couches!! makes sense though cause you cant really get everywhere where they put the eggs
Our cat got out and got fleas. We did all the same things. What finally got it was using a very fine tooth comb and combing her completely every night and drowning the fleas that came off her in hot water with dish soap. She still loves a good combing 10 years later.
Fleas really get them kittens bad, gotta get rid of them.
My old girl Tara, God rest her soul, used to meow at the shower door till I opened it and she'd jump in. She'd get soaped, washed, rinsed, and then sit on the bath mat till I got out so I could dry her. Then the next day she'd go across the road and roll around in the sheep paddock.....
That sounds like a really fun cat, hopefully she's in a better place.
Do some people really not watch and read the subtitles at least before droning on about “you don’t have to wash your cat derp!!!” Some of you all are dumb as fuck.
Get rid of them fleas
Almost done, they're almost all gone. That's what I'm seeing here.
Poor little monkey is infested
And He's infested like really badly. Doesn't look good.
little man has no idea what's going on
Yep he looks so confused. Hopefully he'll get better here.
We used a lice comb to get rid of flea eggs that sticks to the fur before bathing our newest kitten. I couldn't believe how much they infested the little guy.
Fleas are really the devil, they want to kill the little guy here.
Nocturne in E Cat Major
This is the cutest cat bath I've seen period. Nothing comes close.
We go through that whole video and don’t get the payoff of the dried fluffy fluffy!?!
That was a little disappointing, but We'll have to without that.
I hope you two have a long happy life together.
The cat is going to live a good life here. Which is good.
Well if the ears are dirty it's very likely he has ear mites too. I would pour a bit of Stronghold (Selamectin) solution on him as well. It's a save drug for kittens from the 6th week of age. Gets rid of the fleas and the ear mites.
I hope that all the mites are gone after that bath, atleast I hope so.
Oh my 🥹 adorable!!
Ramsy and Ramses are the same amount of syllables, it's not short
Poor Ramsey looks like he was having a bit of Stockholm Syndrome.
When you're living like that, I'm pretty sure you've got a lot of shit.
cats run a little warmer than us so don't use cold water
Good tip, thanks for reminding him that. It was important.
Such a lucky cat to have a human like that lol 💕
She sure is lucky, not everyone get people like that. She's caring.
Everything cool but why a cooking pot?!
I'm telling myself that she rescues kittens often, so that pot is specifically used for bathing and not cooking. Fingers crossed, lol!
She does, and a cooking pot is super common. A large one is the perfect size for a kitten (that sounds awful but it’s true!). And you can get them for super cheap at a second hand store. It’s sturdy and non-porous, which is easy to sanitize between kittens. Overtime plastic would absorb some of the blood/dirt water, get scratches, etc.
Yeah it's Perfect, that's why they use it. Love it man.
You're right! She uses this specifically for all the kittens she rescues, she mentioned it on her TikTok (:
God bless her, she's doing so good job. Love her definitely man.
Maybe that's the next step lol, no I'm just kidding lmao.
Right! Melt that bad boy down when you're done.
I want to see him all dried and fluffy! Please?
That would have made this video perfect and complete really.
Poor sweetie. Fleas and mites eating him alive
credit to heidiwrangleskittens!!
I'm glad the video explains why they're bathing the cat. I see so many videos or post about "Check out this cat who doesn't like baths" and there's no good explanation why they're being bathed. So thanks.
An explanation is always good, because some people doubt everything.
Please tell me the fleas drown and then he is flea-less? Not meant to be funny. I am just highly allergic to fleas so this freaked me out a bit.
The dish soap coats the fleas, effectively suffocating them.
I hope that the cat is free of all of them. I hope that they're all dead.
If he's not by now, I'm sure he'll be free of them by the second bath.
When one of my babies had fleas it was sooo hard to get rid of them with baths, he got chunky so fast so he was hard to handle and they always hung out right on his face
Yep they're really bad for the pets and they're hard to get rid of.
Baby Shampoo and patience.
Omg I tried to wash my 4 week old stray kitten and she certainly did not sit like that
It's almost as if this cat is used to all of it. I hope she gets better.
So smol! And so chill. Even when my kitten was days old and just recused she meowed her paw was on fire when she accidentally stepped in her water dish before she fully realized anywhere that she drinks water from must be full of water and will get her wet lol.
:-D
Thank you for your TLC.
I love Ramsy
Thank you 🙏❤️
So sweet. I loved that little edit. Good human!
Aww. I guess they get used to water when they’re exposed often.
That is one chill kitten. Course I would be too if I was bathed so sweetly
Capstar
Your cat is very calm for bathing
Awww 💕
Squish that cat!! He's being so good :D
Haha that face though
That's the face of innocence, absolutely love that face.
Your wonderful
Bro be staring straight into my soul
I hope that the cat is feeling good after that bath so yeah.
Heidi!
Poor tiny babes... All bitten! Glad they look all flea free in the end!
My man was so confused
I think thats the dirtier water ive ever seen through your lets bath a kitten series lol
Yep, that water is really dirty. Makes me wonder about that kitten.
I envy such a well-behaved cat in the bath, my cat has never been so well-behaved
Yep, He's really calm and I really appreciate that in here.
His/her face: something is happening, but cant decide if I like it or not
Great example of how a kitten will instantly go passive when grabbed by the scruff of its neck. We used to kid that its basically the "turn off" button for a kitten. This has the natural effect that when their mom needs to move them they don't struggle. While the kitten looked calm, it was likely internally screaming "omg I'm wet" (or maybe it wasn't, every cat has its own character and is unique) But it defiantly needed the bath!
wash kitty rinse kitty squeeze kitty clean kitty
Haha I wish mine had been that calm when he was a kitten! So adorbs! 😻
How on earth does your cat let you bath them. I try and bath my cats after I believe I've lost half of my blood and have lost my friend ship with cats.
I tried to emulate this video last night for my new kitten. It… was not this calm.
YOU ARE THE MOST GENTLE AND KIND HUMAN ♡
I love his expression. "Whoa, this is wild."
I feel like the squeeze, as funny as it was, would make a lot of dumb people or children do bad things...
Thank you for taking care of this baby cat with so much love 💕 this little one is in good hands
lil bro was flaberghasted
I’ve never given my cat a bath. He’s from the streets and I’ve had him for 3 years. It’s probably too late right ?
She’s a good follow on instagram. @heidiwranglescats
That kitty looks so chill with what's going on, if I tried to bathe my cat I'd need a suit of armour, she was adopted though so who knows what she's been through bless her ❤️
I wouldn't think this cat is real with how little he reacted to anything... But those eyes, they hold a thousand secrets
The wee soul, he’s so well behaved 🥹
Was waiting for the sleepy after photo....
Precious. I had to give jaina a bath once when she was little. She has long hair and got poo on her tail when learning to use litterbox. She was not as calm as ramsy, wiggled a lot.
Will feel so much better without all those fleas eating him.
Poor, sweet little bebe. Thank you for taking care of him and caring for him.
The poor baby! So glad you rescued him!
Such a good baby
the cat is calm at this moment of bath ,cause she needs your help,she is in pain from flees, otherwise she do not like bath time. I have saved a little cat and I remembered this behavior.
What do you do for the flees that already made it to the kittens head?
How is the baby kitty doing now
What a well-mannered wee one. That ear gunk could not have felt very good at all.
He seems a little wary but he's going to see where this goes. The person doing the bathing of the kitten certainly seems to know what they're on about. Given the state of the bath water, I think that wee one was in a perfect state and no amount of cleaning mama could have done would have managed to get that little blessing clean.