I'm reading "Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major" (NY Post).
Two aggressive, uncontrollable dogs? Clearly, the fault of the humans.
Remember when Trump was criticized just for not having a dog? ("I wouldn't mind having one honestly, but I don't have time. How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?... Feels a little phony to me. People say, Oh, you should get a dog. Why? It's good politically. I said, That's not the relationship I have with my people.")
ADDED: Harry Truman famously said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." Joe Biden got 2 dogs in Washington and both were enemies.
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Zlochevsky's dog is smarter than Biden's dog, and both dogs are smarter than Hunter.
Weren't there just articles talking about how Biden snaps and yells at staff? Yeah, I'm sure the detestable psychological makeup of this man and his entire family has no bearing whatsoever on the animals they keep or their behavioral manifestation of canine aggression, neuroticism or paranoia.
Not even Nixon's dog behaved this badly and he used to beat it and pull on its ears.
I have a pure bred German Shepherd. Trained, trained, and trained again not to nip, bite or be aggressive. Never an issue. Biden’s an idiot. No news there.
How does a White House dog work?
Having a second aggressive dog that bit seven people in four months is extraordinary. Normally, that dog would have been put down five victims ago. Nobody expects the president to choose, walk, feed or train a dog. Is Biden's friend CornPop in charge of the White House dog?
Yet another example of our two-tiered justice system….sigh.
"Not even Nixon's dog behaved this badly and he used to beat it and pull on its ears."
I think that was LBJ. Here is the bastard in action:
https://www.history.com/speeches/lyndon-johnson-lifts-dog-by-ears
I'll refrain from the obvious "what would Obama do" reference.
who else wondering if FJB showered naked with dog/bitch?
Once they develop a taste for the Secret Service, they'll never to go back to kibble.
Cocaine Dog.
I don't want to go too often to this well, but... imagine the press of this had been a Trump drug.
Just checking, Joe hasn't been hauling the dogs into the shower, has he? Do these dogs keep a diary?
German Shepherds have to be well trained to be around so many different people. I'm guessing training isn't possible because Joe is incapable and Jill is far too busy taking care of Joe. No more dogs.
Had to do the same thing with grandparents.
“Commander”? “Major”? This nitwit took 5 draft deferments to avoid military service. Now he is compensating by giving his dogs militaristic names and not training out their aggression. What an asshole. Biden is the perfect caricature of what liberals usually make of conservatives, but he gets a pass.
Reading the article was a tad confusing because of the use of "they, them" pronouns. It seems that the dog was a biting a lot of "thems" and yet, it was one person at a time. It's a shame that the rules of the English language are sacrificed for this political correctness.
Just put that rabid thing down!
And then it shouldn't be hard to find the dog a new home.
Don't all criminal families have aggressive dogs to guard their cocaine stash? They might be auditioning for a new Animal Planet series like "Parolees, Presidents, and Badass Dogs".
What? No comparisons to Hitler and his love of German Shepards?
if One dog is a biter.. It COULD BE the dog..
if EVERY dog you have is a biter.. it is YOUR FAULT
Impeach!
So there is at least one Commander in Washington with some bite.
How chaotic is the Biden White House?
All time best Althouse community comments above.
Maybe, just Maybe, if there wasn't SO MUCH crack cocaine use in the white house, the dogs could be a little mellower. Maybe Dr Jill could TRY to go ONE DAY without cocaine? Just ONE DAY?
ps. seriously, at age 16 she was a cocktail waitress, on the Jersey Shore.. in the early 1970's!
You really want to pretend that she's NOT a regular cocaine user? REALLY?
Secret Service people might be natural bitees, managing to do everything wrong.
put body-cam on dog and stop use same drug cocktail on dog and master/
Obama's dog Sunny bit a WH visitor in the face. What is it with their violent dogs? https://mashable.com/article/sunny-obama-bites-white-house-visitor
Cesar Millan, aka the Dog Whisperer, would blame the owner. He’d be right.
I remember when Mitt Romney had, decades before, put his dog on the roof of a car for travel. That was a huge deal. Biden having a dog that bites enough to break skin, over and over? No big.
In a rational world the Secret Service agent would have killed the dog on the spot when it attacked him and made him seek medical care. Let the WH make excuses over that if you have pictures of the wounds on the agent.
But after the magic bag of cocaine mystery owner quest we just went through with all the shuffle and jive from the Secret Service - I really have no sympathy for these guys anymore. Your job is supposed to be to physically protect, not to clean up scandals. And that seems to be more their job these days.
