I've never had a cat look like that after a bath!!
In all honesty, I haven't ever had a big problem when it comes to having to do things with cats, perhaps its a matter of trust on the cats part.
Do a forum search on Blast's cat story. Worth the read - almost (and I say almost) as good as the 2 banned topics from the ModelEng list - Wheatabix and Foucault Pendulums - The second started as an on topic, the other as a joke, BOTH while the ONLY moderator was on a 2 week or so vacation - at one point we were getting something like 1000-2000 OT posts/day!!