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The Latest on Bo, The Obama Dog!

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Being a United States first family dog, you are the most famous dog in the world. People will come looking and checking for information on your whereabouts, your activities and your autobiography. All details about the first family’s dog are given interest by the public.

Bo and President Barack Obama Playing Football


Bo is the first family dog. Bo might not know it but he is the most talked about dog in town. On the Pres. Speech way back in 2008, he told her daughters “you have earned a new puppy that is coming with us to the White House.” The Pres. can’t simply choose any puppy due to Maila’s condition (Obama’s daughter”. They need to come out with a dog that is hypoallergenic.  Bo was a gift given to them and the dog was six months old when he became the first family dog in April of 2009.

Bo’s name was not actually Bo at first; he was named Charlie when he was living with another family (according to the Washington Post). The breed of this dog is a Portuguese water dog. Bo was a gift given to the first’s family by Senator Ted Kennedy. The term “first dog” was actually derived from term like first lady; we have that tradition when it comes to things associated to the first family will have the same term like in the case of Bo, “first dog”.

Bo might be overwhelmed if he only knew that most people are on the look of finding information about him. He was born in Texas on October 9, 2008 and was given to the first family on April 9, 2009.

 

Meet Bo the Obama Dog

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

The White House just did not seem complete without a pet to round out the first family.  When President and Mrs. Obama entered the White House with their daughters, they immediately set out to find just the right canine companion to keep them company in their new home.  They decided on Bo, now known as Bo the Obama Dog.  Bo is a Portuguese water dog, with a curly black coat and a white strip on his chest and white boots on his front paws.

His name, Bo, is reported to have been determined by two different factors.  First, the girls wanted to name the pup after their cousin’s cat, and second, he has been named after one of President Obama’s favorite musical artist, Bo Diddly.

There was some controversy when the Obamas first chose Bo as their new family pet.  Animal rights groups and rescue organizations would have liked the first family to have chosen a dog from a shelter or a rescue, while Bo was from a breeder.  President Obama’s response to these concerns was that they did, indeed, look at shelters; however, due to his daughter’s allergies, they were forced to find a breed that is hypoallergenic, which meant that they could not choose a dog of mixed breeds.

Bo is, in fact, a second chance dog, however,  He had been adopted to keep an older dog company, but the two dogs had not gotten along and Bo was given back to the breeder.  In this way, he is still a rescue of sorts.