A squeaky clean Twinkle
By
ROBIN CHARTERIS
in London
It was only because Twinkle kept on her toes that she is alive today.
The four-month-old tortoiseshell kitten jumped into the automatic, frontloading washing machine when her Slough owner, Mrs Pat Scott, was on the telephone.
"I went back into the kitchen and swithched the thing on,” said Mrs Scott. "A couple of minutes later I just happened to glance at the machine and my heart sank.
“Twinkle was bobbing up and down in the laundry with the machine on hot wash.”
Mrs Scott, aged 47, pushed the emergency stop button. “It seemed to take ages to stop. But Twinkle, apart from a lot of miaowing, was none the worse.
“Somehow, she managed to keep her head above the water. She’s certainly had one of her nine lives,” said Twinkle’s grateful owner.
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Press, 24 February 1987, Page 33
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