The German Shepherd's attacks caused the Secret Service to change tactics for safety, documents show.
  • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
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    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.

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      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
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      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.

  • Gonkulator@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Dogs are good judges of character. Has there been a purge of secret service since they were turned into trumps personal SS guard? Remember pence refused to get in the car with them? Remember they illegally destroyed all texts and documents related to jan 6?

    • JustMy2c@lemm.ee
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      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

    • seth@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

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

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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.

    • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      What makes you think the president doesn’t have a full time person training dogs and handing the day to day house shit? Do you think he vacuumed and made the bed this morning?

      And there are plenty of asshole dogs with food owners. Need to stop that tired line.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        And there are plenty of asshole dogs with food owners. Need to stop that tired line.

        Biden defenders really that divorced from reality these days?

        But forget all that, why did Biden keep putting the health and safety of his servants over this dog you’re saying he didn’t spend any time with…

        Like, that makes it even worse he waited so long bro, him not spending any time with the dog makes it worse

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Yeah, abused dogs love busy places with a rotating staff of strange men…

            It’s not like Biden could have cut a check for a $500 donations and helped animals more than putting this one in an environment that was dangerous for the dog and humans.

              • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                And it took 24 Secret Service agents being bit…

                Like the part I quoted, there’s likely a lot more staff who got bit but didn’t have to document like secret service does.

                Wouldn’t a rational person have taken him out of there after the first dozen?

                Really way sooner, but 24 is so outrageous even half of it still sounds crazy.

        • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
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          9 months ago

          It’s weird that you are pretending a person that obviously had staff was the only caretaker of the pup.

          It’s also obvious that it would take a while to determine if a reactive dog is not making behavioral improvements.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            So which was it?

            It was his dog he spent time with like he said?

            Or it was a dog that had special White House staff most of the time?

            If he never spent time with it, why stick an abused rescue dog in a hectic environment creating danger for everyone involved? If it was just to humanize Biden for votes, doesn’t this throw all that out the window and show he lied?

            No matter how much you all try to have everything both ways, it doesn’t work out with logic.

            You can’t just define reality as whatever makes your team look best in the moment, keep that stupid shit on the Republican side

            • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
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              9 months ago

              I don’t know how much time he spent with the animal.

              If he was doing the right thing, he probably hired a trainer that works with reactive dogs. That’s not an instant process.

              It is a hectic environment, so it was probably difficult to narrow down the dogs specific triggers.

              You don’t seem like you’ve ever worked with anxious or reactive animals.

              • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
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                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.

                Oh so they did get a lot of different people in trying to find a solution, thought so

  • Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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?