Cats hate water. Or so I’ve always been told. But Woody loves to drink out of the toilet; in fact, he gets terribly<\/i> upset if the toilet seat is down, and from time to time he’s been known to pull the lever to watch the water go down.<\/p>\n
The kittens had been outside playing, and I let them in maybe fifteen minutes ago. One, Percival, the one with the long, curly hair, had something icky in his fur. Wasn’t a bug, wasn’t a burr, it was squishy and vaguely nasty looking. So, I picked him up, took him into the bathroom, set him on the counter, wetted down a washcloth, and gave him a bath.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, he enjoyed it. He especially enjoyed when I rolled him up in the towel and dried him off.<\/p>\n
The experience is so odd that I don’t know what to say. I gave a kitten a bath. I’m having trouble getting that phrase to compute. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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