'Always wash your raw chickens thoroughly': How to properly bathe baby sphynx kittens in your sink (shower caps are required)

For most people, the idea of bathing a cat sparks disastrous thoughts. Your flying feline hardly agrees to touch the water in his bowl with his fuzzy cheeks, there's no way that you could sedate that feisty fur-ball long enough to actually wash them in the tub with a full bath and bubbles. Fortunately for regular cats, you don't really need to bathe them– they stay clean all by themselves. However, for a hairless wonder like a sphynx cat…

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… it's a different story. These nekkid chimkens have the wrinkliest, floppiest skin in the world, which requires a bath every now and them. Luckily these delicate angel kittens will allow to you to bathe them as long as you follow a few key steps. 

Step 1: You gotta cover those extra terrestrial ears of theirs. Water cannot (I REPEAT, CANNOT) get into their little noggin holes. The cattos are fragile enough, they don't need to be waterlogged on top of that. It's shower cap time.

Step 2: A mat (or something) MUST be placed over the hole in the sink. Fortunately, kittens are smol enough to bathe in the sink, but their also smol enough to slip into that garbage disposal hole and disappear forever. Avoid any ‘Hi Georgie’ action from deep down in the drain. Keep your kittos comfortable!

Step 3: Admire their cuteness.

Step 4: GET TO WORK. Scrub those beans, get soap all up in their nether regions. Remember, these cutlets need your monster hand to clean themselves so you gotta be thorough. If your kittens are kind angels, like our example litter here, you won't need protective riot gear to shield you from their mean mittens.

You'll be reminded every step of the way just how adorable these little wrinkle-boys are. Do not get distracted!

Step 5: Check to make sure your shower caps did the trick and kept their earsies dry. 

Step 6: Clip those toe bean knives. Now's your only chance– while they're all sleepy and groggy from being sink-stressed. 

Step 7: Dry the beans. Believe it or not, those toe beans hold water. And we certainly don't want a molding sphynx on our hands.

Step 8: Leave them to dry under a food warmer. Now your cutlets are nice and clean! Time to warm them up and ship off the final, shiny product. You'll have to do this again in a month, so at least you've got this one under your belt. 

Spa day for the kittens