"Bo" – The New Member At The White House

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 14:06

Some people just don't seem to understand until it's too late to be understood. For instance, the American President, Barrack Obama.

Going against all odds, he decided to go ahead with his decision to buy Bo – the first dog ever to be tamed in the The White House. The Obama's, though, have bought the dog, the problem seems to be acute now. Animal experts say that it'll tough for the dog to be brought up in the President's house. "The hardest thing will be getting 'Bo' to understand what's acceptable and what's not because he will be constantly distracted," the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Phillip Raclyn, a veterinarian at the Riverside Animal Hospital in Manhattan, as saying. "He'll have so many people around him I'm not sure he'll really understand who his real masters are. And if he has a hundred different people telling him what he can and can't do, he might not learn any of it," Raclyn said.

First lesson for the pup is to learn who is the authority, and from pictures taken of the Obama's walking Bo, the dog is always seen leading them. Famed 'dog whisperer', Cesar Millan says the first step is walking ahead of your dog to establish the humans as pack leaders, and in Bo's case, he said it will require a team effort. "Everybody needs to work together to be a support team... Michelle, the girls, the cleaning ladies, the FBI," Millan said.

As for safeguarding the White House and residence, though the Obamas have been puppy-proofing the areas where Bo roams, it will be no small task either. Other likely puppy-proofing tactics include storing all chemicals like cleaners and fertilizers out of reach and covering or concealing electrical wires. So, it definitely looks the Obama's will have to spend a great deal of time as the puppy, Bo, grows with the time. All is well when one has got all the time in the world. But hey, are we not not talking about the President of America here?

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