We've *adopted* a stray cat here at work. We paid to have her fixed (amazingly, with some help from the state for *taking care* of a stray) - boy, did I ever have to scrabble to catch and cage her! Anyway, she's ok around people, but she does have her moments when she'll bite or scratch. I can't begin to imagine how she'd react to getting a bath!

I'm sure the cat would be much happier if you'd work with some really, really expensive fabric with equally expensive beads with which he could play...with claws...out...

Brave woman.

My boy, Jack, likes to sit on the edge of the tub and soak his tail while I take a bubble bath, but heaven forbid I ever try to give him an actual bath.

My older girl will get soaking wet sitting under the faucet drinking water drops, but if I even shake my damp hands in her direction, she races off like I tried to drown her. My youngest girl is just plain terrified of water (I suspect someone may have tried to drown her before I adopted her because when I first brought her home, I was holding her and she saw the water in the toilet and freaked out - I still have the claw marks to prove it - she's calmer now, but still is afraid of water).

I love when cats get indignant. It's just so darn cute.