Bathing Cats

Every summer around this time Ellen bathes any and all cats in the house, whether they like it or not, and they never do. The main reason is it removes a lot of cat dander, dried saliva, excess hair, and other stuff that some people are allergic to, and in each group of summer visitors we get, there's at least one person allergic to cats. We didn't get to it in time for my sister-in-law Lena this year, but Ellen's sister Ann is coming in August, and she's very allergic.

Katie, our older...