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▲[[File:baths-cats_copy_4595.jpg|frame|[[Big No|NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]]!!!]]
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Compare to [[Hates Baths]].
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== Advertising ==
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the ''[[
* Possibly explained in an episode of ''[[Darker
* [[Pokémon (
== Comic Books ==
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== Film ==
* In the 60's [[Batman]] movie, Catwoman angrily screams this line at The Penguin when it looks like Batman and Robin are [[So Bad
* Mowgli's strategy against Shere Khan in 1942's ''[[Jungle Book (
* ''[[Homeward Bound]]'', the cat and the dogs get separated because the cat goes to look for a way to cross the river without getting wet.
* ''[[Star Trek V:
* ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'' - Geena Davis's cat gets knocked into the pool by Woody the pool man who crows "Whoa, shoot the curl, kitty! Those little dudes love the water, huh?" As the cat swims to shore, its face tells otherwise.
== Literature ==
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[
* The cats from three of the Clans in the ''[[
* Played [[Nightmare Fuel|deadly serious]] in the [[Redwall]] book ''Mossflower'', when Tsarmina is driven to insanity by [[Terrible Ticking|the sound of dripping water]] and eventually {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death|drowns to death.]]}}
* ''[[
== Newspaper Comics ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In the french game ''Cats!'' ([[Exactly What It Says
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Krosp takes the controls of their falling airship and totals it, crashing it into a hill, to avoid landing in the lake, since then he'd get wet.
** ...and that's nothing to his reaction to the sewers under Sturmhalten. Of course, having spent all his life on the Castle Wulfenbach, he didn't know what a sewer was when he went down there...
*** Well, what ''really'' bothered him about the sewer was when he fell
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' even cats who are the demonic offspring of [[Satan]] don't like getting wet, particularly since it makes their cude widdle bat wings useless.
* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', Lucy became hydrophobic after {{spoiler|Mike almost drowned}} when they were younger.
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== Web Original ==
* [[
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** [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/11/07/funny-pictures-breakin-yur-stereotypes/ Subversion Kitteh]
* [[YouTube]]: Many videos, including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9QwK5EHSmg this one].
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== Western Animation ==
* Francine's Cat "Nemo" in ''[[Arthur (
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon, "Fin 'N Catty", features a cat trying to eat a goldfish despite his obsessive-compulsive fear of water (even one drop makes him run to get a paper towel and dry off furiously). After being trapped in a flooded shower stall, he not only overcomes his fear, but he also [[Super Not
* ''[[
* There was an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[The Avengers: United They Stand]]'' Tigra revealed she has a paralyzing fear of water because she is half cat.
* In ''[[Ice Age]]: The Meltdown'', sabretooth tiger Diego is afraid of water since he can't swim. It takes a while for him to overcome this.
* In the ''[[
* In the animated Disney film ''[[
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Done more subtly in the third movie of [[Shrek]] where a soaking, shivering, near-traumatized Puss in Boots is clinging onto Shrek after the trio dunk themselves in water. Anyone in the audience can tell he obviously didn't enjoy the experience.
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** The issue is with instincts. Domestic cats are descended from wildcats that lived primarily in desert areas, so as a rule, they have an instinctual fear of large bodies of water (they so seldom see them). For that matter, dog breeds from similar areas have similar aversion to water. This instinct is not as strong in some cats, and it can be completely overcome with training (although it's easier to do it before the cat in question is full-grown).
*** There's also the issue of temperature. Being descended from desert animals, many cats hate being cold, and a thorough soaking will allow air to get to the skin more easily, never mind the evaporating water taking some body heat with it. Only a few breeds have coats that can be considered water-resistant (Maine Coons are one such breed, as well as Turkish Vans, explained directly below).
* Real Life Aversion: The [
** The relatively new Bengal cats and Pixie Bobs are known for being rather unafraid of water. Many have been reported joining their master for a bath, whether the master wanted it to or not.
** The [
* Wild cat inversions: Tigers and jaguars LOVE water and are excellent swimmers, and jaguars are known to hunt fish, turtles & small alligators <ref>Amazonian Indians claim the jaguar uses its tail as bait, but there's no known observation of this behavior. It's very possible the jaguar's skull-crushing bite came from an origin of hunting heavily armored water reptiles.</ref> Also, there's a smaller Asian cat species known as the fishing cat, which has webbed feet. Heck, just look around ''any'' zoo
** Unlike tigers, lions have a large aversion to water. Presumably, this brings a lot of confusion to the poor hybrid ligers and tigons, who can't make up their mind whether to swim in joy or drown in fear.
*** Though in places like the Okavango Delta lions do swim regularly in search of prey; considering the area is practically all covered in water during wet seasons they are pretty much forced to.
*** Ligers have a lot of conflicting behaviors and instincts, but they seem to universally love water.
** Tigers in the "Out of Africa" zoo in Arizona regularly go for a dip in the pool, there's even an event based around this called, "Tiger Splash".
* The [[Moral Event Horizon|infamous]] "cat bombs" of [[World War II]]. It was suggested that, as cats hate water and always land on their feet, [[Insane Troll Logic|they believed strapping a cat to a bomb could guide it toward naval ships]]. Needless to say, field tests of the "idea" were a complete failure, and didn't do the cat any good either.
* Then, there's this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScOj4e0bOQ , who swims because he likes it...and his master taught him to scuba dive. The dog does, too.
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