Removing oil from a cat

[ARW]

I guess the daft sod slept under a car

Any suggestions or just leave it?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not good to leave it since cat will try and lick it off.

Mild detergent/shampoo after wrapping cat in claw proof towel

[Adrian Caspersz]

It's a bit punk but the wrong colour. Try green or purple-pink next time?

[Robin]

Rub with w/u liquid or Swarfega and wipe off with moist towel/rag.

Repeat until cat digs through towel you've wrapped round it/scratches its way through your welding gloves :)

Could just be from running under a car and and rubbing against sump plug. Used to happen a lot more in the good old days when very many cars dripped oil.

[ARW]

Oh yes - I had a go with the neighbours help. It took Toby 3 seconds to decide to piss off.

[ss]

First thing is to disable the cat.....and good luck.

[ARW]

The vet is a Vulcan?

[tabbypurr]

Don't apply any cleaner that you don't know is cat safe, some are toxic to cats. Also applying any sort of cleaner is the best way to seriously piss o ff any cat. Just use wrung out wet cloths heated in the mcirowave to get wh at you can off, and go to vet pronto. The oil may be too toxic to leave it on. You can also ask advice here

NT

[The Natural Philosopher]

[The Natural Philosopher]

Jesus F Christ.

Shampoo isn't toxic to animals

WTF are you doing on a DIY group? You sound like you belong in the NetNannys

[Tim Streater]

Not something I'd attempt to fix myself. I'd consult a vet - they may either wash it off with appropriate detergent or trim the fur.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I simply do not believe it.

Have you never had to wash oil off a cat before? Have you never owned a cat before? Or perhaps all the cars these days don't have oily sumps.

You need a helper to wrap most of the cat in a towel so it cant scratch.

Then use swarfega and a good rinse, or a solvent like alcohol first and a shampoo afterwards.

The cat will give you an old fashioned look, crap in your shoes and disappear for a week, but that's an added bonus.

[Tim Streater]

Nope.

I was adopted by one in the US of A, back here I inherited twin tortoiseshell ones, one of which skipped town or possibly ended up on someone's dinner plate. That was in 1997. Then I got married and merged our two cats.

Since moving to the snow-covered mountains of Kent, those two have pegged it, of two replacements one skipped town and one was run over. Of their three replacements, one skipped town, one was run over, we still have the last one, although he was also hit by a car and now has a leg that is not attached to his hip. Not that you'd notice, he runs around at 900mph with no apparent trouble.

Correct.

Some cats will put up with that and some won't.

[Stuart Noble]

+1

[The Natural Philosopher]

The trick is to not give it a choice.

[ARW]

The cat f***ed off when it saw the sink full of water.

[Graham.]

Given that most of us have hot and cold running water, why use the microwave?

[Richard]

To heat up the damp cloths.

[Andrew Gabriel]

When my cat at the time (40 years ago) did this, I washed it off with Swarfega, and then washed the Swarfega off with something (soap I think), and rinsed well. This was the vet's advice at the time, but I wouldn't make any assumptions that Swarfega is the same stuff it was 40 years ago. ISTR vet said if we couldn't get it off, bring the cat in and they'd trim the fur off. Cat mustn't wash it off itself (used engine oil is quite toxic, much more so than new engine oil).

Two of us held the cat by the front and back feet and dunked her in a small pie dish just immersing her back to rinse it. We got through that OK, but the poor thing looked terrible with soaking wet fur all bunched into a punk mohican hairstyle. We did try a hair drier but that was a bridge too far, so rubbed her with kitchen roll, which also confirmed the oil was all off (cat was black, so not so easy to tell when she was still wet anyway).

In the next 20 years, she never did it again.

[PeterC]

Try Ecover or Bio-D washing up liquid. If the specs haven't changed too much since I last saw the H&S Data Sheet, the undiluted pH is 5.5 (far lower than detergent-based ones), it's soap based on coconut oil and the advice on ingestion was roughly 'don't drink too much of it at once'! - probably not acceptable nowadays. Rub it neat into the oily patches and rinse. Possibly start with some Johnson's baby oil to remove most of the engine oll. I used the washing up liquid when I was away from home for about 20 years - good for shower, shampoo, clothes etc. and a 150ml bottle would last 2 weeks.. I've never noticed it sting my eyes, unlike almost all other things. Here's wishing you a a clean, soft pussy.