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A Bath for Widget
Feb. 6th, 2021 01:33 amIt had come up many times over the years, but I be didn't think it was likely to happen. Still, today (technically yesterday), Widget had a problem in the litter box. It left him dirty enough that there was no question that we had to wash him.
So we grabbed him, put him in the bathtub and locked ourselves in with him. Then we turned on the tub faucet. Widget was terrified, of course. He'd never been bathed before.
Long story short, we cleaned him pretty well with Dawn blue dishwashing detergent; they use it on oil-soaked birds, so I figured that it would be safe for him. He let out some really heartrending cries and clawed the shower curtain down (making a few claw-holes in the process), but we washed him well.
We were both surprised at how he looked soaked. We'd expected him to look much smaller. We were also surprised at how little blood we lost; we both got scratched, but not too badly and he didn't try to bite at all.
We dried him as best we could and left him in the bathroom for a couple of hours to dry himself off. When he emerged he seemed surpassingly calm. Although when I went upstairs to scrub the tub, Sebastian told me that Widget reacted strongly to the sound of water from upstairs. He actually snuggled against Sebastian! I wonder what he was thinking?
So we grabbed him, put him in the bathtub and locked ourselves in with him. Then we turned on the tub faucet. Widget was terrified, of course. He'd never been bathed before.
Long story short, we cleaned him pretty well with Dawn blue dishwashing detergent; they use it on oil-soaked birds, so I figured that it would be safe for him. He let out some really heartrending cries and clawed the shower curtain down (making a few claw-holes in the process), but we washed him well.
We were both surprised at how he looked soaked. We'd expected him to look much smaller. We were also surprised at how little blood we lost; we both got scratched, but not too badly and he didn't try to bite at all.
We dried him as best we could and left him in the bathroom for a couple of hours to dry himself off. When he emerged he seemed surpassingly calm. Although when I went upstairs to scrub the tub, Sebastian told me that Widget reacted strongly to the sound of water from upstairs. He actually snuggled against Sebastian! I wonder what he was thinking?
