Here's the long anticipated follow up to
Wild group poised for run to become Mayor of Divide [Colorado]

Search-and-rescue bloodhound paws back, announced new Divide mayor
By Garrison Wells Updated: April 9, 2014 at 12:17 pm



UPDATE: The next Mayor of Divide is a search-and-rescue bloodhound named Pa Kettle, announced the Teller County Regional Animal Shelter Wednesday morning.

Pa Kettle won the heated Divide race with 2,387 votes, according to Nancy Adams, funding coordinator for the shelter. Pa pawed past Kenyi the wolf by only 55 votes.

Kenyi is the vice-mayor and Buster the cat, who placed third with 1,790 votes, is the viceroy. The inauguration is April 19.

Editor's Note: Bias alert, reporter Garrison Wells is a dog person

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Adams said she expected strong last-minute lobbying by Pa Kettles' mom, Janet Bennett.

"She is the most competitive person I've ever met in my life," Adams said. "She works at the vet's office so she can talk to everyone coming in the door."

Bennett, contacted Tuesday, denied such dastardly tactics.

However, she isn't shying away from other, less questionable efforts to get her doggie to the top political post.

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Bennett shamelessly cited Pa's strengths.

"He is the only candidate that has a real job," she said. "And he is the only candidate that has a last name and a verifiable birth certificate, which I don't think the others do ... and it's important. He's running as an independent."

Pa's job is a search-and-rescue bloodhound, Bennett said.

"We're pretty confident that he will win in the last hours," Bennett said. "We're going to win the mayor's race first, and next be in the Guinness World Records for the longest dog ears."

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