He moved out of the Governor’s mansion and abandoned his dog:
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been staying with one of his sisters in Westchester County in the final days of his third term, recently has asked staff members at the Executive Mansion if anyone would like to keep his dog, Captain, who has remained at the state-owned residence after the governor moved out last week.
Two State Police sources told the Times Union on Saturday that the governor had recently asked mansion staff members if anyone would be interested in caring for the dog. Captain — a high-strung mix of shepherd, Siberian and malamute — has nipped a few people since Cuomo adopted him in 2018, the sources said, and a mansion staffer recently took the dog home for a few days but decided he was too much.
This guy is the fucking worst. Here’s a good story about his replacement, Kathy Hochul, the first female Governor of New York and (this is amazing) the first person to hold that office who also held elected office in a town since 1880.
(Thanks to John Griffin Cole for reminding me about this on Twitter.)
WaterGirl
In all fairness to Cuomo, someone downstairs reported that Cuomo is not looking for someone to take his dog permanently, just someone to watch the pup while he is on vacation.
Baud
People were talking about this earlier.
Like I said then, if true, the problem is asking employees to dog sit.
BCHS Class of 1980
Well, if Cuomo weren’t on the BJ crap list before (Narrator: he so was!), this woulda sealed it in concrete and dropped it to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
I just saw the update and I change nothing; if the man had friends or willingness to spend money, he could have a dogsitter without (again!) leaning on subordinates.
Raoul Paste
He abandoned his dog?
Call John Wick
Betsy
All the counterfactuals issued by his spokespersons were *extremely* testy and defensive. It’s almost like the reporter has hit the truth.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@WaterGirl: His staff put out that story. I don’t believe it.
Wyatt Salamanca
Andrew Cuomo – totally classless right up to the bitter end. Good riddance to this creep.
h/t https://www.mediaite.com/tv/gov-cuomo-whines-about-getting-a-raw-deal-in-farewell-address-when-government-politicizes-allegations-you-undermine-the-justice-system/
Mart
Channel flipping Saturday saw the narcissist on CNN talking up their “back to normal” NYC music shindig. What a guy.
Betsy
I was going to say, at least we can be sure that his political future is scotched now, because more people will object to his treatment of the dog than would get hung up on his treatment of the women around him — so that support for animal welfare acts as a kind of substitute for opposition to sexual harassment. Highly ironic, I was about to observe, but then I remembered that abusers can be identified by their treatment of animals, as well as their treatment of women. So maybe it is an appropriate proxy, at least in a world where women can’t count on politics support for their rights.
WaterGirl
@BCHS Class of 1980: Around here, finding a good dog sitter is REALLY hard. I mean REALLY hard.
Poptartacus
He is a cock
ashbin of history for him
Steeplejack
But, but, but—I was reliably informed this morning that we shouldn’t pay attention to “hot takes” without confirming evidence. “The compulsion to pile-on for retweets and likes is too great to trust snippets at face value.”
But wait—the source was this exact article in the Times Union. Apparently we didn’t like that we saw it from a tweet—or we didn’t bother to read past the tweet to the actual article. Talk about hot takes.
Baud
I’m sure some intrepid reporter will follow up in a few weeks to determine whether Cuomo still has his dog.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
You dust off your wallet and board the pup. I’m going to Crete on 9/2-9/20 – I’m boarding mine for the entire time, about $30 a day with playtime (I’ve got somebody popping in to feed cats for that period).
It’s not hard.
That said, what kind of maniac adopts a shepherd/malamute/Siberian mix? That sounds like a recipe for everybody getting bitten, devoured couches and destroyed baseboards.
Cacti
Andrew Cuomo resigning has the same significance to my life as him holding office.
Bye.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I hated boarding my dog. Only did it once when I had no other option.
Ksmiami
@Baud: true story, I adopted my rescue Sibe when he was a little over a yr and a half and completely nuts. With training, better food and lots of exercise, he’s bestest boi ever. I’ll take Cuomo’s dog if he doesn’t want him… what a skeeze
Nicole
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Someone who’s trying to prove something. LOOK. A MAN’S MAN’S DOG. IT’S BIG AND LOOKS LIKE A MAN’S MAN’S DOG.
(Look, I like shepherds and malamutes and Siberians because I like almost all dogs, so don’t @ me, but a mix like that is a handful for anyone who doesn’t have dog experience
Also, I WISH dog sitting was $30 where I am. Last time I had a dog sitter it was $60 a day. We may need one a few days this autumn; I’m going to try just hiring a walker and see if that is less $$$.
Soprano2
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That dog probably sheds dust bunnies constantly. We had two Siberian huskies; they were beautiful dogs, but I’ll never have another one because they were unpredictable, plus the hot weather here is hard on them.
Ksmiami
@Soprano2: mine has done well; but it’s definitely been a lot of time invested… also, sibes don’t think of themselves as dogs more like slightly nicer wolf people.
Kent
Somehow I kind of doubt we are truly done with Cuomo and that this will actually be the last BJ Cuomo post.
The legal process is only just getting started.
Another Scott
@Baud: Sliwa’s on the case.
Also NYDailyNews:
(Emphasis added.)
Umm…
The yellow if thermonuclear fireball Sun…
:-/
One cat per 27 square feet sounds like a lot of cats.
