Meet The First Dog....

Yeah, what was I thinking...unless they got a Republican dog...!

Does he need a collar?

The curly coat type PWD: A dog with this type of coat is especially susceptible to distichiasis.

Untreated distichiasis can cause corneal ulcers, chronic eye and eyelid pain, and excessive tearing. It is quite uncomfortable and/or painful for the animal, depending on the amount irritation. If the excessive hair causes any clinical signs at all, the hair should be permanently removed.
Signs include increased blinking, lots of extra tears that often look like a tear streak, and squinting. Dogs don’t typically paw at the eye. The more severe cases are the most easily diagnosed, as the milder cases often involve small softer hairs that can easily be missed.
http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Con...S=0&C=0&A=2684

My parents had a cocker spaniel that had this. I'm sure "Bo" will have the very best in doggy medicine at his disposal.

Well, that wasn't where I was going with it...I was thinking more for "PR" purposes!

I was thinking that it would give them an easy target to blame stuff on after they started having issues that they couldn't reflexively blame on Bush, especially since Berger was the rare Clinton staffer who failed to get a job this time around. They could simply say, "I don't know what happened to those essential and sensitive security documents...Oh, the dog must've ate them!"

But from what I hear, a PWD can barely be controlled with tranquilizers and a shock collar!

Kind of cute, though...I'm more of a 'bigger working class dog' sort of person.

Hey, my dog DID eat my OCPs once. Incredibly embarrassing to call my OB/Gyn's office and say, "I swear I am not making this up, but....."

Yeah. She really did. She was still a puppy and apparently they were in a place where she could get to them (I thought they were safely out of reach, guess not). Funny - they were all neatly popped out of their package and all.

That's actually not my dog, but it looks exactly like one of two dogs I had growing up. The other was a lab/golden mix.