Consoling our cat

Question
My cat Voltaire LOVES people. He's very clingy and loves attention. So whenever my husband or I have a shower he becomes terrified for our safety. He'll get in a panic and cry loudly and run to the other one of us to go "rescue" the one in the shower, and keeps crying until we get out. We try to console him and he wraps his "arms" tightly around our necks like a little kid, kisses our faces, and won't let go. I feel bad that he gets so scared. What can we do to calm him down and help him understand that the shower isn't hurting us?

Answer
I'm wondering if it's not that he's afraid for your safety so much as he's just afraid of the shower (or noise from it) in general. My cats freak out every time as well, but not to that extreme. The one thing I don't do, however, is try to console them. I find the more we act like it's a big deal, the more they think it is. Have you ever ignored him while he's doing this? That's something I would try.

**One other I thought of that never occurred to me, even though I've done with my cat is to keep him in the bathroom while showering so he knows nothing is going to go wrong. He may freak out a little and meow a lot, but go ahead and ignore it and when you're done love him up and let him when you feel like it.