Celebrity kitty’s most embarrassing moment & we have the untold story
Milkmouth and Elizabeth Taylor have a lot in common. Both of them are celebrities, strikingly beautiful and voluptuous gals who get grief from this anorexia-obsessed society.
Milkmouth was very skinny, and of course starving, back when when she and almost 800 of her closest friends were rescued from institutionalized hoarding in the Nevada desert.Believe us, Milkmouth can’t wait to be at the
South Bark Dog Wash Adoption Event in San Diego this weekend; she sincerely hopes to find her family and never have to hear the retelling of the RV TOILET EPISODE.
Milkmouth has celebrity status as one of the elite first graduates from
Miss Sherry’s Finishing School for Felines at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary And just like Liz, Milkmouth’s every moment is chronicled by groupies who just can’t wait to tell the world when she is less than perfect.
We are Milkmouth’s groupies, we confess. And just so we can brag that we have insider information, we have to share this very funny and VERY embarrassing episode in Miss Milkmouth’s life. Somehow, she managed to elude the paparazzi on this one, so we only have studio headshots to illustrate this story.
Savannah Timberlake, one of the volunteers student teachers at the finishing school, shares her eyewitness account of Miss Milkmouth’s most embarrassing moment:
“I blame it all on Terri (Terri Gonzales, headmistress at the finishing school).
“She is the one who told me that Milkmouth and Lexy really wanted to go on a sleepover in the Hitchhiker. (Lexy has been in
school for a few weeks. Sheis a sweetheart but shy.)
“So, I put Lexy in a carrier and commissioned a forklift to put Milkmouth in her bag and took them to my RV.
“It seemed to be going okay. All night long, I would feel the pitter patter of little feet (or the booming stomps depending on which cat we are referring to) on and off of the bed. I could tell who it was by the sound and feel. A light "PLINK" was Lexi. A big "THUD" was Milkmouth.
“There were some cuddles and some just hanging out together.
“My alarm did not sound in the morning and I was in a hurry to get to work. I saw Lexy, grabbed her, put her in the carrier and took her to school.
“I went to see Bob.
“I came back to get Milkmouth and I did not see her which seemed strange because the RV is not that big and Milkmouth is somewhat hard to miss.
I told Terri that Milkmouth wanted to play hookey.
“Terri told me to go change her mind or else she was going to assign me to floss
Bambino's teeth.
Milkmouth’s friend who is still in school, Bambino, is known for his cowardly lion “Gurrrr” and his deep sighs
“I went back to get Milkmouth. I could not find her. I started to get that hot, tingly feeling... like I had lost the cat.
“The little angel appeared on one shoulder; the devil on the other and they proceeded to have the following conversation.:
“Maybe she escaped through a crack...”
“A CRACK you idiot? She can barely fit through the door!”
"Well, what if she opened the door?"“So I started envisioning my sweet Milkmouth out in the wilderness all by herself and I almost cried because I knew she could not move fast enough to get away from anything.
“Then I pulled myself together and started frantically looking in every cabinet, drawer and nook and cranny that I could find.
“I was looking underneath the bathroom sink and turned ever-so-slighty and saw a patch of blue fur with white.
“It was Milkmouth.
“I swear I could see her skin blushing red underneath it all.
“She was under the toilet.
“I had to do a double take... I mean, Lexy would have had trouble fitting in the hole that seperated the top of the toilet from the pedel on the bottom. How in the HELL did Milkmouth get in there?
“I poked her because I was afraid she had, um, died.
“She moved slightly.
“Whew!
“Now what?
“I knew I could not get her out.
“I did not want to tell Terri. I could envision her handing me the dental floss and having me go after not just Bambino but CURTIS (Curtis is a very new student and still very scaredy and strikes,a lot), and AURORA as well.(Aurora the Meow Mensa is not pleased that she is asked to take formal classes. She is too smart for humans as it is).
“I looked IN the toilet. No Milkmouth.
“I imagined myself on flossing duty for all 4 yurts...
“I had to get Terri. If it meant flossing feral teeth for the next four years, then I had to take it like a big girl.
“I saw her.
“I opened my mouth to tell her.
“And, I started laughing.
“I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t tell her, I had to show her.
“Remember, what it feels like when you get sent to the principal's office? Well, the walk from the yurt to the Hitchhiker felt like that
“Terri took it surprisingly well.
“She told me to go get a can of food.
“She popped the lid.
“Nothing.
“Terri says, ‘Uh oh. She is REALLY stuck if she does not come out for food.’
“The next hour is a blur. It involved a certain handyman removing the toilet and a bunch of other things that we will not mention to protect Milkmouth's privacy.
“But, the end result is that we got Milkmouth out.
“She went to the medical yurt for observation.
“I went to check on her a few hours later and the report was, ‘She seems fine. She is eating.’
“OF COURSE SHE IS!”
Shari Timberlake, another one of the volunteer student teachers said,
“I think my sister Savannah pretty much said it all on the Milkmouth drama...
About the only thing that I could add here is that is was also quite interesting to see the story spread through Rescue Village like wildfire and all the great minds in the camp had to go view the sad spectacle of poor kitty in the toilet to try and offer up any solutions to the obvious problem.
“It was certainly a parade to the Hitchhiker as everyone really had to see it for themselves! It was one of those things that you really had to see it to believe it!!!
“Poor Milkmouth was just mortified....”
Milkmouth shares her displeasure over the publicity surrounding the incident with the school’s founder, Sherry Woodard 
So, you want to be a student teacher, hmmm???Anyone interested in learning the socialization techniques developed during The Great Kitty Rescue is invited to apply to volunteer at Miss Sherry’s Finishing School for Felines at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Please contact our volunteer coordinator, Kalene Craddock at 435-644-2001, ext. 4119 or email
volunteers@bestfriends.org and help these special kitties get ready to go home.