Washington:
Joe Biden’s dogs Champ and Major have moved into the White House, reviving a extended-standing tradition of presidential pets that was broken beneath Donald Trump.
The pooches can be noticed trotting on the White House grounds in photographs retweeted by First Lady Jill Biden’s spokesman Michael LaRosa, with the pointed obelisk of the Washington Monument in the background.
“Champ is enjoying his new dog bed by the fireplace, and Major loved running around on the South Lawn,” LaRosa told CNN in a statement Monday.
Guess who moved in?
Hoomans wanted some peace and quiet to make positive we did not get scared ahead of moving us in.
Major loves the South Lawn.
???? Adam Schultz pic.twitter.com/OcfMTP2gdq
— The First Dogs of the United States (@TheFirstDogs) January 25, 2021
The Biden’s dogs, each German shepherds, adhere to the pawprints of presidential pets that integrated Barack Obama’s Bo, a black Portuguese water dog and George W. Bush’s Scottish terrier, Barney.
Champ’s #MondayThoughts primarily involve bacun.
– Major 🐾
📷 @dcclphoto – Former WH photographer for hooman @POTUS when he was @VP44pic.twitter.com/jNaxs4vafv
— The First Dogs of the United States (@TheFirstDogs) January 25, 2021
Trump, a famously finicky germophobe, broke with that convention — as he did with numerous presidential traditions — and in no way had a pet in his White House.
“How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn,” Trump asked, with a grimace, in a video integrated in a Biden campaign ad.
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