Close to Home by John McPherson for May 15, 2024

that about covers it

True story!

could also apply to giving a cat a pill

I’m confused. What happened here?

Cat-Astrophe Shampoo … wash and rinse!

Enough said!

I know a grooming place that would have a window screen laid on top of the tub. The cat would be placed on the screen, doused with a bucket of cold water, and scrubbed easily once its claws were engaged in the screen.

LOL! I have a few war wounds from bathing and pilling cats!

We had a cat once that loved bath times. You couldn’t run the water with him in the room. For some reason that scared him away for the moment. Noise maybe? But once it was run, I would call him in there and he would hop into the tub and wait to be doused and scrubbed. I referred to him as my dog in a cat suit.

For pets that need medication…ask the vet if the medicine can be compounded. Easier to give it to them as a with flavoring.

Vets are now offering cat shampoos with clotting agents to help control your bleeding.

A lesson learned.

That was catastrophic!

Outstanding work, John! More than worthy of a rerun!

When our cat got skunk-sprayed I got a 5 gallon bucket, filled it with warm water, added some dish soap and a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide then dropped the cat into my fishing net, gave it a spin to hold him in, and gave him several good dunkings in the bucket. After dumping him out of the net and giving him a good toweling he was as good as new except instead being black he was a dark chocolate color after the peroxide had bleached him a bit. Best of all no scratches!

Not much of an exaggeration.

She got off easy.

This was the last time Mabel tried to bathe the cat…

There were no survivors.

Cats are just Rats with color.

NOT ENOUGH DEPICTION OF BLOOD!

Smart cat owners get acquainted with Purretios and oversized handbags. Purretios for pill giving and you cut holes in an old handbag for head, legs and tail then use the bag handles to hang the cat up over the sink. Then give the cat a small towel to sink his claws into while bathing the cat.

I had a Siamese who had to be wrapped in a towel and held by two people just to wash his head. As far as I could tell, he was able to get traction on air molecules.

Ha! Law & Order Special Feline Unit.

That cat fights dirty.

Fortunately this was pre-Bleeb, so Bleebs were harmed in the process.

the cat did it…in the living room…with its claws…

After seeing the size of the shampoo bottle I’m wondering how big the cat was. :)

Well this is funny…not sure if an algorithm played a part in this or if it’s strictly coincidence, but an ad that popped up above the comic was for a pet hospital, and an ad that popped up below it was for United Healthcare insurance…LOL!!

By Bob Seger.

“Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty, little ball of fur,…”

This is really funny — LOLOL

Me-Ow!

Awwww, is she taking a cat nap?

Much Regretting life choices followed

Tried to trim my GFs cat’s claws (did my own cat’s with no problem). A real fighter, and the only way was if she was in the right mood, and we’d wrap her like a purrito.

Clearly she lost the fight

I think that’s why you really don’t give cats baths. Unless, they really, really, really need it. LOL.

When I first glanced at today’s comic, I must have looked from the right first. I was thinking, “Hm. That is what the scene would look like if she tried to bathe a cat.” Then I saw the bottle of cat shampoo.

Goes to prove the only thing a cat is good for is measuring a room