Posted on 03/17/2021 8:21:56 AM PDT by SJackson
President Biden came to the defense of his German shepherd rescue dog Major after he caused what the President described as "a minor incident" last week at the White House.
Biden said Major, one of his two German shepherds, was just startled in his new home when he caused what the White House called a "minor injury" to someone last week.
"You turn a corner, and there's two people you don't know at all," Biden said in an interview with ABC's Good Morning America. "And he moves to protect. But he's a sweet dog. Eighty-five percent of the people there love him. He just — all he does is lick them and wag his tail."
"Major did not bite someone and penetrate the skin," he said.
...snop...
After the incident, the dogs were sent back to Biden's Delaware home, because the President said he and first lady Jill were on the road, away from the White House. But Biden said that in the meantime, Major is undergoing some remedial training.
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I used to be a German Shepard guy until I got my first Rottweiler. I had always heard nothing but negative about them, but learned they are loyal and loving. Had one on Pet Pals with Patty Spitler, he was always chosen for meet the breed. We had him at shows and kids would hang all over him, he would reciprocate with kisses and lay on his back to they could rub his belly.
However it doesn’t matter what breed of dog, you don’t just assume you can reach down and pet it. So the problem generally isn’t with the dog, it is with the person who doesn’t know and understand dogs.
Indeed it is and too many people don’t know the ingrained nature of the breeds they buy.
For instance, too many ACDs end up in shelters because “the dog keeps “nipping” the kids”.
Well duh.
They’re herders and the kids are the herd.
It’s who they are.
He wants me to be “biddable”.
I am hardwired to not be “ biddable “.
This is like when he is trying to open something in the car and he asks me “you got a knife on you?”
I swear it’s like he doesn’t even know me.
:D
/where the wild things are
I know he likely asks out of knee-jerk reflex habit...:)
I think the dog’s like 10 years old, a little late to start training. He’s handled Major pretty much like Hunter.
sweet dog is an excuse for owners to try to dismiss personal blame for not training and being situationally aware of their unleashed animals.
‘rounding a corner and two strangers’ is a situational risk at any mega-populated space, that the owner should have been aware of and trained for prior to entering that mega-populated space. It’s not like Biden didn’t have 3 months to do so.
But he married Sally Scissorhands fer crying out loud.
:D
LOL...those of us who carry knives.
Funny. Just a few years ago, I was in Marblehead, MA (nice town, touristy though) and I was walking up a narrow street open to pedestrians and saw a curious thing on the ground. I picked it up, and a young guy (maybe 14 or so) saw me pick it up to examine it.
He apparently saw it at the same time I did, and when I picked up he came over and asked me what it was.
It looked to me like...a knife handle. A handmade, very beautifully made knife handle. I told him what I thought it was, and he looked puzzled. He asked why it would be there, and I speculated it might have fallen off of a knife , who knows.
He asked who would walk around with a knife?”
I said a lot of people carry knives, and I had been carrying one since I was about eight years old and took it out to demonstrate.
While we were talking, a guy came up and saw me holding it and exclaimed “Thank God you found it!”
He had been sitting on a bench working on it, carving it, and when he got up to leave he had dropped it...:) I think that guy had put some loving work into it, and probably had a blade all ready for it.
What stuck with me was the amazement of this young kid that people would carry around knives, that the concept was so foreign to him.
I learned a lot about things with a pocket knife. First, never poke the point directly into something if the blade is not a locking one! Kept that lesson my whole life, after I had a blade fold up on me and get my finger good!
But I thought how sad it was that somewhere, somehow, school, home, whatever, somebody put it in this kid’s head that pocketknives...pocketknives! were somehow a bad or evil thing.
/has a bad thing for switchblades and daggers
Where does Pinky come down on the St. Patrick’s Day thing?
He’s Colombian.
He does not care.
:D
/Pinky O’Boa
I think Major is 2 or 3.
The old crippled dog is in his teens, I believe.
Not acquainted with any grudge-holding Irish expat refugees?
You’re correct. Protecting Joe is Major’s job. Joe should have controlled him.
That’s Champ, Major is just three. Very trainable, in fact if trained, and his training needs reinforcement, the blame is Joe’s for letting him run off leash.
exactly
Maybe he can be retrained to be a lying pony soldier.
Not really but I’ve been known to say “Happy eradication of the ancient indigenous people’s religion day”.
;)
Pissing people off is half the fun of being Irish. ☘️
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