Best Friends Animal Society in Utah has put up a web site and "petition" to counter the nonsense advice from the AKC about getting a poodle or a hairless dog.
Best Friend's more sensible advice: get a mutt from a shelter.
As for the petition, its simply a publicity gimmick,because, guess what? It's still a free country, and the Obama's can get any damn dog they want.
They can even (gasp) get a cat or a pet raccoon or hippo. And yes, there have been pet hippos and raccoons at the White House before -- under Calvin Coolidge.
There have also been tiger cubs at the White House (Martin Van Buren), gamecocks (Ulysses S. Grant), a coyote (Teddy Roosevelt), a zebra (Teddy Roosevelt), and hamsters (Lyndon Johnson).
As to the pairing of the Jack Russell terrier with Obama (top picture), that was Best Friend's choice, not mine.
And yes, a Jack Russell might work out more-than-fine, depending on the dog. Lord knows that Skip, the little terrier Teddy Roosevelt brought back from a bear hunting trip out West, did fine in the White House with Teddy's kids.
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