Puddles: The Epiblogue
April 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Well, I wasn’t going to do it. But after chronicling the travails of Puddles/Panchito for several months, it seemed fitting to write an epilogue about the little Shih Tzu that brought down the mayor of a South Texas town.
After a 10-month tussle over custody of the lovable little yapper, the Gutierrez family finally emerged victorious yesterday. State District Judge Richard Terrell ruled in favor of the family after chastising both parties for behaving like idiots.
After all, Grace Saenz-Lopez—now the ex-mayor of Alice—gave up her political career for the pint-sized ball of fluff. She was also indicted along with her twin sister in an alleged plot to hide the dog from the Gutierrez family. The two still face criminal charges and will have their hearing next week. The whole affair became such a—ahem—doggone debacle that it made headlines in the New York Times and the nationally syndicated Mike and Juliet Show.
I’m glad it’s nearly over, because I’m running out of dog-related puns.
The question now is, can the ex-Mayor let sleeping dogs lie?
