The update you’ve been waiting for.
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Obama puppy
Bo will never be Barney, but he’s still kind of cute. Read his bio too.
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Most Scottish Terrier lovers have heard of this famous FDR dog speech, but have you ever seen it? Did you know it was available on YouTube? Okay, it’s true the sound quality’s not so good but still.
The Fala portion begins at about 7:40 when FDR says, “You know, Fala’s Scotch.”
My favourite line: “I think I have a right to object to libelous statements about my dog.”
I can’t help but wonder if we’ll ever hear Barack Obama says something like that about Bo
Or will he ever have occasion to utter, “You know Bo’s Portuguese?”
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When we got Bridget, various people gave me flack for getting a purebred so I’m not surprised to see the Obamas in trouble over not just their new puppy’s bloodlines but his Kennedy connection.
I hope Bo’s breeders aren’t subjected to the kind of craziness that hit the breeders of Joe Biden’s German Shepherd:
“I thought when Joe Biden bought a puppy from me, what an honor,” Brown said. “Out of millions of breeders in the country, in the world, he picked me.”The glow dimmed almost immediately.
Following a story about Brown and Biden in the Daily Local News, readers posted 131 comments, some chiding Biden for having the Secret Service with him when he went puppy shopping and others complaining he did not get the dog from a shelter.
Brown was taken to task for selling pedigree dogs.
Some people really need to chill out. That’s the official editorial position of the Scottie News.
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Moira at the Obama Dog Blog has all the details.
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Michelle Obama has told People magazine the first family will get its rescue Portie in April:
“Temperamentally they’re supposed to be pretty good,” she says of the breed that Sen. Ted Kennedy has also lobbied for (he has two Water dogs of his own). “From the size perspective, they’re sort of middle of the road – it’s not small, but it’s not a huge dog. And the folks that we know who own them have raved about them. So that’s where we’re leaning.”The Name Game
The only thing still up in the air is the name. And Mom’s not feeling it with some of the names her girls have come up with.“Oh, the names are really bad. I don’t even want to mention it, because there are names floating around and they’re bad,” Mrs. Obama says with a laugh. “You listen and you go – like, I think, Frank was one of them. Frank! Moose was another one of them. Moose. I said, well, what if the dog isn’t a moose? Moose. I’m like, no, come on, let’s work with the names a little bit.”
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The president of the Winnipeg Humane Society recently wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to tell him he has a rescued Labradoodle puppy available to give to President Obama and his family. Obama said recently that he has narrowed the dog choice down to two breeds, Labradoodle and Portuguese Water Dog and that he would prefer to get a shelter dog.
While sceptics have argued that those breeds show up at the pound only rarely, the Winnipeg Humane Society rescued 55 dogs, including a pregnant Labradoodle, in a December bust of a Manitoba puppy mill. Within days, the black and white Labradoodle named Lily gave birth to seven black and four blond pups.
According to Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, when Humane Society president Bill McDonald heard Obama’s comments about preferred dog breeds, he felt the stars aligning.
“It really just started to click for me,” he told the newspaper. “And when it was announced that his first state visit would be to Canada, I thought why not offer a Labradoodle as a gift?”
To make his point, Mr. McDonald wrote a letter last week outlining the proposition to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Within 24 hours, he got a reply saying that his letter had been passed on to Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon.
“My sense is that there is now some policy wonk looking the matter, and checking to see if a live animal gift would be appropriate,” Mr. McDonald said.
The Scottish Terrier and Dog News, however, sees a few obstacles. First off, the puppy is called Blackie, which may not be suitable. And second, he is a serious chewer and we wouldn’t want a “Blame Canada” situation if he eats up some of Michelle’s fancy Jimmy Choo shoes or, worse yet, shreds the code for that special phone.
This is the kind of situation that could easily go either way, endearing or alienating Canada forever to the Obamas depending on Blackie’s character. Paging John Grogan.
If this is the dog and not just one of the pups in the litter, it sure doesn’t explain why he’s called Blackie.
Notice to new readers: The Scottish Terrier and Dog News is renowned for its coverage of presidents and their dogs. Along with the Obama puppy, it has also given you the latest news on ex-French president Jacques Chirac heading to hospital after getting bitten by his own Maltese lapdog, a complete archive on George and Barney Bush, the scoop on Vladimir Putin’s secret poodle, Pervez Musharraf’s hidden Pekes, Eliot Spitzer’s wheaten terrier and Bichon Frise, Jackie Kennedy’s Scottie and much more.
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See lapata’s portraits of Bush, Musharraf and Putin with their dogs.
Of course, we would never be as rude about the Obama dog as the AKC.
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Rope toy fun with Willie the Labradoodle, originally uploaded by Lauren Piscopo.
Then they came for the rope toy. And then they came for the first dog role.
Yes, it’s a Scottish Terrier with a Labradoodle, candidate for first dog.
We definitely should have read the Monopoly warning better.
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