Turns out there is a town in Texas called Alice. And it also turns out its former Mayor, Grace Saenz-Lopez, is a lier and a dog-thief.

According to a story on today’s New York Times, Saenz-Lopez took advantage of her super powers (i.e. being the Mayor of Alice, Texas) to steal Puddles from their rightful owners, change its name and move it to a ranch in a town far, far away.

“When the mayor, Grace Saenz-Lopez, agreed to take care of her next-door neighbors’ sick Shih Tzu and ended up keeping it, telling them the dog was dead and buried, it was bound to get ugly. Particularly after the mop-haired critter, Puddles, turned up quite alive — and renamed Panchito — at Ms. Saenz-Lopez’s twin sister’s ranch 14 miles away.”

Oh dear. The saddest thing is that, despite what its residents think, Alice will forever be remember as the town whose (Latina) mayor stole a dog.