"I think that was LBJ. Here is the bastard in action"
I stand corrected. I wasn't even alive for either so my apropos of nothing regarding presidents is hazy pre-Reagan. Thanks.
Fascinating that Biden believes the dog and not the professional security experts. Do you need any more examples of his impaired judgment?
Dog's can develop a taste for members of specific agency, to the exclusion of all other government employees.
For example, there was a beloved wiener dog named Oscar, kind of a mascot at an EPA field office in Nebraska, that devoured several Department of Agriculture employees over the years, stripped them to the bone. The creature was as sweet as pie to everybody else. He seemed to be especially affectionate with IRS agents, for some reason.
Anyway, they couldn't break Oscar of his USDA habit. They tried everything. If he ate someone, right away they'd beat him really hard and chain him up out back, but Oscar gave no indication he was the least bit contrite. Somebody said they should try switching him from dry food to wet food. Pffft. That was joke. They even started him on a CBD oil regimen. Nothing helped. Finally, they had to put Oscar in a crate and drive him to the big city. A sad day, by all accounts.
How did that cocaine get into the White House?
“Commander”? “Major”? This nitwit took 5 draft deferments to avoid military service. Now he is compensating by giving his dogs militaristic names and not training out their aggression.
@Leland, + 1
So, is there anything not-nasty to report about the Bidens?
The left remain loyal to Biden.
woof.
So? Why would a Biden dog be accountable for its behavior?
Pets of democrats are props.
I expect now the media are ignoring the dog biting problem. All Biden family problems will we washed clean by the corrupt hack-D loyalist press.
A cliche because it is true: "There is no such thing as a bad dog . . . only a bad owner."
imagine the press of this had been a Trump drug.
Geez, put on the reading glasses, Jamie.... Imagine the press IF this had been a Trump DOG!
What happens to dogs when they do cocaine?
Biden is such a nasty piece of work. If I were a Secret Service agent I would put the dog down, and then sue when they fired me.
There are no bad dogs only bad owners. At least "Commander" didn't get mysteriously "Hit by a car" or get left behind like Socks the Cat.
Had Hillary got elected in 2016, I wounder if she would have adopted two more unfortunate animals that would "disappear" once they'd served their purpose.
I always remember my Mother hating LBJ because he picked his dog up by his ears.
It's the climate change!
Democrats love to deride Republicans as white trash, so it's kind of funny that their president has all the hallmarks: Raises dogs that bite people, check. Is stupid but brags about his intelligence, check. Has a son who's a junkie, check.
It's cute that people think Joe Biden is directly involved in any dog's training.
That's a job for his staff.
The dog was selected purely for optics.
so the Whole point of the Biden residency is to make all the other Demo President look not so bad?
The leaking of this story is the tipping point. The Dems will get rid of Biden now.
What is Biden doing? Torturing that dog? Or is Hunter doing the torturing?
I’m imagining a movie set in the White House “Cocaine Dog”
Consider this, perhaps both dogs were very loyal to Joe and took offense at people they thought were trying to abuse him. He's a senile old man and perhaps his handlers get frustrated and his dogs have checked them.
I'm pretty sure in the county I live that the dog would have been required to be put down after the second bite. I know for sure due to experience that one reported bite results in a report to the county and a visit from the animal control police.
FWIW, the "bite" in our case was from a 3-month old, maybe 3-lb miniature Schnauzer puppy that was choked out by a litter mate whose lower jaw was caught in the puppy's collar. (Puppy passed out from lack of oxygen.) In separating them, skin on my wife's finger was punctured by one of the puppy's sharp teeth. My wife saw the blood, and first thought it was from one of the dogs. She took the choked-out puppy to the vet to make sure she was fine, and the vet reported the "bite" to the government and within 24 hours 2 agents showed up at our front door.
Trump never bit anybody.
Impeach the dog.
A House resolution to impeach the First Dog would be -- I think -- the sixth introduced (and otherwise unacted-upon) impeachment resolution in this Congress.
How are the Republican House members in swing/Biden districts going to run in 2024? They are relying so much on turnout, and on keeping stuff like redistricting and abortion off the ballot, so as to not excite turnout. But they are going to need a lot of luck and a lot of avoidance of the record of this Congress.
Sebastian said...
So, is there anything not-nasty to report about the Bidens?
