Dog rescue groups offer Obamas the VIP treatment
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Dog rescuers across the country are clamoring to provide the Obama family with a rescue pet that will meet their exacting requirements -- and several have even offered to bring candidates to Washington to meet with the first family. PeoplePets, People Magazine’s new animal blog, got the scoop from some of the nation’s most prominent pet adoption agencies:
‘We have a fleet of mobile units that can transport animals safely and comfortably to Washington, DC.,’ says Devera Lynn, spokeswoman for the world’s biggest no-kill shelter, the North Shore Animal League. ‘He’s the President. We’ll pretty much do anything he needs us to do,’ says Kim Saunders, co-founder of Petfinder.com, which lists 300,000 pets in shelters and breed-specific rescue groups nationwide. Saunders has been talking with the incoming administration and says individual groups would decide whether to send their pup to the Capitol, but ‘I have to say it would be hard to find a group that wouldn’t be thrilled to have a dog end up in the White House.’
A spokesperson for Washington, D.C.’s humane society tells PeoplePets that the shelter often has poodle mixes (the president has mentioned the Labradoodle, a Labrador-poodle cross, as a short-list choice for first dog based on the poodle’s non-shedding coat) available for adoption and would offer in-home training to the Obamas if needed.
Petfinder currently lists six adoptable Portuguese water dogs and Portuguese water dog mixes in shelters and rescue centers from California to Georgia and more than 2,000 poodles and poodle mixes.
But it’s not just rescues and shelters offering to help the first family in their dog search -- a fourth-grader from Fayette County, Pa., has even offered them his own Labradoodle puppy.
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