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?
do you honestly think, that this “funny” post is about a cat which needed a bath because it fell into something deadly?
Why shouldn't it be? I've got a cat, if he got something nasty on himself and I had to bathe him I would absolutely be taking pictures of him looking ridiculous afterwards. "Deadly" here doesn’t need to mean that there was a big vat of cyanide sitting open or something, it could be as simple as the cat getting into a room with wet paint on the walls
Occam's razor states that the most likely explanation for something is the one that requires the fewest assumptions. Your explanation - that the cat's owner regularly bathes the cat for no good reason - requires large assumptions about the owner that there is no evidence for. It is therefore not the answer that Occam's razor leads to
We gave my cat a bath one time he came home and absolutely reeked, dunno if skunk, or if he got peed on by some predator making an example of him or what. Absolute ammonia nasty smell, terrible. He seemed completely unfazed by it because he's an idiot, maybe he's even a fetishist, I dunno, but he needed to get bathed. We got special shampoo and all that.
And despite looking like the cat in the picture on the left, he didn't look anything like the cat in the picture on the right.
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!
Mine jumped into the sewer (or something like it in the basement of the house)
I wouldn't think he would like licking disgusting things - and he was pretty cooperative
One of my cats once escaped out of a window at ground level (he managed to dismantle the netting while i slept, it's the only time any cat of mine managed to do something like this), and the big explorer promptly got scared and hid in the insides of a car parked directly outside. He didn't get hurt (except his ego), but was full of oil and dust from the breakpads. That's the only time i thoroughly bathed him (and paid the blood price). You are right of course that bathing isn't something you should do just because, but if the cat is actually full of very unhealthy stuff, i want to prevent him eating all of that while he grooms himself.
There's a woman on YouTube who says they need regular bathing "so they can used to it in case they need to be bathed when they get older." That's some strange thinking.
My cat gets butt baths, which basically boils down to me using a wet rag and shampoo to try to wash her back end, which constantly smells of urine because she had a stroke and lost control of her bladder and her tail doesn’t move, so it gets dragged through her pee. There are instances of cats needing baths, but generally you’re right they don’t need full on baths like dogs do
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Jimbo@pawb.social · 42 pts · 213d
All I see are 2 cuties
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 213d
one of which is absolutely going to be getting revenge.
just as soon as it figures out the whole thumb's and can opener thing.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 213d
He looks like a Cornish Rex when wet. You get used to that look after a while and start to think it looks normal.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 213d
That's not a kitten. That's Evil Larry!
grober_Unfug@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 213d
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?
Skua@kbin.earth · 41 pts · 213d
Why shouldn't it be? I've got a cat, if he got something nasty on himself and I had to bathe him I would absolutely be taking pictures of him looking ridiculous afterwards. "Deadly" here doesn’t need to mean that there was a big vat of cyanide sitting open or something, it could be as simple as the cat getting into a room with wet paint on the walls
toynbee@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 213d
What are we supposed to do with our big vats then?
tektite@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 213d
Cats are liquid and may eventually fill your large vats if left unattended!
toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d
To be fair, this is also true of me.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · -1 pts · 213d
You would most likely also mention why you were bathing your cat if it was such a rare and unusual occurrence.
Skua@kbin.earth · 19 pts · 213d
If it wasn't a rare and unusual occurrence they probably wouldn't be surprised by what the cat looks like
The tumblr blog here also does not appear to be the original source, it's a general cute animals one, so additional context may well have been removed
Lumidaub@feddit.org · -3 pts · 213d
"This time I remembered to take a picture of my grumpy cat after a bath."
"I honestly never noticed how grumpy my cat looks after bathing lol"
"My cat was exceptionally grumpy this time, lucky I remembered to take a picture."
Occam's razor says they regularly bathe their cat because in certain parts of the world that is what people do.
Skua@kbin.earth · 11 pts · 213d
You assuming this person's habits is not the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions
pyre@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 213d
it's actually funny just how many assumptions were just embedded into that "Occam's razor"
Lumidaub@feddit.org · -3 pts · 213d
Such as?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · -3 pts · 213d
Sorry, I honestly don't understand this sentence.
Skua@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 213d
Occam's razor states that the most likely explanation for something is the one that requires the fewest assumptions. Your explanation - that the cat's owner regularly bathes the cat for no good reason - requires large assumptions about the owner that there is no evidence for. It is therefore not the answer that Occam's razor leads to
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
We gave my cat a bath one time he came home and absolutely reeked, dunno if skunk, or if he got peed on by some predator making an example of him or what. Absolute ammonia nasty smell, terrible. He seemed completely unfazed by it because he's an idiot, maybe he's even a fetishist, I dunno, but he needed to get bathed. We got special shampoo and all that.
And despite looking like the cat in the picture on the left, he didn't look anything like the cat in the picture on the right.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 33 pts · 213d
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!
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 213d
Depends
Mine jumped into the sewer (or something like it in the basement of the house)
I wouldn't think he would like licking disgusting things - and he was pretty cooperative
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 7 pts · 213d
In specific situations, sure. But they don't need regular baths.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 213d
Kittens and older cats can't always clean themselves properly. And sometimes cats just do something incredibly dumb and need rescuing..
Daveyborn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 213d
And the longer haired cats make all of those points so much worse. Got 2, lucky I love em lol.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 213d
I had to wash mine once when she got engine oil in her fur, but yeah self-cleaning is a major sales bullet point of cats.
tomiant@piefed.social · 6 pts · 213d
"Cruelty"... Calm down ffs.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 213d
One of my cats once escaped out of a window at ground level (he managed to dismantle the netting while i slept, it's the only time any cat of mine managed to do something like this), and the big explorer promptly got scared and hid in the insides of a car parked directly outside. He didn't get hurt (except his ego), but was full of oil and dust from the breakpads. That's the only time i thoroughly bathed him (and paid the blood price). You are right of course that bathing isn't something you should do just because, but if the cat is actually full of very unhealthy stuff, i want to prevent him eating all of that while he grooms himself.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d
There's a woman on YouTube who says they need regular bathing "so they can used to it in case they need to be bathed when they get older." That's some strange thinking.
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 213d
My cat gets butt baths, which basically boils down to me using a wet rag and shampoo to try to wash her back end, which constantly smells of urine because she had a stroke and lost control of her bladder and her tail doesn’t move, so it gets dragged through her pee. There are instances of cats needing baths, but generally you’re right they don’t need full on baths like dogs do