![Mayor Stubbs leaving the hospital with Lauri Stec. Photo courtesy of the Mayor Stubbs Facebook page.](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/stubbs-return-small.jpg)
Talkeetna’s honorary mayor is recovering in his hometown after a dog attack on Labor Day weekend sent him to the hospital. The attack left Mayor Stubbs, a 16-year-old yellow tabby, with a punctured lung, broken sternum, and a four inch gash in his side, as well as other injuries.