Moving house unsettles any cat, but for a hairless cat the move changes her grooming routine itself. There is no coat to brush, in this home or any other; what she has is exposed skin that produces oils continuously, with nothing to soak them up or spread them across a coat. In the old house you knew her rhythm and her warm spots. In the new one, unfamiliar surfaces, different heating, new dust, and plain stress all bear on her skin at once, and the weekly routine has to be rebuilt around that.
The Weekly Wipe-Down Rhythm
Her core routine is a weekly wipe-down rhythm: across the week, wipe her skin gently with a soft cloth dampened with warm water, lifting away the oil that otherwise builds up on the surface, collects in her skin folds, and transfers onto bedding and furniture. Oil left to accumulate can clog pores and leave her skin looking grubby or feeling tacky, and it settles worst in the folds at her neck, legs, and belly, so give those folds individual attention, parting them gently and drying them afterwards. Spread the wipe-downs across the week in short sessions rather than performing one long scrub; her skin is her coat, and it deserves the same little-and-often logic. Watch how quickly oil returns in the new home, because heating differences between houses genuinely change the pace, and let the observed rhythm, not the old house's calendar, set the frequency going forward.
Bathing Only as Needed
A bath is a bigger intervention than a wipe-down and should be occasional, given only as needed when oil and grime have built up beyond what cloths can lift, rather than fixed weekly by habit. Use warm water, keep the room warm, work quickly and gently, and dry her thoroughly and immediately, because a wet hairless cat loses heat fast in a house she has not yet learned to navigate. Pat skin dry instead of rubbing, moisturize only with anything your vet has approved for her, and treat bath day as a low-demand day while she is still settling. Nails and ears belong in the same weekly pattern: hairless cats gather wax and debris in their ears and grime around their nail beds, and a gentle check of both fits naturally alongside a wipe-down session.
Skin Checks and Warmth in an Unfamiliar House
The move itself shapes the checks. New homes present new surfaces at her skin's level: rough plaster, unfamiliar cleaning residues on floors, splintery wood, hot radiator tops, and sunny windowsills she will claim before you have assessed them. Inspect her skin during each wipe-down for scratches, redness, dry patches, or breakouts, and read any change against the move: stress alone can flare skin in the first fortnight, and new detergents used on her bedding are an early suspect worth eliminating. Warmth provision is care, not indulgence, for a cat with no insulation. Place heated or deeply padded beds in the rooms she favours, keep a warm retreat near where the household sits, check for draughts at floor level where she lives, and consider a well-fitting cat garment on cold days if she tolerates clothing.
Give the routine two or three weeks to stabilise before judging it; a settled hairless cat in a settled home falls into a predictable pattern of oil, warmth-seeking, and sleep. To hold that pattern while boxes are still being unpacked, her sessions can be scheduled inside KinsLe under Care Teams, where a missed one during moving chaos is visible at a glance.