Ha! No. No there isn'.
PS...I wonder if brandon got the idea of biting that kid in Finland from his dog?
Biden is the perfect caricature of what liberals usually make of conservatives, but he gets a pass.
Excellent point. Not to mention a bigger liar than even the guy the media shot their wad over making extravagant claims about his veracity.
Secret service agents are a bad choice to handle dogs. Sunglasses, black suits, and they smell like guns. A lot of dogs don't like any of those things. Plus, why are some of the most expensive, highly trained people on earth dogsitting?
The dogs were clearly screwed up, but I'll wager if they'd just been handled by some ordinary 22 year old girl who likes and knows dogs there would have been a lot less bites.
“ Biden, 80, has reportedly expressed doubts about the honesty of a Secret Service member who reported being bitten on the leg by his prior dog”
Not very smart when the agent’s job is to take a bullet for you and you just made them suck up their professional pride to protect your crackhead son who left his coke behind in the White House
Sounds like the dogs picked up some bad habits from Dr. Jill.
Lie down with Bidens, wake up with fleas.
If you want to understand the man, look at his dog.
The "get a dog" quote is one I have read many times. My (faulty) recollection was that the statement originated with House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Do a quick Google search, and you will find it attributed to Harry Truman. But . . . not so fast. You will find a fact check that was conducted by PolitiFact of a statement made by John Kasich in 2016 crediting the "dog" quote to Truman. But the good people at PolitiFact (snarc) checked with the Harry S. Truman Library/Museum . . . and they have never been able to verify that Truman every said it. Kasich's statement was ruled "False". Not quite sure why an apocryphal but otherwise harmless quote such as this would have justified a fact check in 2016.
Privately, Nixon was such a good soul (the White House Staff loved him and abhored LBJ and the Kennedys) that his loyal dog Checkers stepped up and saved his vice presidential nomination for him.
Dogs know.
Bob Boyd...LOL...and I’m still laughing...LOL.
Leland nails it.
Biden is more like Mr. Burns every day.
I've always felt that presidents should choose their dogs from the All-American Mutt Breed.
It is rumored that long, long ago, at Texas A&M University, the school mascot dog Reveille was trained to snap at people wearing black & white striped shirts, such as football referees. She walked along the sidelines of the football field with her Cadet handlers during games, and referees that I saw near her always gave her a wide space in which to enjoy the games.
Couldn’t they just get Obama to eat the dogs?
Commander is chip off the old block. Training? Nope don't need it. Similarly, Hunter Biden was not trained on proper behavior, the than the graft portion. For that he became a world class expert.
“Yet another example of our two-tiered justice system….sigh”
I don’t think it is exactly that here, but maybe a bit.
With Crooked Hillary living in the WH, we learned what the federal employees employed there were the “help”, who could be abused by the First Family, whoever it took their fancy. Nobody apparently wanted to be on her SS detail. Ditto for FJB’s detail as VP, esp when he would swim nude. Female agents? Not his problem. They know whose cocaine that was, found in a place in the WH that is tightly controlled. There very likely were fingerprints on both the baggy and the cubby. It was very likely someone with a top hard pass, a family member, or someone brought in by a family member. The Biden’s see it as part of job of their S S personnel to be bitten by their dogs. Just as it was for FJB’s female S S detail to watch him swim nude. They are “help”, and do what they are told. It’s very demeaning, and they should worry that the agents so abused might not jump quite as quickly in front of a bullet aimed at them. But they don’t, because they assume that the S S are professionals. And note the difference between the last three Dem Presidents, and the last two Republican ones, who knew everyone’s names, and in GWB’s case, would routinely ask staff, whether WH, S S, etc, about family members, etc. Trump, the day after his nomination, had a televised meeting of staff, and thanked the many people who had made it possible - the carpenters building the stage, the various security agencies involved (including the S S), etc. Both showed exceptional appreciation for all those working for them.
I think that we all know what is going on. Part of the joy of exercising power is the ability to the ability to show people that they have power over them. That often translates into demeaning them, whether it be your boss screaming at you, or FJB swimming nude in front of female S S agents, or keeping dogs that repeatedly bite lesser beings, including S S agents. And it’s not just Dem men - Nancy Palsi was equally storied in her abuse of staff.
If you held people criminally liable for the actions of their dogs, there would be fewer dogs.
"Two aggressive, uncontrollable dogs? Clearly, the fault of the humans."
