So, we'll start by saying, my cat knows scratching the carpet is bad. She immediately knows she's in trouble, and runs as soon as she hears any noise. She has a scratching post, and she looooves scratching it.

So, it'd been weeks since she scratched the carpet. We live in an apartment, so obviously scratching anything but the scratching post is bad, ESPECIALLY the carpet...
Guess what she does? Right beside me, between me and boyfriend, in plain sight, just starts going to town on the carpet as hard as she can...

Obviously, this is not cool. She immediately runs as soon as I turn my head, and books it for the back room. I quickly catch her and immediately turn on the shower and put her under it (getting her back and sides of her legs wet), turn off the shower and leave her in her safe room (got her litterbox on one side, fountain-water bowl and bowl full of food on the other, with places for her to perch and groom herself off)...

I give her thirty minutes to dry herself and clean up, and go to open the door and let her out.. and what streaks past me is matted in kitty litter..

Now, my cat is a digger. We have a covered litter box because she digs with all her might in her box. So it's obvious, right after she got wet, she decided to go in her litter box and dig around. There was litter packed into her paws, stuck under and on her fur all over except her face (cause I didn't get anything wet above the neck, just her back, feet, and probably her belly from when I was putting her down).


So, it's been a few years since she's needed a bath at all. Cats take care of themselves in that regard, all I've needed to do is brush her undercoat out. So I don't have anything other than what I use to bathe myself... which, at midnight, leaves me with a bar of Irish Spring soap, or Head and Shoulders shampoo.

After catching miss kitty, I opted for the bar soap.

What's sad is, though she fought me initially in the bath tub, after she got wet and the kitty litter off and I started to massage in the soap (because OMG she smelled like piss @_@), she actually relaxed and let me soap her up and rinse her off, even stood in the water while I got a towel for her, so I could towel her dry.

And now here it is, almost eighteen hours later... and she still smells like Irish Spring soap.

Don't get me wrong, I know I shouldn't use it to wash her, but I had no choice at that point unless I wanted a cat that smelled like piss, but she smells so good. c.c

I'll be getting some regular cat shampoo at some point, but I don't plan on needing to bathe her again any time soon. I try and save baths for when she has fleas or... well, now also in case she's covered in urine-soaked kitty litter? I don't know... basically, fleas or terrible smells. And I'm not predicting either any time soon (she's indoor only, so there's only so much that can happen).

But yeah. That's what I've been up to. Just random journal post here.
Also, I feel bad that this happened to Bellekitty... even though besides the initial getting wet (and the bath), she did it to herself.