Got an email from Laura, Minnie's new slave:

Hi there!  Just wanted to send you a quick email while I was thinking about
it.  Minnie is doing great!  In fact we traveled back home for a few days
and she's loving it here.  We live right by the woods and she just loved
sitting in the window sill and watching all the birds and such.  The ride
home wasn't bad at all either.  She slept the whole way except for the last
20 minutes or so because it started to rain.  She really was fascinated by
the windshield wipers though, her little eyes followed them everywhere they
went.  She had an experience last night.  I guess my mom was running the
bathtub to take a bath and Minnie got a little bit explorative.  My mom
walked back into the bathroom just as the first paw went into the water.
After Minnie ended up all wet she booked out of that tub like it was evil!
Yet today she was back to exploring it as to see what was so rotten about it
yesterday.  But all in all things are great!

Looks like Minnie got an unexpected bath!  Poor girl!