Or is it because they insist on getting "rescues?"
If any Republican President had even ONE canine who bit that much, libtards would be saying he was abusing his dog or something.
It's said that owners come to resemble their dogs--we've all seen the pictures of people/canine lookalikes.
It goes the other way as well. Dogs come to resemble their owners. And if the owner is a nsty piece of work, snarling, snapping and making biting comments at those around him (Slow Joe I'm lookng at you) well what is a loyal dog to do?
It adopts its owners mannerisms. No joke. Come on dog, that's no malarkey. So the dog gives his bark "as a Biden". And you can take that bark to the bank.
Biden's dogs are turning out like his children.
Vicious criminals need vicious dogs. It’s not rocket science
Heard Erik Erickson say on the radio that dogs feed off the energy of their owner.
Whose energy is VP Kamala... wait.
Is that a toxic masculinity question?
Althouse writes, "Two aggressive, uncontrollable dogs? Clearly, the fault of the humans."
Clearly, this is Althouse being facetious. Defenders of dangerous canines often blame the human victims for transgressing some absurd and specious rule of dog behavior. Whenever a toddler is mauled to death by a pit bull, there's always a pit bull fancier available to explain why the child deserved its fate, which is nth-degree bullshit, but there is a sizeable minority who eat up that crap with a runcible spoon. The truth is dogs, along with everyone else who is a card-carrying eukaryote, obey their genes. All canine lineage have a genetic imperative for violent, death-dealing action being members of genus Lupus. The difference in dogs is another genetic imperative that makes them behaviorally submissive to a human, not all humans, but the human, the significant other. Good, morally upright people own nice friendly dogs. Shitheads and "badass motherfuckers" own dangerous and useless beasts that bite children, poop on your lawn, and dig up your delphiniums.
Clearly, the pattern of aggressive violence seen in the Biden family pets is the result of Joe Biden's psychotic abuse of his canine slaves.
Try that in a small town!
In a small town, there are exactly zero second chances for dogs that bite a person...ZERO. They are put down, before a scab can start. Not put to sleep by the vet .22 shell. Not shuffled off to some farm...because the farmer doesn't want it to bite his family, or visitors.
This is simple stuff.
A cliche because it is true: "There is no such thing as a bad dog . . . only a bad owner."
Our daughters family had to put down there dog. They had a Wiener dog for 15 years, old age forced them to put him to sleep during covid. Replaced him with a 8 week old puppy, Pit bull cross. Never bit anyone, but the family never trusted him, and he was aggressive. They spent over $1000 in professional, training. 10 months after they got him, they put him down. There is no room for mistakes.
They are good people that have had success with dogs and cats. Just like people, there are bad dogs.
Dogs reflect their owners.
- GSD Owner since 1996
Rusty said...
“Trump never bit anybody.“
Nor did he sniff anyone. Far as I know, Trump never even licked anybody. Although he sure gave Hillary a licking in ‘16.
Find the dog a real home, and just stop the whole White House Pet nonsense. They are just props for the most part and do not need to be there. Think of the stress put on them being in that environment. Our companion animals need calm and stability around them - and the White House is none of those.
Do it for the dog and stop using it as a photo op.
So who paid for the hospital bills? Biden's insurance or the taxpayer? I'm betting it was the latter.
Let's recall just how weird Joe's story about hurting his ankle while pulling his dog's tail happened, as Joe told it to fake Jake Tapper:
“What happened was I got out of the shower. I got a dog and anybody who’s been around my house knows — dropped, little pup dropped a ball in front of me. And for me to grab the ball,” Biden told CNN journalist Jake Tapper in his first post-election joint interview with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
“And I’m walking through this little alleyway to get to the bedroom. And I grabbed the ball like this and he ran. And I’m joking, running after him and grab his tail. And what happened was that he slid on a throw rug. And I tripped on the rug he slid on. That’s what happened. Oh man, not a very exciting story.”
Now I know he was supposedly sharper back then, but the use of the word "alleyway" where any normal person would have said "hall" struck me as highly unusual before I got to the actual facts. I mean, really the whole scene is freaky. He exits the shower naked and runs after the dog grabbing its tail in the alleyway near his bedroom. That's how he twisted his ankle. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
You know you smartass fuckers would have a field day dissecting this story if Trump had told it, but I remember it made barely a ripple then, just like the initial dog-bites-SS agent story faded quickly. And even as you dismiss it again now, you know it explains a LOT of the biting that happened. These Bidens are just too fucking weird.
