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My cat will only drink water from a measuring jug in the middle of our bath. He'll make us follow him into the bathroom then wait for us to put him in. He's become very lazy. Usually there's just a tiny bit of water in the bath from someone's shower or bath but he just flicks his feet and carries on drinking the water. Today, there was a bit more than water...
I lifted Tiggs into the bath whilst eating some bread and watched as he found it hard to move, then started sliding around, slipping frantically and trying to jump out of the bath but slipping and smacking into the side of the bath instead. I have to admit, it was pretty funny to watch. I didn't know what the hell was going on, he's normally fine. Then I saw the bottle of shower gel in the bath with no lid on and saw the clear gel spilled the entire way down the bath. My poor cat's feet were covered in it!
He then got out the bath and slipped some more on the floor for a while whilst I tried to get him to drink out of the jug on the floor for once. He decided that yes, he was thirsty enough to break a habit of a lifetime but only for about 3 seconds. Tiggs then went to lick his paw and it clicked that having a cat licking off a ton of shower gel could not be healthy at all. Oh god.
We've had Tiggs for about 10 years I guess and in that time we've never given him any baths. He's a cat, it's not what is done. I knew this would be a challenge... Especially as I had to do it quietly as it was nearly 1am.
First of all I thought there would only be a tiny amount really, so I filled up the sink a bit, held him over it and dunked his feet in. He did actually let me do this for a bit. He's a lovely cat and never attacks you, luckily, but he does wriggle and meow. This only seemed to make things worse however as now he had soapy clogged paws and I noticed his whole backside was soapy too. Crap.
I realised bigger things were in order so I rinsed the bath of all the soap and filled almost the whole bottom of it with tepid water. He's new to his, I thought even paddling in it would be a problem. I was very right. I must have put my poor cat in the bath and watched him scream at least 7 times over. Every time I'd then calm him down, get him purring again, give him a cuddle then do it again. Such betrayal! A lot of dirt came off him... but he still looked majorly soapy.
In the end I opted for holding him and scrubbing him with a wet towel. It could have been fine, but I really didn't want to take the risk and let him lick off something that could harm him.
I'd now been in the bathroom a while, turning on and off taps, so my mum came and saw what was up. Tiggs then head-butted his way out of the bathroom once he remembered about the freedom from the water outside of it and my mum decided that hairdryering him a bit may help. I forget why we thought that would work. He hates things that make noise and he hates wind. My mum then sat with him on her lap and I aimed the hairdryer at the coolest and lowest setting possible at the worst areas, mainly to see if they'd dry or not or if they're stuck together. When we saw they were fine we let him be free and he's been cleaning himself obsessively since. He better be ok...
Poor thing, he was so happy when he first came in...
I lifted Tiggs into the bath whilst eating some bread and watched as he found it hard to move, then started sliding around, slipping frantically and trying to jump out of the bath but slipping and smacking into the side of the bath instead. I have to admit, it was pretty funny to watch. I didn't know what the hell was going on, he's normally fine. Then I saw the bottle of shower gel in the bath with no lid on and saw the clear gel spilled the entire way down the bath. My poor cat's feet were covered in it!
He then got out the bath and slipped some more on the floor for a while whilst I tried to get him to drink out of the jug on the floor for once. He decided that yes, he was thirsty enough to break a habit of a lifetime but only for about 3 seconds. Tiggs then went to lick his paw and it clicked that having a cat licking off a ton of shower gel could not be healthy at all. Oh god.
We've had Tiggs for about 10 years I guess and in that time we've never given him any baths. He's a cat, it's not what is done. I knew this would be a challenge... Especially as I had to do it quietly as it was nearly 1am.
First of all I thought there would only be a tiny amount really, so I filled up the sink a bit, held him over it and dunked his feet in. He did actually let me do this for a bit. He's a lovely cat and never attacks you, luckily, but he does wriggle and meow. This only seemed to make things worse however as now he had soapy clogged paws and I noticed his whole backside was soapy too. Crap.
I realised bigger things were in order so I rinsed the bath of all the soap and filled almost the whole bottom of it with tepid water. He's new to his, I thought even paddling in it would be a problem. I was very right. I must have put my poor cat in the bath and watched him scream at least 7 times over. Every time I'd then calm him down, get him purring again, give him a cuddle then do it again. Such betrayal! A lot of dirt came off him... but he still looked majorly soapy.
In the end I opted for holding him and scrubbing him with a wet towel. It could have been fine, but I really didn't want to take the risk and let him lick off something that could harm him.
I'd now been in the bathroom a while, turning on and off taps, so my mum came and saw what was up. Tiggs then head-butted his way out of the bathroom once he remembered about the freedom from the water outside of it and my mum decided that hairdryering him a bit may help. I forget why we thought that would work. He hates things that make noise and he hates wind. My mum then sat with him on her lap and I aimed the hairdryer at the coolest and lowest setting possible at the worst areas, mainly to see if they'd dry or not or if they're stuck together. When we saw they were fine we let him be free and he's been cleaning himself obsessively since. He better be ok...
Poor thing, he was so happy when he first came in...
This was finished over a period of 3 days where it's all I did. It's so jerky as I didn't have time to do all the frames I needed to. I finished it off this morning after getting just 2 hours sleep inbetween filming it, then charging the battery of my camera after an hour.
The sound isn't great quality... but I'm no studio lady. The voices are done by Matt Dayton as he is a great voice person of great voice ways, I shall be bugging him to do it again :P. Unfortunately I had to use my own voice at times when putting all the sound in this morning as the whooole animation is basically completely different to my script as they didn't give us enough time to do both animations well AND the essay.
*breaths*
Oh yeah, sorry it's orange and just photographed, I had no time to scan it and photoshop it either.
Uni is now done until September, w00t.
The sound isn't great quality... but I'm no studio lady. The voices are done by Matt Dayton as he is a great voice person of great voice ways, I shall be bugging him to do it again :P. Unfortunately I had to use my own voice at times when putting all the sound in this morning as the whooole animation is basically completely different to my script as they didn't give us enough time to do both animations well AND the essay.
*breaths*
Oh yeah, sorry it's orange and just photographed, I had no time to scan it and photoshop it either.
Uni is now done until September, w00t.
This is the almost final edition of Parsley Girl with the 3 other people's work added to after mine and Sachiko's shadow part... I had to seriously squash it down to get it to run on the internet and it rendered badly anyway... ach.
Stress just set in. Oh god, make it go away.
I can't write essays. Especially not in a week.
I'm about to watch Neighbours for the first time in about 3 weeks. This makes Wedge into a happy Wedge.
To most people on flickr, I only have 59 pages. In reality there's 210.
I need to buy new converses as mine have a hole in, making them painful to wear.
I also need to buy a million film noir and hitchcock films so I can write this essay properly.
I'm beginning to wish I'd had more for breakfast, my stomach is complaining.
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