politico wrote:Biden — not Obama — gets new pooch
By CAROL E. LEE | 12/11/08 5:00 PM EST
Malia and Sasha Obama apparently aren’t the only ones who were promised a puppy if they stuck it out through the presidential election.
Vice President-elect Joe Biden picked out a German shepherd pup last weekend from a breeder near his Delaware home, according to a local newspaper report.
Biden was reportedly promised the post-election dog by his wife, Jill, who would tape pictures of different dogs on the back of the seat in front of Biden on his campaign plane.
The vice president-elect picked out a month-old male German shepherd from a breeder in Chester County, Pa., according to the Daily Local News. The breeder told the paper Biden wanted a family dog that was social and obedient and said Biden's granddaughters will name him.
The puppy will be delivered to the Bidens at the vice presidential residence after the Inauguration and after the breeder trains him, the paper reports.
This is of course a non-story except....
Awww. look at the puppy
Thus making it newsworthy.
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Obviously, this shows what is wrong with the Democrats. If they didn't hate America, they would have AMERICAN dog breeds, not these foreign dogs.
Now it's a German Shepherd but what next? A Chinese Crested? Maybe a Bolzhoi?
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Seriously, cute puppy. Hope he picked a good breeder, some German Shepherds have hip and back problems.
Ender wrote:And yet that puppy is far more qualified then Palin.
Damn you beat me to it. I was going to suggest that the dog could run in 2016 and in dog years it would be old enough to serve and would have probably a greater knowledge of foreign leaders and their habits than Palin ever will.
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He looks so damn happy to have it, too. This looks like it'll be a very 'media friendly' GOP.
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Jaevric wrote:German Shepherds have hip and back problems.
That's true of most purebreeds that size. A lot of my neighbors when I was a kid had Golden Retrievers, and almost all of them had hip dysplasia.
That's why I'd never get a purebreed. They're more susceptible to health problems due to Victorian royalty levels of inbreeding.
told you it wasn't just us Rednecks. Besides as long as it's not Poltemic Egyptian Royalty level of inbreeding...
for that you need a Blue Merel Collie, which the breeders actually tell you please don't breed the males, the females are ok as long as it's not with another collie.
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It has come to my attention that GoP does not, as I thought, mean Governing Party. As such, ignore my previous statement regarding the GOP and replace it with 'bunch of dirty commie scumbags'.
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They are still inferior to boxers, the supreme dog breed.
The jowls and floppy ears give their faces so much personality. Rather intelligent as far as dogs go, very friendly overall and intensely loyal to their family. The jowls mean that if they bite someone, they can't really get their teeth into them and do damage, so they end up restraining instead of hurting. This, along with the above traits are why they were the first police dogs.
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now why can't a pol ever adopt a mixed breed shelter puppy?
I mean the USA is supposed to be a melting pot, a mutt is a damn good symbol of our population. Hell I liked that part about Maus, was that the British were depicted at purebreed bull dogs, but the yanks were all mixed breed.
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"Melting pot" aside, people should ideally adopt dogs from shelters rather than patronizing breeders primarily because thousands of shelter dogs are put to death each year when they are not adopted.
Also, there are purebred shelters - typically they are for abused animals and the people that run them rehabilitate them and try to find them good homes. All our dogs have come from such a place. One was an idiot and wouldn't stay in the yard, he ended up getting run over by a migrant worker's truck in the field behind our house. The other two have been some of the best behaved things you could ever ask for (and the dumb one wasn't too bad either). I'm probably giving them too much credit, but I put it down to the dogs knowing how bad the streets are and thus behave to keep the good life.
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Ender wrote:Also, there are purebred shelters - typically they are for abused animals and the people that run them rehabilitate them and try to find them good homes.
Also along these lines, there are former racing dogs that are in need of homes and various Greyhound rescue organizations serve that cause.
I used to have one of the most cute golden retrievers from a shelter. She lived ten years before the lukemia and dysplaisia finally caught up with her. I still miss her, (yeah the displaisia was why she was in the shelter in the first place)
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They are still inferior to boxers, the supreme dog breed.
The jowls and floppy ears give their faces so much personality. Rather intelligent as far as dogs go, very friendly overall and intensely loyal to their family. The jowls mean that if they bite someone, they can't really get their teeth into them and do damage, so they end up restraining instead of hurting. This, along with the above traits are why they were the first police dogs.
Indeed.
My 'flashy' female Boxer is as friendly a dog as you'll ever meet.
Unless you look like you are a threat, that is.
Then you'll be praying for me to give you Excedrin Headache No. 357 just to end the pain.
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Ender wrote:Also, there are purebred shelters - typically they are for abused animals and the people that run them rehabilitate them and try to find them good homes. All our dogs have come from such a place. One was an idiot and wouldn't stay in the yard, he ended up getting run over by a migrant worker's truck in the field behind our house. The other two have been some of the best behaved things you could ever ask for (and the dumb one wasn't too bad either). I'm probably giving them too much credit, but I put it down to the dogs knowing how bad the streets are and thus behave to keep the good life.
My niece runs a 'rescue' for large breed dogs (primarily rotts, but she does take other breeds and mutts).
Her rescue is online here.
Funny thing is that I was talking about dogs with a coworker who said that she (my niece) had a reputation for being 'picky' about the people she'd let a rescued dog go to.
The person I was talking with had no idea the person was my niece until I asked for a name and she told me who she was talking about.
The kids you see in the pics are my grandnephews.
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