That's a great list, Monty! I have been doing a lot of those things today, in fact!

About the kitty baths, mine tolerate it best if I sit on the bathroom floor (door closed!), put a towel on my lap, and start by brushing them. They like brushing! Then, I dip the brush into a bowl of warm water with a few drops of cat shampoo that I prepped before I sat down with the cat. Keep brushing/dipping until they are wet from the water on the brush, but they still don't realize it. Then, I dip a washcloth into the water and kind of rub them with it. Now they realize they're wet but it's too late to do anything about it. I can get their paws, faces, and, um, butt, with the washcloth. Then I hang the washcloth on my husband's towel bar (heh!). Lastly I dip a clean washcloth into another bowl that has warm clean water in it to clean off the soap.

They really don't mind it that way!