Yes, bathing a cat can be an interesting project. When I look at your girl, I think of how hard it is to get the water all the way down to the skin through that thick long coat. That would take me the whole ten minutes, LOL! For bathing my first cat, I left his nylon harness on him and used it as a hand hold. He got a good grip on the far side of the laundry tub and wailed like a banshe telling the whole world I was torturing him, but as long as I held onto that harness he wasn't going anywhere. My second cat was harder. She would crouch in the bottom of the tub quietly, and just when you thought everything was fine she would turn into a bucking bronco and try to back out of the harness. Later, I found that if I reached around them from the back and got a good grip on the upper part of their front legs, then lift up so they had to stand on their back legs, and that worked pretty well. If that doesn't work I get a good grip on the scruff of their neck and that generally gets them to hold still.
