In his brief stint as the First Mascot, Augusto racked up thousands of Instagram followers. The tale of the lost dog finding a new gilded home was the rare development in the capital, Brasília, that did not become politicized, angrily debated or litigated. “We had an inkling he wasn’t a street dog,” the first lady said in a live story video she recorded on the dog’s account. “We had a sense the owners might turn up.”Becoming internet famous likely hastened the end of Augusto’s tenure as the presidential pet. The dog’s owner, Nagib Lima Zeidan, had had a pretty rotten year, having lost his job at a gas station in recent months, and then his beloved dog, whose real name is Zeus.

Source: New York Times July 01, 2020 16:46 UTC