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Greg Abbott's Wife Cecilia Is The Ultimate Dog Mom & The Pups Run The Governor's Mansion

Pancake and Peaches are in charge!

Greg and Cecilia Abbott with their dog, Pancake. Right: Pancake Abbott outside the governor's mansion.

Greg and Cecilia Abbott with their dog, Pancake. Right: Pancake Abbott outside the governor's mansion.

Texas Staff Writer

Many families of those who take public offices find their way of life changes when they relocate their home base to governmental estates.

However, for the past seven years, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his wife Cecilia's two golden retrievers have made themselves right at home in the governor's mansion.

Texans can often find Pancake and her younger sister Peaches making appearances at events or hanging out around the massive Austin house with Cecilia Abbott, while she's attempting to work.

The dog mom regularly posts random snapshots of the two on her personal Instagram account, but you can see even more of their life on their own account @texaspancake.

The first lady of the state, who is a self-proclaimed animal lover, and her husband first got Pancake back in 2015, the golden retriever suddenly becoming the "First Puppy of Texas" alongside their border collie Oreo. The latter passed away in 2017 at 13 years old.

Pancake was briefly an "only dog" until 2018 when her little sister Peaches came along, and the two retrievers have been running the household ever since.

These days, the two partners in crime won't hesitate to walk right through the middle of important press conferences or get the zoomies right on the front lawn of the mansion.

At this time, the social media manager in charge of the pups' IG account is unknown, and it sadly hasn't been active since 2020.

But you can still keep up with them because the Texas couple is always posting cute snapshots of the dogs on their personal pages.

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    • Staff Writer

      Brittany Cristiano (she/her) was Narcity USA's first full-time Texas Staff Writer. She's a lifelong Houstonian but enjoys every corner of the Lone Star State. Brittany is passionate about highlighting the beauty and rarities in the places we live in or visit–whether it’s showing North American readers something they never knew existed in the South, or helping Texans appreciate the beauty that’s been there the whole time. Oh, and she also loves to spill the tea on the latest trending figures in Texas and beyond. She previously served as an Editorial Intern for Houstonia magazine and as Editor-in-Chief of the University of St. Thomas’ student newspaper.

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