I wash ours, though they are strictly indoor cats… because after about a month, they get a kind of weird “litter dust” smell to their fur (yeah, I ask them if they roll in it, too). It also helps me keep an eye out for fleas (even indoor cats get fleas, I have discovered). Though we use Advantage, I still like to give them a good, thorough check to make sure, mostly because our youngest is allergic to them. It seems easier to check them over when their hair is wet and thin and I can see their pink bellies better. 
Kittens! Kittens! Kittens!
My kitties are all grown up. I needs my baby cat fix and I needs it now.
Because she stinks after six weeks or so. 
It also cuts down quite a bit on shedding, and they are sooooo soft after a bath.
When cats lick themsleves, I think it has more to do with “brushing” their coats. I don’t think they actually pretend to “clean” themsleves by licking. After all, they love to go outside and roll around in the dirt on a warm day. How clean should a cat be? I don’t know. But some people get attacked by fleas which cats bring inside.
Those pictures still are funny. Why do people seem to take pictures of cats only when they’re in the sink?
Because the cats are being held down, and therefore staying in one spot long enough to have a proper picture taken.
I had to wash my cats when they were little because they got really smelly and greasy. I’ve only had to wash one once after they grew up, and that was when he fell into a toilet full of urine.
Fell? Oh, no, I’m sure he meant to do that. 
Well, he used to be obsessed with the toilet water flushing, as many young cats are, and also like many young cats his balance wasn’t particularly good. I was standing there doing my belt and heard scrabble scrabble sploosh SPLASH runrunrun…lick
He managed to get urine-water all over the floor, too.
I must tell Lord Pixel Purrbody that he has a little namesake.
…ummmm. he will want to see pix too !
::tapping foot impatiently and still waiting…::
No pictures? Tease!
::whistling Jeopardy final question theme song::
Dogs are covered with spit too, if you have more than one dog.
::Wanders around aimlessly:: <Dead zombie voice>: The pictures…where are the pictures…pictures…
A pic of my daughter’s kitten Sirius to help fend off the withdrawal symptoms, plus one of him after his bath. (When did wet cat pictures become a mandatory requirement and why didn’t I get the memo? Wait, here it is, under Volume 34 of the unwritten rules.)
When they’re doing something cute, you’ve gotta catch it on film!
Thanks !! i needed that !
Haha! I have kittens! Drusilla is on the left, and Darla is on the right. They were about 5 weeks old in this picture. Since this was taken, they’ve been moving too fast to take a decent picture of them.
Yay kittens!
I just finished fostering a cat for our humane society–we can’t neuter them until they weigh at least 2 pounds, and he was at 1.9 pounds. So we fed him canned food for a couple weeks to fatten him up, and when he was good and chubby, I took him back to the shelter. I felt horrible, putting this sweet little guy in a cage (he clung to me and cried and cried), but I know that a darling kitty like him is going to get a good home very soon.
Meanwhile, here’s his picture. If this link is broken, that means he got adopted!
Daniel
Oh yeah? I’ll see your cat and in a sink, and raise you two cats in a sink!
That’s the first thing those two fools did when we moved into this apartment.