Joe Biden’s dogs were reportedly returned to the Delaware family home after displaying aggressive behavior toward White House staff.
Champ and Major, both German shepherds, were sent home last week after Major had a “biting incident” with a member of the White House Security Team, CNN reported.
Major, who is three years old, was adopted by the Bidens in 2018 and is the first White House to be adopted from a shelter. Since moving in a week after the president’s inauguration in January, he ‘is known to have had agitated behavior on several occasions, including jumping, barking and’ accusing ‘staff and security’ , reports CNN, citing two sources in the White House.
Champ, who is about 12, has ‘physically slowed down due to his advanced age’, CNN reports. He was adopted as a puppy in 2008 shortly after Biden was elected vice president. The dogs are the first to occupy the White House since Bo, the dog of Obamas. Donald Trump, who thought getting a dog would be ‘crazy’, was the first American president in a century not to have a dog company.
Referring to “a person familiar with the dogs’ schedule,” CNN reports that it was known that the dogs were staying in Delaware when the first lady, Jill Biden, was there.
The Guardian contacted the White House for comment.
Jill Biden said in a February interview with singer and talk show host Kelly Clarkson that she’s obsessed with getting [the] dogs settled ”.
The dogs’ Twitter account, The First Dogs of the United States, was as recent as Monday tweet a photo of Champ in the White House.