Area Dog Gets Up Early to Watch Presidential Inauguration

Area Dog Gets Up Early to Watch Presidential Inauguration

According to friends, Hanky the dog got up early to watch the U.S. presidential inauguration this morning.  The official swearing in is occurring on Sunday morning – Hanky plans to watch the liveblog on Politico, with all the big public inaugural festivities on Monday, which he’ll watch on YouTube.

“He never misses any big presidential event,” says friend Mary Aushultz.  "Political conventions, debates, election night, the inauguration, the state of the union… it doesn’t matter. If it involves a president or presidential candidate, he’s plopped on the couch with CNN on.“

And what if anyone tries to change it to something else?  Say, playoff football?  "Oh he won’t have any of that,” says Aushultz.  "I mean, he won’t bite or anything, he’s a good dog.  But if you change the channel, he’ll just give you the most withering stare.“

"I tried to tell him the parade isn’t until tomorrow,” Auchultz continued, “but he just gave me that stare.”

Via Korry B.