Washing machine cat is not amused.

For some reason these guys put a cat into a machine with water jets. The cat is not at all amused.
swampgirlsays...

Well, it's not exactly the friendliest way to wash a cat. But after having as many pets as I have, I've lost some sympathy from the hell they've given me over the years getting their bath.

It only took a cat sinking his fangs in my leg once to know there is no easy way to wash a cat. I rarely washed my cats, but when I did got into a closed shower stall w/ a hand sprayer and let them have it. It's the only way.

enonsays...

I lawled so hard. That's not any meaner than washing your cat the normal way (in the sink with a detachable sink head) except this way YOU don't come out all bloody. People are over reacting way to much, it's just water people!!!

supersaiyan93says...

anybody downvoting this has never had the wondrous experience of washing a cat before.

Cat bathing is a martial art.

btw, the best thing about this video is the cat's seeming expression at the end. The "I'll kill you in your sleep for this" expression. lol.

moodoniasays...

Well I've bathed many cats over the years without any problems so I think whoever invented a device where you confine an animal in an enclosed space and then start it filling with water needs to be kicked in the balls. Hard.

MarineGunrocksays...

Filling it with water? It doesn't fill up at all.

And confining them to an enclosed space? What? You mean you've never put an animal in a carrier before? This thing is a hell of a lot bigger than a cat carrier.

atarasays...

I'm wondering if it would freak them out less to have the water come down on then rather than bubble up from the floor, and if the cabin was a bit smaller.

But yeah, upvoting. I've had to wash cats (they usually clean themselves, but sometimes get into something sticky, or ill, and they can't get it all themselves), and even if you did it in the bathtub they still react like this.

ravensays...

True, in general they can keep themselves pretty clean, but sometimes they run afoul things you don't want them licking out of their fur... my one cat, the fluffiest, hardest to wash one (of course), has the unfortunate habit of walking under cars, periodically, her gigantic plume of a tail will run up underside the vehicle... you can imagine the result.

Pain in the ass to give this cat a bath? Hell yeah.
Am I going to let her lick motor oil out of her fluff? Hell no.

ravensays...

PS. I feel terrible having laughed my ass off at this vid. But it brings to mind something from a few years back...

I used to work for one of my professors who had a lot of animals (her back porch is a walk in aviary, she has a tortoise garden out back, etc), and who also does volunteer work rehabilitating birds and injured wildlife, including stray and feral cats. She once told me that the best strategy for quickly taming a semi feral cat if you needed to get it to be amenable to being handled (say, if you really had to get it out of wherever it was living and see that it was safely sent to a shelter or relocated), the best way was to put it in the shower... not kidding, she had one of those closet like showers with a glass door she used for this, her exact words about this process were something like, "You put it in there, turn it on, and then wait and let the cat get good and demoralized... then you rescue it! And that and the feeling of being toweled off will usually change its mind about things".

She did acknowledge that this was a terrible thing to watch, but sometimes, apparently, it just had to be done... and I can totally see her doing it too, crazy cat ladies rule.

Issykittysays...

All right. MG, I realize I couldn't vote this up earlier because I had watched your other video first (about cat and dog abuse) and was really emotionally upset by it. Being in a bad state, I overreacted to this video so I will vote it up now. I STILL would be pissed if someone did this to my cat, but I guess there was really no real harm done.

Oh- and Raven, that was a very good story!

jmdsays...

haha, man cats do NOT like that. However that machine is about as unsettling to look at as it is for the cat to be in it. Theres an animated image of someone using a machine that looks just like that, but its totaly unmarked. Replys from people convinced it was torturing the cat flooded in.

I think they need a designed that gets approved by the PR department.

smibbosays...

geeziz people, you really think that bathing a cat is unreasonable torture? Why? Just because the cat doesn't like it?

My kids don't like taking a shower or washing their hair. I still force them to do it on a regular basis.

Cats soemtimes get into nasty stuff that they shouldn't be licking - as Raven said, MOTOR OIL is one. What's cruel is letting your cat lick dead animal, feces or toxic substances off itself and die a slow agonizing death later.

Goofball_Jonessays...

Sorry, I didn't laugh one time. In fact, it was a bit heart-breaking as the kitty is put in there and he's looking around, a little curious...trusting that his humans wouldn't do anything mean to him. Then they break that trust.

It's just cruel. You know, water-boarding doesn't really hurt or kill you...so maybe we should do that to all you that liked this and just say "I laughed my ass off...look at him squirming like he's drowning! Oh come on, he's not REALLY being hurt....I LOL'ED!"

Fucking morons.

Sarzysays...

I don't think I'm quite as offended by this as Goofball, but I do have to agree that it's pretty mean. And smibbo, the difference between giving a cat a bath and a child, is at least the child will understand what you're doing to him, and why he needs to take a bath, whereas the cat has no way of understanding that (and I really don't think this cat had any motor oil on it). I think this is cruel for the same reason that I think it's cruel to prolong a sick pet's life with surgeries or needles or anything really invasive like that. The pet can't understand that it's in pain for its own good. It just knows that you're hurting it and it'll never understand why.

ravensays...

