Lovin' these stories. I used to bathe my ccats Yom Yipper and Binky. Yip was easy, just touch his left ear and he laid quietly in my arm while I bathed him. Binky - not so much. I wore long rubber gloves to bathe her cause she bit and scratched with her back claws. Nasty little bugger. I have a few war wounds from her.
then one day my vet said - why are you athing these cats? Let them alone they'll take care of themselves unless they fall into a vat of tar or something. So, that was the end of Binky's baths. Yip still got them, cause he liked them!