Hounded Into Office

Dogs. They protect our homes, they shower us with affection, and they team up with meddling kids to travel around in a garishly-coloured camper van solving supernatural crimes.
Yet despite all that, it’s always been clear who was master and servant in the dog-human relationship. Until now.
Hounded into office, Minnesota has just elected a seven-year-old Great Pyrenees as its mayor in a landslide victory, in the small town of Cormorant.
Widely known by locals, “Duke” guards the community and has even been known to enforce the speed limit. The fluffy white dog didn’t even need to campaign, with his popularity easily outweighing his human competition.
David Rick, who voted for the dog, said: “What he does is when the cars are coming through town, they’re hitting town at 50mph, and he slows them down. He follows me wherever I go.”
It’s not exactly clear how he slows them down. If he’s been trained to use a speed gun surely that would be much more impressive than becoming mayor?
“He doesn’t know how to handle this publicity,” said Cormorant yokel Tricia Maloney.
“He’s used to coming to the pub and getting some burgers and some fries or something. Poor Richard Sherbrook that owns the Cormorant Store, he didn’t even have half as many votes as Duke did.”
Duke was rewarded with five hours of grooming ahead of being sworn in during the town’s fourth annual Cormorant Daze.
Not bad for a candidate who regularly shits on the floor and enjoy sniffing arses, although Silvio Burlosconi used to do that and he was Italy’s leader for years.