Joe Biden’s Dog Major Is Ready to Make History: Becoming the First Animal Shelter Dog to Live in the White House | World News

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The White House has been a pet-free zone for the past four years, but the new First Family is expected to bring with it the eight-foot sound, making history in the process.

The German Shepherd Champion and Senior will move to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill take up residence.

And while many First Families before them have also brought puppies to the White House, Major will be the first dog from an animal rescue shelter to live there.

The Bidens will be the first family to bring a rescue dog to the White House. CREDIT: bidendogs Instagram
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The Bidens will be the first family to bring a rescue shelter dog to the White House. Instagram photo: bidendogs

Champ joined the Biden family in 2008, the same year that Joe Biden became Barack Obama’s vice president and when Bo and Sunny, the Obamas’ two Portuguese water dogs, were already residing at the famous address.

US President Barack Obama crouches down to greet his dog, Bo, in front of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, United States, on March 15, 2012. Photo by Martin H. Simon / Pool / ABACAPRESS.COM
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The Obama family had two dogs in the White House: Bo and Sunny

But Major arrived after leaving office.

In 2018, Biden’s daughter Ashley saw a litter of puppies in need of a home on Facebook at the Delaware Humane Association’s animal shelter.

Biden contacted the center and then brought Major home, first to be fostered and then adopted.

And although his future vice president, Kamala Harris, does not currently have a dog, she is known to be a fan of four-legged friends.

Dog lover Kamala Harris supports US National Pet Day Credit: Kamala Harris Twitter
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Dog-loving Kamala Harris often had four-legged visitors in her Senate office

A recent tweet on his official page showed that he regularly received dogs at his Senate office.

President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher walk Reagan's dog Lucky on the White House lawn.
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President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher walk Mr Reagan’s dog Lucky on the White House lawn

There is a long history of canine companions in the White House, and a special permanent exhibit showing photos of them is on the east wing wall.

President William Jefferson Clinton posing with Buddy the Dog outside the White House, April 6, 1999. Image courtesy of the National Archives. (Photo via Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images).
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Buddy was one of two pets the Clintons had while in office. The other was a cat named Socks

The Clinton family had a Chocolate Lab named Buddy, while George W Bush had three dogs in the White House: two Scottish Terriers named Miss Beazley and Barney and an English Springer Spaniel named Spot.

WASHINGTON - AUGUST 13: US President George W. Bush disembarks Marine One as he arrives on the South Lawn of the White House with his dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley, on August 13, 2006 in Washington, DC. Bush returned to Washington after a vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. (Photo by Evan Sisley-Pool / Getty Images)
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President George W. Bush always had a warm welcome from Barney and Miss Beazley each time he disembarked from Marine One in the South Lawn.

Franklin D. Roosevelt had a beloved dog named Fala, a Scottish terrier who became so famous that he made cartoons and a movie about him.

President Johnson orders his dog, Yuki, to leave the Yellow Oval Room today, where formal photographs were taken after Lynda Johnson's marriage to Marine Capt. Charles Robb in the East Room of the White House.
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President Johnson orders his dog Yuki to leave the Yellow Oval Room

Lyndon B Johnson also had a dog, named Yuki, who is said to have traveled often with the president.

Yuki was found by Johnson’s daughter, Luci Nugent, at a gas station in Texas in 1966, according to his library.

His grandson Patrick Lyndon Nugent wrote: “LBJ’s favorite dog was a rescued named Yuki, a white pooch who had been abandoned by his owner at a gas station in LBJ’s hometown of Johnson City, Texas.

“They shared a very significant bond that embodied the American spirit: Only in America could a poor Johnson City kid end up in the White House.”

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