I SERIOUSLY DO NOT THINK SO! THIS IS WORSE THAN THE BUGS!
HOW TO WASH A CAT: In warm weather,
shampoo Puss. Get two sinks or big wash tubs, or those big plastic carrying
tubs... of body temperature water ready; one for soaping, another with
clean water and some vinegar or lemon juice, for rinsing. In Winter, set
up a towel or two and floor heater full blast, get bathroom warm, bring
puss in and lock the doors. Take all china off shelves anywhere near the
basin.
You will be using diluted human shampoo, diluted pet flea shampoo or plain old bar soap. I love IRISH SPRING bars as that stuff is piney natural smelling and kind of goes with cats. Immerse puss slowly, talking in a friendly voice, soap him all over. Caress the spots his mother usually licks so he realizes this is a grooming exercise not an attempted assasination by drowning. Use an old nailbrush or toothbrush to loosen flea refuse on lower spine tail top which accounts for that red color that comes off the cat. Then rinse him in second bucket or sink, or tub. A two sink kitchen basin is great.
After
rinsing him, squeeze him off, wrap him in a towel, sit down in strong sunlight,
put on a big cartwheel straw hat so your neck or headtop or face won't
get sun burnt. YOU NEED the strong sunlight to see the little fleas which
shine copper in natural light only, not in house lightbulbs. Then to pick
individual fleas off. I peel back towel a little from his face, start on
top of head. Then peel back from neck, work that area, then shoulders.
Fleas are suffocating under towel and trying to crawl up to the head, so
this method peels him slowly, like a banana. If he gets antsy, massage
back of brain, neck as it's relaxing.
Or let him loose thirty seconds then start over. Pick off the
fleas 
that
are immobilized by the wet fur and quite visible. They're the color of
copper pennies, very shiny. Squash on table surface or newspaper with fingernail
or drop into a pot of hot water with l drop soap in it.Whatever's faster
for you. Then BRUSH him down.
On cold days, (rare that fleas are a problem then) plop him in front of heater and rub him dry and search for stragglers. If you want, you can use a dry brush to fluff his fur but they'll fluff automatically unless there's soap left unrinsed. I do one cat after another ----while I've got the set up, changing the water for every cat.
A kitten will usually float happily in the warm water of this bath either tummy up or face down, but not face down in water. Make sure he doesn't inhale water as it's very dangerous for pneumonia in the lungs. So don't let him flail and get his own mouth or nose under water. Do not wear gloves as you will be picking off every flea that rises to the top of the fur, throwing it in the sink or a separate container of water.
An older cat who has not been bathed regularly all his life is an anxious customer, and you should wear thick rubber, old, torn dishwashing gloves that you've saved for this, and talk calmly as the low, loving voice is very contagious and calms him right down. Cuz he's wondering. She suddenly trying to KILL ME? So while you talk be fairly quick with the two dunk-scrub-rinse- scrub movements.
DRY the little guy off and make this experience so fun with you talking baby talk and so hair fluffing FEEL GOOD that he thinks about it all night, smelling his nice IRISH SPRING FUR and that PUSS will be BEGGING YOU to have another FUN FLEA BATH tomorrow at the very latest!!
HAHA DREAM ON LADY!
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