My Other Half is some kind of Cat Magnet. He attracts them. Even strange cats. If we go to a house with cats, they just come and sit on him or near him. Even now as I type this, he's sat opposite me with his web-book, with the two Toms sat next to him and the Queen sat on the arm of the chair. It's bizarre.
I've worked out that if you grab the cat and do what you need to do, they seem to go into such shock that you get away with it. You can see them thinking, "If I ignore this, it isn't happening". Works for baths and tablets. 
@Ravenstone, I can imagine Midge recoiling in horror at being rumbled at last by a new HF SUBL. Life will never be the same for her if OC reads this.
I want to try the bathing the cat thing!
I think it should end though with 'wait until someone that you don't like opens the door, as a wet, angry projectile will be heading that way at high speed and they might not dodge in time.
Not a great believer in bathing either cats or dogs, myself (except in extremely rare circumstances - skin condition? Thankfully hasn't arisen!). On return home on muddy days, though, you say "WAIT" and the dog waits just inside the door, and you say "pata" and she lifts her feet so you can wipe them with the extremely ratty old towel kept by the door for this purpose. She's fine doing this with the front paws, but by the time you get to the back ones she's getting impatient (there are more interesting things to be investigated, usually in the kitchen).
I used to be a cat magnet, but with the dog around this doesn't seem to have quite the effect it used to .... pity! Still, the neighbour's small tiger doesn't mind, it just socialises whenever the dog isn't there.
WERRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH..........................
Friends keep asking that I video it, but seeing as we get as wet as the cats, and the bathroom steams up (cats like the water very hot!), a video camera is the last thing you want in there. That and there's not enough hands.
Still, they're pretty well behaved. Still got all our fingers anyway. They seem to know it's a necessary evil and they'll feel better afterwards. It shifts an awful lot of loose fur, dust, and - of course - the dreaded fleas