If Joe Biden had really accepted $10s of millions in bribes, he could simply hire a few dog handlers to watch his dogs 24/7 and take them everywhere they need to go around the White House on leash. The fact that he hasn’t done that proves he is innocent of the alleged bribery schemes.
How has it not occurred to the Secret Service that they could do assign dog handlers? Perhaps it has and they think it is beneath their dignity, or crosses the line of what they perceive to be a proper expenditure. But it seems rather obvious that this is what they should do to keep their agents from being bit.
Freeman Hunt,
Or is it because they insist on getting "rescues?"
You mean, as opposed to the products of a puppy mill? Or super-curated dogs like the Obamas' Labradoodles?
I have never gotten a dog from a shelter -- though I grew up with dogs -- but my two cats were both "rescues," one from a humane society in Novato, CA, and the other (via my mom) from a feral cat colony in MD. Neither is any trouble -- well, except that Charlie (the MD one) is now diabetic, and getting him to sit still for twice-daily "vetsulin" injections is something of a task.
Both are of an age, and that age is getting into "wow, are you still alive?" territory. I dread the day one of them dies. It can't be more than a couple years off, maybe sooner.
My dad’s rule was: never own a dog you can’t physically subdue in the event he/she turned on you.
Bidens insurance has always been paid for by the tax payers.
Bidens insurance has always been paid for by the tax payers.
Biden’s insurance has always been paid for by the tax payers since 1970 or so.
People get German Shepards for protection. Maybe it’s age related paranoia or maybe it’s a distrust of his security detail. The aggressive behavior may be a feature and not a bug.
Secret Service agents are like potato chips. Nobody can eat just one.
Although he sure gave Hillary a licking in ‘16.
Not sure what visual you were trying to create, but I just lost my lunch.
Meade, c'mon man! NO further references to "Licking Hillary". Please!
Lem the misspeller asks...
What happens to dogs when they do cocaine?
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olfactory paralysis? stimulation? and total disorientation? like blindfolded and spun around!
'induced anosmia'
Now That's Interesting
One reason dogs smell better than humans is because their noses are simply built better for the job. In addition to more olfactory receptors, dog's noses are constructed to function differently. When canines inhale, a fold of tissue inside the nostril separates the airflow into two paths – one for olfaction and one for respiration. About 15 percent of the air is sent to the olfactory area as it is examined, recognized (or not) and sorted, before it is exhaled.
Two decades ago our family got a half Lab, half Aussie pup. He lived in our house and yard, got walked in our neighborhood, and learned quickly how to behave on a leash. He was six months old and about 50 pounds of lean speed when he ended up unleashed in our front yard. A neighbor a few doors down, a Black man, walked into his yard. Our dog made a beeline for him, barking up a storm and obviously preparing to attack the innocent neighbor, who for his own safety retreated inside his house while the dog went insane on his front porch.
I offered to have our dog euthanized for this dangerous behavior. I'd never seen such behavior before in any dog I'd owned. The neighbor explained that he'd been through this before with dogs, and that some dogs are just very pack-oriented. They see anyone who looks different (race, size, even clothing style) as not in their pack, and become insanely defensive. He suggested acclimitization training as a way to prevent future attacks, and our dog learned that the Black man who came to our yard and gave him seven straight days of treats was a fine fellow, and a member of our pack.
Shepherds as a breed are supposedly quite family or pack oriented and are known to violently defend against strangers. That makes them great guard dogs, but bad family pets for kids. Or presidents.
Between Hunter and the dogs, I’m not sure that Joe is that good a dad.
GS are highly intelligent, highly trainable dogs. If they are biting people it’s because the Bidens don’t care to have them trained to ensure other people’s safety. There really is no other reason, unless they are poorly bred. If so they should be put down because GS are very powerful animals and if they can’t be trained they should be put down.
No muzzling? No 'promise collar' semi-muzzle?
There are two GS dogs a couple of blocks away who refight WWII when anyone walks by--especially if the anyone has a dog along. A couple of pit-bull mixes down the street, likewise.
They are behind stout fences, at least. Only the trashy* people a few houses away let their dogs run loose. A dog doesn't have to have aggressive intent to come out of the bushes or shadows suddenly and cause someone to stumble--like us older folks who walk at night.
*I'm an expert, trust me. OTOH in the '60s everyone's dogs ran as free as the kids.
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