While I am of the mind and conviction that sometimes cats just need to be washed... (another catastic example: when mine were kittens they had this unfortunate habit of crapping on one another in the litter box, like it was some sort of group activity, for a while there, I was bathing them at least every other day), I do think that this is probably more cruel than doing it yourself... at least when I have to wash one of them (I recommend suiting up in a thick wool long sleeved shirt and heavy rubber gloves), I am right there with her, talking to her, petting her, and generally keeping her calm. They're pretty good at dealing with it, to some extent, and after the initial shock of the water they tend to relax a bit and not fight back... by the end of the experience they're usually pretty sedate, the one even lets me use the blow drier on her (a must as her massive amounts of fluff will mat otherwise). They're never happy about it, but they deal (although the small neurotic one has a habit of grabbing the faucet with her front paws and holding on for dear life- so heartrending!- fortunately she usually keeps herself OCD clean).

With this thing however, poor kitty is just all alone in the box, and seems much more agitated than mine ever get over the ordeal... so I can't help but think that it is slightly cruel... although for some cats (my brother's for instance, who was a stray who decided to live with us and barely lets us pet him let alone pick him up or bathe him), a device like this would be useful if it had to be done.

ravensays...

Also, I just watched this again (god I am ashamed at myself), and I noticed at the end that it says "He Survived and smelled better, but he was not a happy kitty"

So maybe there was a good reason kitty had to be washed... maybe he got skunked or something.

smibbosays...

wow, overreact much people?

Its cruel to do it for entertainment, it's necessary evil to do it for a bona-fide reason. Like it or not, sometimes you have to do unpleasant things to someone for their own good.

And BTW maybe you don't have kids but kids who hate being bathed generally don't understand WHY its necessary - like my 4 month old - sometimes she is okay with it, sometimes she protests mightily. Whether its "traumatic" or not, she needs to be bathed occasionally and all the screaming in the world isn't going to make me feel so guilty I'll forego it. By the time they get old enough to understand about hygeine they are usually past the shrieking screaming phase and can wash themselves just fine. I've had two kids who FREAKED about getting bathed until they were about 10 years old. I still made them bathe, as traumatic as it seemed. They appear to be unscathed from those torturous baths and showers I inflicted upon them and seem to enjoy their showers now.


I had to bathe my kitten once on a regular basis because he had some kind of skin infestation (from the shelter I got him from most likely since he's a total indoors cat) and I had to bathe him with a special shampoo - wash it in, leave it on for ten minutes anmake sure he didn't try to lick it off. So there you go: a very important reason for washing my cat that needed to be addressed. YES sometimes a cat needs to be washed.

Frankly I think that spa thing specifically isn't much substitute for hand-washing but if I ran a shelter or kennel or animal hospital I can see how it might come in handy.

smibbosays...

Sarzy - I ask again; what is "painful" or "cruel" about washing a cat? As stated many times by several different people there are some instances whereby bathing a cat is in its own best interest so what you're saying is that because the cat doesn't like it it shouldn't be done. Sorry, animals regularly have to go through things they don't like - ask any vet.

So you don't immunize your pets either? Cuz its cruel?

Sarzysays...

I think washing a cat is an exception rather than the rule. Generally they do a pretty decent job of keeping themselves clean. But if you do have to wash a cat (and I'm not convinced that the cat in the video really needed to be washed), I certainly think there are better ways than sticking it in a big machine and having a good laugh when it (justifiably) flips out (and filming it too, so that everyone all over the world can have a good laugh at your cat being traumatized).

Arsenault185says...

Did anyone who's up in arms about this stop and think that maybe this was a feral cat, and before rescue vets can give it a thorough examination, it had to be washed? well seems to me to be the safest way to clean the animal with out the danger of the animal causing infection in the people treating it.. Don't just assume things, you have to think a little bit, "hey, maybe theres a reason they are doing it this way..."

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demon_ixsays...

While I understand the hassle involved in washing an unwilling cat, as I've done to my own cat quite a few times, HELL NO!

That's the most absurdly evil thing I've ever seen. Just watching him frantically jump around to find a way out makes me sad.

Winstonfield_Pennypackersays...

The cat freaking out is hilarious. Every cat has different reactions to getting wet. Some cats HATE it and are very difficult to bathe by hand, and can sometimes be quite dangerously wild. For such an animal, this machine is by no means 'cruel'. Just an efficient, effective way to bathe an animal that otherwise would be slicing open your jugular.

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GeeSussFreeKsays...

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Oh, and cats generally don't need to be washed, because they have the enviable ability to lick every square inch of their own body.


Perhaps with house cats, but ally cats that you rescue do need a good bath. Being as they are covered in filth, and have a tendency to get violent when exposed to water, the risk of infection for the both of you is pretty great. The cat freaks out but at least he is clean and ready for a new owner, filth free!

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