Perry & Water

Unlike oil and water, and unlike MOST cats and water, Perry and water apparently go quite well together. After several days of spilling her water - sometimes multiple times per day - on the kitchen floor, today we decided to take full advantage of the current fascination with water and give her a bath, the first real one in her life. (She has had some partial baths/wipe-downs before but not a full immersion.)

We started slow: we put one of her small water bowls inside a large platter, which she surely could not tip over. She did tip over the small bowl inside it, though, and began playing with the water in the platter. Next, we moved to putting out a little Tupperware tub of water. She played in that, got in and out very quickly several times, and seemed all in all quite pleased with the experience. (The wall and cabinets surrounding the play area did not fare quite as well.) Here's a short video of this (the longer, better video is too large to upload here - you'll have to see it on my Facebook page):



Finally, we graduated her to the bathtub. Ben filled it up a few inches with warm water, then got the small tub and put shampoo and water in it. The bath commenced from there (video is on Facebook as it's too large to upload here), and after a nice dousing, we took her out and she was dried off as thoroughly as possible before being set free again :)



And here ends the "How to Give Your Cat a Bath" lesson.

Now, one more video - this one is of Perry jumping for her animals the other night. Maybe we should enter her in the circus...