Champ has been with the Bidens since Christmas 2008 after the family bought him from a breeder.
Major and his siblings had been abandoned at the shelter and were ‘not doing well at all’ when rescuers took them in, said the center.Remove Ticks From Your Dog With a Pair of Tweezers. Don’t have a tick remover on hand? You can carefully remove ticks from your dog with a pair of fine tipped tweezers. Grab the tick by it’s mouth area (the part closest to your dogs skin) and pull firmly until it’s removed. Place the tick in a jar of alcohol to kill it, and be sure to wear gloves when dealing with ticks since they can transmit diseases to pets & people.
Biden contacted the shelter and took Major home as a foster owner, before falling in love with him and deciding to adopt.
The White House has a long history of presidential pets, with an exhibition showcasing photographs of them on the wall in the East Wing. In 2016, Donald Trump became the first president in more than a century to not have a dog. In a video included in an unofficial Biden campaign advert, Trump said with a grimace: ‘How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?’ The video, created by Dog Lovers For Joe Biden, suggested that Trump could not be trusted because he did not own a dog .
It then cuts to a photo of Biden with Champ and says: ‘Choose your humans wisely.’ George W. Bush had three dogs – two Scottish terriers called Barney and Miss Beazley, and an English Springer Spaniel called Spot. Bill Clinton’s family lived with beloved chocolate Labrador Buddy. Franklin D Roosevelt’s Scottish terrier Fala became so famous he had cartoons and a film made about him.INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: Your dog can smell your feelings. In fact, your dog’s sense of smell is approximately 100,000 times better than yours. So it shouldn’t be shocking that they can in fact, smell things such as fear. When a human is fearful, they perspire, and a dog is easily able to pick up on this change.
Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at[email protected] .
For more stories like this,check our news page .
Sign Up for News Updates
Get your need-to-know latest news, feel-good stories, analysis and more
Not convinced? Find out more »