Meet America’s First Dogs, Champion and Major Biden

When President-elect Joe Biden steps into the White House in January, he will also bring some of his furry family members – German Shepherd’s champion and pioneer. That’s right: After a four-year vacancy, there won’t be one, but two FPOTUS (first pet in the U.S.) again.

As Biden’s oldest dog and an expert on capital politics, Champ will show his younger brother the ropes. Sasha and Malia Obama were promised a pet if their father became president, and Biden made the same commitment to his wife, Jill Biden, who would have pasted pictures of dogs on the seat of the campaign plane in front of her husband. According to Politico. According to his word, the couple adopted the six-week-old champ from a breeder in Chester County, Pennsylvania, about a month after Barack Obama won the 2008 election. Biden’s granddaughters Finnegan and Macy chose the name Champ.

This is Champ and Major Biden’s first video! pic.twitter.com/tQYkm4McmO

– Chris Strider (@stridinstrider) 9 July 2020

Ten years later, a rescue puppy Major entered Biden’s life after his daughter Ashley Biden posted a Facebook post about a group of German Shepherd dogs exposed to toxins in their original home. Biden began sponsoring the flagship in March 2018 before officially adoption Eight months after the Delaware Humane Association in Wilmington.

Why German Shepherds? The president-elect grew up with the dynasty. “I’ve had German Shepherds – since I was a kid. I’ve actually trained them and showed them in the past, my past life,” Biden Tell George Stephanopoulos of ABC in December 2008.

After four years with no pet in the White House, the arrival of the dog-stand looks like another return to normality. In fact, Donald Trump is one of the rare Presidents who has never had a four-legged, feathered or furry friend while in office, and only James K. Even Trump’s lack of pets featured in the Biden campaign message:

Some Americans celebrate # National day, Some celebrate #NationalDogDay President Trump is not celebrating either. It says a lot.

Time to bring a pet back to the White House. pic.twitter.com/6za6FUocfh

Joe Biden October 29, 2019

Perhaps Champ and Major will get recommendations on West Wing living from his predecessors Bo and Sunny Obama. In his first term, Poe flew aboard Air Force One, met members of Congress, paused to attend dog grooming sessions at Alexandria’s Old Town Dog School and vacations at Camp David – large footprints that Champ and Major must fill in.