Cheers,
Scott.
phdesmond
@Baud:
i believe such things as kennels exist, and can be used to board dogs during the human’s vacation.
WaterGirl
@Baud: My dogs always hated it, too. I haven’t done that in decades.
Baud
@phdesmond:
Some of us don’t like using kennels, although I would never ask an employee to do it.
Nicole
@phdesmond: Kennels are fine if your dog isn’t terrified of other dogs. They’re hell on earth if the dog is. :(
But Cuomo is still a jerk for asking soon to be ex-employees of his to do this. This is the sort of thing he should be hitting up his daughters to do for dear old handsy with strangers Dad.
zhena gogolia
Will this really, really be the last Cuomo post?
Ken
@zhena gogolia: And if so, where will we be able to talk about dog boarding options
(There may be a master’s thesis in an analysis comparing the ostensible subjects of BJ posts with what the comments turn into.)
VeniceRiley
Hochul sounds wonderful. We could use 10,000 more like her!
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Until the 2024 primary.
trollhattan
@zhena gogolia:
Not unless we’ve also seen the last Blago post. He’s sprung and rested and ready to run. Maybe he and Andy can take it on the road.
Another Scott
@trollhattan: Blago was doing personalized Cameo videos for $100. Maybe Andrew can get pointers from him.
Cheers,
Scott.
rikyrah
AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) tweeted at 4:18 PM on Mon, Aug 23, 2021:
Context: A Source inside the White House says @POTUS has taken a knee during photos with sports groups before. There is a picture w/@POTUS and the Dodgers on a knee. Meanwhile, for the @seattlestorm, led the way in professional basketball efforts for police reform & #BLM. https://t.co/ifyl5MKYO7
(https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1429915897209163782?s=03)
MomSense
@Ksmiami:
You could be describing my dog (part cattle dog)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HuWGFJc6WVc Help my cattle dog is herding my kids and biting people.
Kent
@Baud: My dog like his kennel. He’s a big happy friendly goofball of a lab who always likes to see all his friends. They have outdoor runs attached to each kennel. He’s always excited and happy when we show up there.
WaterGirl
@Kent: That’s awesome for both you and your dog.
Each dog is different. And each kennel is different.
Gin & Tonic
@Nicole: I recognize your point, but they are not *his* employees. They work for the State.
Honus
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I had a shepherd/husky mix. Adopted her as a puppy at nine weeks when I had a TBI, when you should never get a pet; my wife thought it was a good idea. And as it turned out it was. She was the calmest, best behaved and smartest dog I’ve ever known. (And I’ve trained dogs for fifty years)
So I’m guessing Cuomo’s dog never got properly trained.
Honus
@Ksmiami: I’m with you. See my response to Comte above.
Anya
@Baud: why didn’t he leave it with family members or some pet care place?
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Doggie Gate!
persistentillusion
@MomSense:
MomSense, I am part of Team Cattle Dog. My Red Heeler is a rescue out of a breeding operation. I’ve had her about a year and she’s gone from super anxious to mildly sluggish as she becomes more confident. Chase the ball? Once or twice then chew it to make it squeak. Game over. She is, however, becoming slightly Rubenesque so I think a trip to the Dog Park is in order.
Nicole
@Gin & Tonic:
I don’t imagine that’s the way he saw it, ergo why he thought it appropriate to ask them. ;)
Narrator: It was not, in fact, appropriate to ask them.
Gin & Tonic
@Nicole: Touchè.
Ruckus
@Anya:
I’m thinking that the dog was a political symbol, not an actual pet. Manly man has manly dog, that sort of crap.
Ksmiami
@MomSense: I love cattle dogs definitely ankle biters tho
Steeplejack (phone)
Epitaph:
MoCaAce
My lab Butters is happy to travel anywhere, sleep anywhere, and meet any dog. His sister BeBe, a pit bull x lab kennel-pup is a serious homebody. It has taken years for her to be anything but a neurotic mess when we go camping for a few days and bring them along. Her favorite part of vacation is coming home. I kenneled her once with her brother for five days and when we got back we learned she cowered in the kennel the whole time and didn’t eat a thing. She was sick for a week and wouldn’t get in the car for nearly a year. Now we always get a house/dog sitter if we can’t bring the dogs along.
Betsy
@Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix:
Yeah. And, at the initial press conference when he got the dog, note that he blamed it on his daughters. These guys. Always shoving the women in the family under the bus. Cruz, etc
Betsy
@Nicole: He already blamed his daughters for his decision to even get a dog. At some point a grown man should take responsibility for the animal he adopted, and not shove the care of the animal off onto the women of the family, who by virtue only of their gender (if his track record is any indication) already are supposed to clean up all his messes because they are women
Betsy
@Anya: Because he’s used to being able to abuse his position of authority over other people to make them do his bidding, obvs
Betsy
@Ruckus: 100%. It was a dog to show “the softer side of the statesman”.
Hence the decision to ditch the pup as soon as political office no longer held. What a horrid cad
Miss Bianca
@Another Scott: Curtis Sliwa? Isn’t he the Guardian Angels dude? He’s running for NYC mayor as a Republican?
Man, oh man, what a world
ETA: Oh, and Siberians rule. That is all, thank you.