We used to have a rescued stray cat. He’d spend the night outdoors and sometimes came home smelling ripe. I’d don leather jacket and gauntlets and the wife would bathe him. It wasn’t fun.
Skunk whiz? Possum pee? Try a lemon wass, first, to neutralize the smell, then give him a “kitty valium” before the bath. Take 2 yourself, with a dbl scotch. You’ll still get ripped to shreds, but you won’t give a crap. LOL.
The difference between how dogs and cats view the world:
You go to the shelter, pick skinny dog, take it home, bathe it, feed it, put weight on it and the dog thinks you must be God.
You go to the shelter, pick skinny cat and do the same as the dog and the cat thinks it must God.