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Eliot Spitzer confesses about his dogs in Newsweek--refused to walk Bichon Frise

April 20, 1:53 PMPet News ExaminerHelena Sung
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Eliot Spitzer walking James the Wheaten Terrier last March.
(Newsday)

In this week's issue of Newsweek magazine, Eliot Spitzer--who will forever be known as Client No. 9 and the former governor of New York with a penchant for prostitutes--confesses that he used to avoid walking the family's female Bichon Frise named Jesse because it would spoil his macho man image.

"I wouldn't take her out in public," Spitzer admits, referring to Jesse the Bichon. "I thought James was the better image for me." 

James is the large, Wheaten Terrier that Spitzer was photographed walking in the first few days after the prostitute scandal exploded in the media last March. Apparently, he's suitably masculine-looking.

"I explained to James that he was a good-looking dog," Spitzer says, referring to the days just after the prostitute scandal when he was mobbed by photographers . "People wanted to take his picture."

These days, with no career and lots of time on his hands, Spitzer has changed his tune about little Jesse and deigns to walk her as well.

"It's like, OK, I have a bichon, a little white ball of fluff … I don't care," Spitzer tells Newsweek. "What do you have to lose?"

Well, nothing, when you're a "disgraced ex-governor." Except maybe a little more hair.

Read more of the interview at Newsweek.com.

 


Picture of a Bichon Frise (not Eliot Spitzer's dog Jesse). (Dogtime)

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