U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to revive the traditions of past presidents who kept pets at the White House.
Biden is expected to bring his dogs from his home in Delaware to the White House, reported by The New York Times (NYT) on the 8th (local time).
Unlike President Donald Trump, who didn't keep pets in the White House, Biden actively expressed his willingness to take his dogs by posting on social media during the campaign, saying, "Let's return your dog to the White House."
It is known that the dogs raised by the biden-elect couple are 5 Shepherds and 1 Great Dane.
Among them, the Shepards, whose names were revealed by Biden-elect, are'Major' and'Champ', and these two have a strong possibility of becoming'First Pet', the companion animals raised by the President. .
'Major' was adopted by a couple of Biden-elect in 2018 by a stray dog protection group in Wilmington, Delaware, and'Champ' is a dog that has been raised since 2008, when the Obama administration was vice president.
If the'major' starts living in the White House, NYT reported that the first abandoned dog rescued since former President Lyndon Johnson (in 1963-69) entered the White House.
Former President Johnson took a stray dog found by his daughter at a gas station in Texas and raised it in the White House.
While the tradition of keeping pets at the White House was briefly cut off during President Trump's days, past US presidents kept a variety of pets.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was an animal collector (in 1901–09), raised not only horses and roosters, but also kangaroo rats, guinea pigs and snakes in the White House.
In addition, former President Calvin Coolidge (presided in 1923-29) raised raccoons as companion animals.
This raccoon was sent to the White House for Thanksgiving cooking in 1926, but former President Coolidge decided to raise a raccoon in the White House and named it'Rebecca'.
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