Maine Coons just lurve water!

My 1 year old Maine Coon is obsessed with water. Whenever I have a shower, she just has to have the bath tap running so that she can join in. A clean cat is a happy cat!!!

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Pets & Animals

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• Cat
• Maine
• Coon
• water
• bath
• kitty
• cute
• Kiera
• splash
• splashing

[KiaraLupin]

odd My cat loves getting a bath, dosent claw or kick up a fuss actually will climb into the sink for it when i bring out the shampoo. But it hates being brushed.

[FunStuffJax]

Ooh I like it. Kiera wouldn't let me bath her like that, SHE has to be in control. You're so right about the brushing though, she is like the Tasmanian Devil when I attempt that fun past-time!

[BikeToLiveLiveToBike]

they most certainly DO NOT like water. just ask my cat Pumpkin, who would claw your eyes out for just washing your hands near her. lol

[FunStuffJax]

How funny. Pumpkin is reacting exactly how one would expect a cat to behave, God knows why some love it (and it makes their soft fur into a matted knot, so you're lucky!)

[pmoyer50]

My cat must be a part Main Coon. She has the same face, tufted ears, freckled nose but doesn't have the long hair or bushy tail. However, she loves water and just doesn't sit on the edge of the bathtub. She always wades through the water while I'm taking a shower and she lets me wash her down from tip of the tail to the back of her neck with a hand held shower. She loves it and always comes back for more. To turn on the faucet in the sink is like saying, do your paw strokes in the water here.

[FunStuffJax]

Wow, there is NO WAY Kiera would let me do that to her. Yr cat (you didn't mention her name), must be so laid back ... and what a GORGEOUS nature! I have only attempted to wash Kiera a few times in 6 " of bath-water and I wish I'd done so in a swimming costume, cos I've ended up absolutely soaked. She only likes playing with water on her terms, & only when the water is making bubbles or swirling around the plug-hole. If it doesn't make a noise or an interesting pattern, she's not interested!

[FunStuffJax]

Your are SO right. If I filled that bath, and tried to wash her, she'd be like the Tasmanian Devil! When she plays with water it always has to be on her terms.

[SnapeAngel]

yes they like to muck around with it but HATES actual baths!

[jolene607]

Haha, my maine coon, Connie, loves getting a bath, brushing, and any other type of grooming. When I bathe her she just goes limp in my hands like she is really relaxed.

[blake12325]

LURVE

[pmoyer50]

@Inkyminkyzizwoz:She may have been a Turkish Van - I don't know. I no longer have my cat and miss her very much. Because of a change in where I was living, I was given the choice of getting her declawed or finding another home for her. I couldn't do that to my Doye and went through an agency that always finds good adoptive or foster families for cats. She was the cleanest cat on earth, too. Doye was my little buddy and followed me around like a puppy. I never knew such an affectionate cat.

[Inkyminkyzizwoz]

@pmoyer50 Is she a Turkish Van, by any chance? They're classed as long-haired cats, but their furs isn't quite as intense as other long-haired breeds. In their homeland they can be seen swimming in the waters of Lake Van and are sometimes known as 'swimming cats'!