The Washington Times
June 25, 1994, Saturday, Final Edition
SECTION: Part D; COMMENTARY; EDITORIALS; Pg. D2
It's a dog's life in the Veep's house, etc.
POOR POOCH: Perhaps the Vice President is too busy saving the environment to ponder the whereabouts of his own dog. Readers of The Washington Times "Inside the Beltway" column were surprised and dismayed to learn this week that Mr. Gore's dog recently was found wandering around the grounds of the vice presidential mansion on Massachusetts Avenue in a pathetic state. The dog, a poodle, was injured; in fact it was maggot infested because of an untreated open wound. However, as the dog apparently had no name tag, the best the Secret Service could do was call in the Humane Society, which brought it to Friendship Animal Hospital where it received much needed emergency care.
And what did the Vice President have to say about the state of his pet? Not much. A tight-lipped statement from Tipper Gore's press secretary said that the 16-year-old dog had run away during construction at the house, been lost for several days, and that's how it got injured.
The episode brings to mind the time then Vice President Dan Quayle's family lost their 10-month-old springer spaniel puppy during the election campaign in 1992. The family spent the night searching the mansion's grounds and when the puppy was discovered the next morning, safe at a neighbor's house, Mr. Quayle betook himself and his daughter in the car over to pick it up, even though it caused delays in his campaign tour all that day. What did Mr. Gore do to find his dog? One would like to know.