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The White House announced Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s younger dog, Major, had his second biting incident of the month this week. According to Michael LaRosa, press secretary for first lady Jill Biden, the dog “nipped someone while on a stroll” on Monday, and the dog “is still adapting to his new surroundings.” The individual was examined by the White House Medical Unit “out of an abundance of caution,” according to LaRosa, and returned to work without injury.
Before the president and first lady visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial early Monday evening, the dog was seen by reporters walking around the White House South Lawn.
After causing a minor injury to a US Secret Service employee on March 8, the german shepherd and his sibling Champ were just recently welcomed back to the White House.
“85 percent of the people there love him,” Biden said at the time.
Following the incident, Major, a 3-year-old rescue dog, and Champ, a 12-year-old dog, were transferred to the Bidens’ Delaware home. Major was being raised in Delaware, according to the president, who denied claims that the dog had been sent away following the incident. He clarified that the dogs were taken to Wilmington because the first couple would be out of town.
Biden said, “He was going home.” “I didn’t send him back to his parents’ house. Jill had a four-day trip planned. We took him home because I was going away for two weeks.”
The dogs met the Bidens at Camp David, Maryland, two weekends ago and returned to Washington on March 21. One of the two German shepherds waited on the White House balcony last week as Marine One landed on the South Lawn after ferrying the president back from a speech in Columbus, Ohio.
“The dogs will come and go, and it is not unusual for them to return to Delaware on occasion, much as the president and first lady do,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
