Bathing the cat...

It's that time of year again: I had to give the cat a bath! I've realised now what happens: whenever I make my annual ILT trip in March (which is the end of winter in Spain), Teddi has a few weeks where no one brushes him. Eventually he just stops grooming himself - presumably because he's sick of getting huge mouthfuls of hair. So a couple of weeks after I'm back home and have taken the scissors to him to cut off all the dreadlocks, I notice that he has un unkempt, greasy-hair look. I now know that this is not the symptom of an underlying disease, but rather is the consequence of his not washing himself for a couple of weeks. A mild shampoo sorts things out and returns him to his handsome fluffy self again. Here (above) is the wet boy on his towel, after he had forgiven me for covering him in bubbles and giving him a cold shower. He'll now begin to groom himself again and will soon have his sleek and shiny coat back. (below)