{"id":32084,"date":"2013-09-05T00:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=32084"},"modified":"2013-09-05T00:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:13:47","slug":"stubbs-the-cat-alaska-town-mayor-mauled-by-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=32084","title":{"rendered":"Stubbs the cat, Alaska town mayor, mauled by dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stubbs-the-cat-mayor-of-talkeetna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32082\" alt=\"stubbs-the-cat-mayor-of-talkeetna\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stubbs-the-cat-mayor-of-talkeetna.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stubbs-the-cat-mayor-of-talkeetna.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stubbs-the-cat-mayor-of-talkeetna-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stubbs-the-cat-mayor-of-talkeetna-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>He&#8217;s a beloved mayor, who&#8217;s held the top office in Talkeetna, Alaska, for 16 years. So imagine the townfolks&#8217; shock when he was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Brutally mauled.<\/p>\n<p>By a dog.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did we mention, this mayor&#8217;s a cat?<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Stubbs, a yellow tabby with more responsibility than your average cat, survived &#8212; but is in bad shape.<\/p>\n<p>A punctured lung. A fractured sternum. A 5-inch gash on his side.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors took out a chest tube Tuesday, and he was breathing on his own for the first time since the weekend attack.<\/p>\n<p>The story of how Mayor Stubbs rose to power made international news after he was found in a box full of kittens in front of <a href=\"http:\/\/nagleysstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nagley&#8217;s General Store<\/a> in town.<\/p>\n<p>Stubbs was strolling about the town Saturday night as he does every night, when an unleashed dog came running across the street and bit into him.<\/p>\n<p>Stubbs&#8217; medical bills could top $2,000, Stec said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s a beloved mayor, who&#8217;s held the top office in Talkeetna, Alaska, for 16 years&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[2178],"class_list":["post-32084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-alaska","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}