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Commander, the Biden household’s two-year-old German Shepherd, has bitten one more Secret Service agent.
The assault occurred on Monday evening and the officer was handled on complicated, the Secret Service mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
This is the eleventh time the canine has bitten a guard on the White House or the Biden household home.
The White House press secretary has beforehand blamed the assaults on the stress of residing on the White House.
“As you all know, the White House complicated will be distinctive and really traumatic. That is one thing I’m certain you may all perceive,” she mentioned in July.
“It is exclusive and it’s traumatic for all of us. So you may think about what it is like for a household pet or household pets, extra broadly.”
Commander is the younger of the Biden household’s two German Shepherds. The different biting incidents occurred on the president and first girl’s home in Delaware.
“Yesterday round 8pm, a Secret Service Uniformed Division police officer got here in touch with a First Family pet and was bitten,” mentioned Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
He later informed CNN that the injured officer spoke to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Tuesday and is doing OK.
In July, White House officers mentioned they had been making an attempt new leashing and coaching methods on Commander, following a rash of assaults on personnel.
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Commander seen barking as Mr Biden departs the White House on 25 June 2022
One incident occurred on 26 October 2022 after First Lady Jill Biden was unable to maintain Commander beneath management, an e mail says.
“While posted,” Commander “got here charging at me”, the agent wrote within the e mail.
The officer added that Mrs Biden “could not regain management of Commander and he continued to circle me.
“I imagine it is solely a matter of time earlier than an agent/officer is attacked or bit.”
About every week later one other officer wrote that he was bitten twice. Another officer that witnessed the assault mentioned they had been compelled to make use of a “metal cart to defend” themselves from the attacking canine.
On 11 December 2022 an agent was attacked in entrance of Mr Biden and was bitten on the forearm and thumb.
Mr Biden “was current and convened within the very fast interplay of Commander and appeared involved about” the injured officer, a supervising agent wrote.
None of the accidents described within the 194 pages of emails had been described as severe.
The different Biden canine, Major, has additionally been concerned in quite a few biting incidents with Secret Service brokers.
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Commander arrived on the White House as a puppy in 2021
He has since been moved out of the White House and now lives with Biden household buddies.
Commander arrived on the White House in 2021 as a puppy. He was a present from Mr Biden’s brother James.
The First Family even have a cat named Willow.
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