Happy Bo-Day!
Like most Americans I’ve been impatient to see what choices the new president will make now that he’s almost three months into his first term of office.
No, I don’t mean whom he’ll pick for under-under secretary of some department or other. I mean whom will he choose as First Dog!
Today, if the Washington Post report is accurate, I got my answer. And this is one pick who’s been “thoroughly vetted.”
As my family is poodle-whipped, I was leaning heavily toward the Labradoodle. Evidently there’s an entire Web site devoted to pleading with the president to “pick me.”
But when I saw the photo of 6-month old “Bo,” I once more fell in love with a bundle fur, this time a Portuguese Water Dog or Portie (PWD as fans of the breed call them). The writer compared Bo’s coat to a tuxedo, black with a white chest, white front paws, and white goatee.
And he’s already in training—sitting when the Obama girls sit, standing when they stand, and so far no "toileting errors."
Since they aren’t getting a rescue dog—as many people had hoped—I understand the Obamas are, instead, donating to the D.C. Humane Society. However, Bo is a “give-back,” a dog someone else couldn’t handle and returned to the breeder. Lucky dog.
As for me, I can rest easier, knowing that big white house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is finally a real home.
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