Meet California's deputy first dog: Cali Brown

Thursday, March 29, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- There's a new leader in Sacramento and she's only a few months old.

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed his pup, Cali Brown, as the state's "deputy first dog."
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Cali was born in January in Herald, California. The dog is a bordoodle, which is a mix of poodle and border collie.

She didn't join the Brown family until this month.
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As deputy first dog, her duties include assisting the First Dog Colusa Brown in "herding staff at the State Capitol and lending a paw around the family ranch in Colusa County."

Colusa Brown tweeted approval of the pick.

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