Pets Are Family Too

After months since President Obama announced that he will allow his daughters, Sasha and Malia, to get a dog in the White House. Speculation on the type of dog and when it will arrive has been burning up the media waves from the internet to mainstream media, world wide. Bo Obama, a Portuguese water dog, is the latest addition to the White House.

Bo Obama is a black-and-white 6-month-old Portuguese water dog got his name from the First Daughters according to the Washington Post,

The girls named it Bo — and let it be noted that you learned that here first. Malia and Sasha chose the name, because their cousins have a cat named Bo and because first lady Michelle Obama’s father was nicknamed Diddley, a source said. (Get it? Bo . . . Diddley?)

Controversy swirled wildly whether or not the First Puppy would come from a breeder or a shelter.  Dog lovers were drawing their lines in the sand and lobbying why a shelter dog would be more appropriate than a dog from a breeder. Guess who won? Neither, Bo Obama was a gift from one of the best lobbyist ever lived, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. Senator Ted Kennedy, who is a Portuguese Water Dog lover himself with two of them, gave Bo to the Obama daughters as a gift. Both sides of the shelter and breeder debate will also be pleased to know that Bo is considered a “second-chance” puppy since his previous owner returned him to the breeder.

President Obama said at election acceptance speech in November 2008, the First Daughters had earned their new puppy, and ever since, buzz about the new dog has been dog gone crazy!

Gifts for the First Puppy began rolling in soon after the announcement. T.V. Host, Ellen gave Michelle Obama and the girls a dog house designed like the White House along with a dog sweater with the Presidential seal on back, to name a few. Bo Obama is expected to arrive at his new home, The White House, on Tuesday April 14, 2009!
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