The Hers and His Guide to Bathing Your Cat

Our new guest blogger, Buster, has become a key player in the Hers and His day to day adventures. So much so that we've taken a temporary hiatus from writing to catch him up on all he's missed in the past year since we've started the blog. Now he knows what he's in fur in the years to come, and he gets what is funny and what's funny to Zane. Let us resume our tail of loving and learning...

[Editor's Note: Now that we're cat people, expect about 75% of our posts to be about our cat, and 20% to be written by our cat. The remaining 5% will just be photos of our cat being so cute you just won't know what to do with yourself.]

So when we first got Buster, his foster mom gave us the low down on everything there was to know about him:

• His name was Smokey.


• He was a Russian Blue.


• He was skittish.


• He likes baths.

Things she left off that list:

• Buster is a wayyyy better name than Smokey.


• Russian Blue's are hypoallergenic.


• He is not skittish when your TV is no longer at the highest possible volume level it can go while tuned to the Latin music station.


• He likes water.

Being new proud parents, we wanted Buster's transition to be as easy as possible for him. So in the first week, we changed his name, cut off his balls and brought him on a 3.5 hour car ride. If he was going to survive living with us, we'd throw him in 100%. He aced the test and was a GREAT trooper! The meds might have helped with that. The doctors warned us he might be acting a bit stranger than normal after the surgery and we assured them that we had no idea what normal was, but we would love him till his balls stopped hurting. In an effort of solidarity, Zane agreed to stop licking his no-no area as well for the 2 weeks of recovery. I think Buster appreciated the sense of brotherhood.

Over the next four weeks we learned Buster's likes and dislikes and found that he LOVES water. Running, stagnent, in a bowl, in a tub, he sees it, he wants it. We have timed him and from the second the faucet turns on to the time a whisker is in your toothbrush, takes about .01 seconds. Constantly he is waiting for you to shower or brush just so he can watch the wonders of water. Where does it go once it goes down the drain? Where does it come from out of the spout? Why do I gross everyone out when I lick the drain stopper? What's so bad about having your legs licked dry after a shower?

When the one month mark hit for his flea treatment (via a flea and tick shampoo), we actually believed what his foster mom had told us. Buster LOVES baths! And how could he not? He's always getting in the water and loves being rubbed. Why not combine the two???

If you ever have this thought, please learn from our mistakes.

Step ONE: Trim his claws!!!!! Momma didn't think about this one and it left Zane looking like he was an emo teenager.

Step TWO: Find a cat who loves BATHS.

Step Two was where we really ran into some issues. But you see, once you commit to terrorizing your cat, you've got to follow through. The little furball sure was adorable all wet and skinny! His big ol' eyes just glowed with joy as he splashed and splashed his way through his first bath with his new parents. Yes, it took two of us. 4 hands to help? No no no... do you even know us?! 2 people because...

Step THREE: Film your cat being given a bath!

You're welcome folks. Sit back and enjoy our new baby having his first bath. Please don't mind the nudity, we're still figuring out how to get him to wear pants, let alone a bathing suit.