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Commander, seen on the White House earlier this 12 months, has bitten employees and Secret Service brokers
The Biden household’s canine, Commander, has been moved out of the White House after a collection of biting incidents.
It remains to be being determined what’s going to occur to the two-year-old German Shepherd, a spokeswoman for First Lady Jill Biden stated.
Just final week, Commander bit a Secret Service agent who required medical therapy on the scene.
It was the eleventh time the canine has bitten a guard on the White House advanced or the household home in Delaware.
“The President and First Lady care deeply in regards to the security of those that work on the White House and people who defend them daily,” the spokeswoman, Elizabeth Alexander, stated in a press release on Wednesday.
“They stay grateful for the endurance and assist of the US Secret Service and all concerned, as they proceed to work by options. Commander is just not presently on the White House campus whereas subsequent steps are evaluated.”
She didn’t say the place the canine was presently dwelling or if it could finally return to the White House.
It stated the actual quantity was greater, with one chew requiring hospital therapy and others needing medical consideration from on-site employees.
The White House press secretary has beforehand blamed the assaults on the stress of dwelling on the residence. “As you all know, the White House advanced could be distinctive and really disturbing,” Karine Jean-Pierre stated in July.
“It is exclusive and it’s disturbing for all of us. So you’ll be able to think about what it is like for a household pet or household pets, extra broadly,” she added.
That similar month, White House officers stated they had been trying new coaching methods on Commander following the biting incidents.
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Commander arrived on the White House as a puppy in 2021
One occurred on 26 October 2022 after First Lady Jill Biden was unable to maintain Commander beneath management, an electronic mail says. Commander “got here charging at me”, the agent wrote within the electronic mail.
About per week later one other officer wrote that he had been bitten twice. Another officer that witnessed the attack stated they had been compelled to make use of a “metal cart to defend” themselves from the canine.
Commander is without doubt one of the Biden household’s two German Shepherds. Major, the younger of the 2 and the primary rescue canine to have lived on the White House, was additionally concerned in quite a few biting incidents with Secret Service brokers.
He was given extra coaching in 2021 and despatched to dwell away from the White House with Biden household pals.
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