buster and lyla take on the tub.

so remember that time the kitties and i had a horrifiying experience with the bathtub? well apparently the kittens have gotten it in their minds that the bathroom is all the rage. they sit at the door just WAITING to be let in there. once in a while we'll let them putz around in there, and they head straight for the tub these days. weird, right? you'd think they'd be scarred after their first forced bathtime experience.

i'm kinda loving that they're getting acquainted with the tub. maybe soon i'll be able to bathe them with ease as is my dream.

here's a video of them being very interested in trickling water.

OK.

now i'm on a mission. cute overload, [bless 'em!] featured all these videos with kitties that love to take baths. as you may recall, my attempt at bathing was not successful.

but this kitty just loves the water:

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so does this one!

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and so does this one!

i'm flabbergasted!


at this point i'm not expecting them to love taking a bath. however, i think lyla could really enjoy it. maybe i'll try it a little more tactfully this time. i have a feeling she'd totally dig the warm water. buster on the other hand... not EVEN revisiting that one.

lyla likes to lick.

lyla is a sweet sister and gives buster a mini-bath. she also likes to lick mommy's face in the middle of the night and wake her up. lyla is lucky she's so cute...

bathtime!

on sunday night, jessie and i decided to give the kitties a bath. i know, i know... kitties 'bathe' themselves, but they hadn't been bathed since coming to live with me and had a different home/cage smell to them. and besides, i bought some cute kitten shampoo with a cute kitten on it and i really wanted to use it [left].




we started with lyla. took her into the bathroom [the kitties have never been in there before] and she was a little nervous when i turned on the water.


overall, she did fairly well. she freaked out for a little at first, but then she calmed down and almost seemed to enjoy it. all the while shaking like a weed in a storm. some photos:


not happy.


her face says it all.


is that a smile i see?


how do you really feel lyla?

next up, buster. i was nervous he would freak out because one time he stepped in his own poop [oh the joys of young kittenhood] and i tried to wash his paw off. he flipped. buster's bath was short lived. he could not calm down and ended up biting the crap out of my hand. he got rinsed off, but not suds'd up.
some photos:

pre-bath, not sure what's about to happen.


freakout in 3..2..1..

that's about it. for obvious reasons, the buster photos did not come to fruition.



in hindsight i should have handled the situation better and read the
bathing kitty' tips that i read after the biting incident...not run the water, use a pitcher, not a new setting... i dunno. but man did they have role reversal in this situation! lyla certainly smelled much better afterwards and was so soft. buster [even though he only got wet] was softer as well.