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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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Why are people upvoting you is beyond my comprehension.
The fact that you were kids and made a mistake doesn't mean that you can't/shouldn't bathe a kitten!!!!
Just make sure you prepare for the task: use warm water and wash the kitten from tail to neck - it's better to avoid the head and anyway there's little to no fleas on the head. I'm no vet, but I got this advice from my vet when I found a flea infested kitten under my car.
So, for people reding this: yes, you can bathe your kitten, but get some advice from your vet beforehand!
Personally, if there's even a 1% chance of something killing a kitten, I don't do that thing.
Definitely talk to your very first, if you absolutely want to give them a bath, but they clean themselves with their tongues, so absolutely not necessary whatsoever.
Then again almost everything has a 1% of killing anything, the world's pretty dangerous. So - with a vets opnion - bathing a kitten to remove discomfornt isnt all bad news.
Great example is im sure many kittens have died eating before, but of course we still feed them