this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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Cats shouldn’t be bathed. They clean themselves perfectly fine. This is just cruelty to them.
Edit: to all those coming at me with these rare occasions of cats plunging into something poisonous and need to be rescued by bathing them: do you honestly think, that this “funny” post is about a cat which needed a bath because it fell into something deadly?
I've had two idiot brothers who for whatever reason never did learn how to clean themselves as kittens. If we didn't wash them they started smelling, and the white fur became a nice nicotine yellow.
Years later we got a third cat, a rescue, who actually taught them to clean themselves!