The German Shepherd's attacks caused the Secret Service to change tactics for safety, documents show.
    • seth@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 months ago

      I remember when they got caught doing blow and soliciting prostitutes with government funds in South America.

    • JustMy2c@lemm.ee
      121·
      9 months ago

      Ow I believed the dogs already before you mentioned pence…

      Even normal ss people have to be very on edge, a dog sniffs that out from a mile away. Imagine the ones that trump hand picked to be a few orders of magnitude sketchier and more on edge than a maltreated dog

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
      81·
      9 months ago

      It’s the tan suit thing all over again, the GOP platform of us vs them. Now theyre going to make some silly name they can belittle him with, which makes the dim feel special.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      41·
      9 months ago

      The world of 2020 before anyone knew what dog Biden had. It wasn’t good news then, but at least it was news.

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    352·
    9 months ago

    Why is the BBC reporting on this like it’s a scandal?

    Dog isn’t even in the White House anymore.

  • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de
    23·
    9 months ago

    So after a minute of trying to parse this, I assume his dog is named commander? Or did Joe bidens dog commander, I. E. A person who commands dogs, bite his colleagues?

  • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
    21·
    9 months ago

    “Despite additional dog training, leashing, working with veterinarians, and consulting with animal behaviourists, the White House environment simply proved too much for Commander,” a statement said.

    Welp. I can kinda imagine how that could happen. Just a lot of chaos and people running around and no space to get settled for a dog, maybe some unpleasant interactions, and maybe just not a dog temperament suited for this.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1336·
    9 months ago

    They show at least 24 biting incidents took place between October 2022 and July 2023, including members of the Secret Service being bitten on the wrist, forearm, elbow, waist, chest, thigh and shoulder.

    The documents do not necessarily record all biting incidents related to Commander, as they only cover the Secret Service and not others that work in the White House or staff at Camp David in Maryland.

    The Biden family’s pet left the White House in October last year, one week after a Secret Service agent required medical treatment for a severe bite.

    There’s no bad dogs, just bad owners…

    Not many couples in their 70s/80s can handle training a dog correctly.

    But most 80 years olds also can’t handle being US president, but Biden won’t let a little thing like the inevitable and totally normal effects of aging stop him from being president!

    And they won’t let competitive primaries stop him either, that’s why the DNC took all of NH primary delegates away as punishment for voting progressive the last two elections.

    And before some idiot claims NH Dem party should have violated state election law to benefit Biden like him and the DNC demanded…

    Just because trump is a giant piece of shit. Doesn’t mean anything Biden does is automatically acceptable.

    Have some fucking standards.