By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter
21:29 26 Sep 2023, up to date 21:33 26 Sep 2023
- Commander bit a Secret Service agent on Monday evening
- ‘The officer was handled by medical personnel on advanced,’ Secret Service mentioned
- It’s the eleventh time the German Shepherd has bitten an agent
President Joe Biden’s canine Commander has bitten one other Secret Service agent, marking the eleventh biting incident on the White House.
The 2-year-old German Shepherd bit an agent on Monday night.
‘Yesterday round 8pm, a Secret Service Uniformed Division police officer got here in touch with a First Family pet and was bitten. The officer was handled by medical personnel on advanced,’ USSS chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi mentioned in an announcement to DailyMail.com.
The injured officer is doing okay, the Secret Service mentioned. The incident was first reported by CNN.
Secret Service emails obtained by Judicial Watch in July revealed the canine had bitten or threatened a minimum of 10 individuals, making this the eleventh biting incident involving the primary pet.
One agent was despatched to an area hospital after the go bit them on the arm and leg, and one was attacked when Jill Biden let him off his leash.
The agent additionally had to make use of a metal protect to fend him off from one other assault.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blamed stress for the canine’s conduct.
‘As you all know, the White House advanced could be distinctive and really worrying. That is one thing I’m positive you’ll be able to all perceive,’ Jean-Pierre mentioned. ‘It is exclusive and it’s worrying 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 the primary household was ‘working by way of methods to make the scenario higher for everybody.’
At the time of the launched emails in July, the White House mentioned the Bidens have been working by way of new coaching and leashing protocols for Commander however did not element what they have been.
Jill Biden’s workplace didn’t reply to DailyMail.com’s request for remark concerning the latest incident.
In the batch of emails launched in July, Secret Service officers known as the canine ‘freaking loopy,’ argued he would have been ‘put down’ if he did not belong to the Bidens and mentioned he wanted a muzzle.
On November 10, 2022, Jill Biden ‘could not regain management’ of Commander because the canine charged one other member of the Secret Service.
The identical month, the German Shepherd clamped down on an agent’s arm, leading to him needing to hunt medical remedy.
The Bidens welcomed Commander to the chief residence as a puppy in December 2021.
He was a birthday reward to President Biden from his brother James and sister-in-law Sara.
Commander is just not the primary pet of the Bidens’ to trigger some points for the primary couple.
Another one of many Bidens’ German Shepherds, Major, additionally bit workers and Secret Service brokers.
The canine moved out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2021 and re-homed with ‘household buddies’.
