The ShiTzu hits the fan, part 3

Well Alice's trial of the decade is over. Puddles' original owners get to keep him.

If you're new to Corpus Juris, you can get the back story and my self-aggrandizing follow-up, here and here. Basically, the mayor of Alice tried to dognap a ShiTzu named Puddles by renaming him Panchito and hiding him at the farm of her identical twin sister.

You can read the Corpus Christi Caller Times' coverage of the story, if you like, but the punchline is just that the original owners get to keep him, which is good, and that his name will revert to Puddles from Panchito, which to my mind is bad. But what can you do. The highlights of the story are the following puns:

• "In her dogged custody fight over a fluffy black and white pooch, former Alice Mayor Grace Saenz-Lopez sacrificed her political career and thousands of dollars in legal bills."
• "The custody dogfight has no visitation clause." That doesn't even make sense.

The Caller Times, typically, included no relevant information on the most fascinating line of the story: "Saenz-Lopez [former mayor of Alice] and Garcia [her identical twin] will be in court Tuesday to answer to felony charges that they tampered with and concealed evidence while attempting to keep the dog."