How do you give a cat a bath without getting hurt or hurting your cat?

Answer 1

Gently hold your cat by the scruff of the neck, it's very hard to hurt the cat this way as this is how the mother cat carries her kittens. Slowly and while talking gently run the warm water (make sure it's not to hot or cold) and slowly use your hand to run water over your cat. Give the cat time to get used to the feel of the water and then continue with the bath

Answer 2

Not every cat will tolerate being bathed, quite a few cats will freak out no matter what you try to do to keep the cat relaxed.

But some things that often help to relax the cat during bathing:

• Prepare a small unused litter box with a folded towel in the bottom so the cat has something soft that it can put its claws in to steady itself during the bath, fill with comfortably warm water.
• Only use comfortably warm water, either chilling or scalding the cat during a bath will make it fear baths.
• Hold the cat as gently as possible with one hand during the bath (unless you have an assistant).
• If possible use a very large soft plastic tumbler to gently pour water over the cat to wet the fur before applying the shampoo and afterwards to rinse out the shampoo from the fur.
• When done, gently towel the cat dry to remove most of the water, but let it finish by shaking itself the rest of the way dry and finish itself with its tongue.

Answer 3

If you think your cat might hurt you wear long sleeves and gloves that you dont mind getting wet