A cat only needs bathing if there is some substance on the coat that will harm the cat if ingested, such as; washing up liquid. Yes, washing up liquid. Someone near a friend of mine thought it funny to cover one of her cats with washing up liquid in such quantities that the cat would have died if it had tried to clean itself. Cat was apparently sleeping harmlessly on a shed roof when the perpetrator decided to take the lid off a bottle of WUL and pour it liberally over the black and white cat to 'teach it a lesson'... Poor cat had about half a bottle poured over him, so much that he actually looked green from the neck down.

It took 23 washes to get the green out, and a further 10 or so rinses until he stopped foaming. The poor cat sat there so patiently whilst we did it... the smell was overpowering us so he must have been totally overwhelmed.

Mind you, at the end of it, he practically glowed, he was so clean!!

LTS