Creatures Small and Great of 2008!
With political campaigns dominating so much of the year, it’s not surprising that even a dog got into the action. A yellow Labrador retriever named Willie Bean Roscoe P. Coltrane ran for mayor of an Alabama town.
Why We Respond To Dogs
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The millions of dog owners, adopters and rescuers, members of the economic sector, writers and cartoonists have long
Why we respond to dogs
Regarding the clamor surrounding Willie Bean’s candidacy for mayor of Fairhope, it is a human tendency to joke about something we feel deeply about.
I submit that the overwhelming response is less politically motivated [...]
Willie Bean in the Media – JD Crowe Illustrates Willie Bean
The buzz around Fairhope (and beyond) is the mayoral campaign of Willie Bean, the big yeller dog owned by Tress Turner at the Coffee Loft. As Vince Kilborn said in the Press-Register story by Virginia Bridges, “He doesn’t have any skeletons in his closet. He’s eaten them all.” I wonder if any of the other 7 candidates can claim as much?