In the grand scheme of things, the news that Commander, the Bidens’ two year old German Shepherd, has now left the White House, shouldn’t be a big deal. But when you scratch the surface, it actually is, and everyone knows it.

For those who have not followed the saga of the Biden family dogs over the last few years, Joe Biden has a preferred breed – German Shepherds. That’s not a problem, as German Shepherds can be extraordinary family pets when trained properly. Emphasis on the “trained properly” part. (I know of what I speak – my parents adopted a German Shepherd rescue when I was in college. Our beloved Rusty was a part of the family for 14 years, and lived to see three of my four children. My two oldest kids sobbed when they helped bury him. Rusty was a well-trained dog who would have laid down his life for his people.) The Bidens entered the White House with two German Shepherds – Champ and Major. Champ was an older dog that they had had gotten as a puppy when Joe was vice president, who died at age 13 in June 2021. Major was apparently adopted by the Bidens when he was three years old in 2018. When he moved to the White House in 2021, it did not go well. Major started biting people almost immediately, and it was revealed that the reason the Bidens had gotten Major in the first place was to be a younger playmate for Champ.

The two dogs like to remain together, says one person familiar with the pets, something Biden noted last month. Biden said he adopted Major in part as a companion for Champ, to keep the older dog busy and active.

“We got Major, he’s a rescue dog. We asked the vet, ‘What can we do to keep Champ going?’ and he said, ‘Get him a young dog.’ They’re buddies,” Biden told the media on Valentine’s Day while walking the two German Shepherds unleashed on the North Lawn.

Which would have been fine, if Major had been trained. But the first time that Major hit headlines was back in December 2020, when Joe broke his foot while playing with the dog. That explanation was always weird, especially as it involved Biden getting out of the shower and immediately playing with the dog. But since it wasn’t an aggressive act on Major’s part, that really wasn’t the issue.

But once Major started biting people, it became a big problem. And despite the White House’s insistence that the dog just needed some adjustment time, they deliberately concealed how many times Major had been involved in biting incidents, which the press brought up to then-press secretary Jen Psaki.

A reporter cites biting incidents involving First Dog Major, and asks Psaki “If we can’t get honest information about minor stories, why should we have faith in the administration’s account for larger issues like Afghanistan?” pic.twitter.com/p5mKNDdWOR

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 27, 2021

Well, Major never came back to the White House. At the same time that the Bidens tweeted out that they had just gotten a new puppy, Commander, in December 2021, the White House quietly announced that Major was being rehomed.

“After consulting with dog trainers, animal behaviorists, and veterinarians, the First Family has decided to follow the experts’ collective recommendation that it would be safest for Major to live in a quieter environment with family friends,” (First Lady Jill Biden spokesman Michael) LaRosa said. “This is not in reaction to any new or specific incident, but rather a decision reached after several months of deliberation as a family and discussions with experts.”

Who gives a 79 year old man a purebred German Shepherd puppy? No shelter would, but James and Sara Biden, Joe’s brother and sister-in-law, did. (Payback for all of those lucrative business deals?) The Bidens enjoyed the positive pet press, along with the adoption of Willow the cat in early 2022. But now we have learned that Commander, who has just turned two years old, has become so aggressive that Secret Service agents have needed medical attention, including one who went to the hospital.

While the US Secret Service has acknowledged 11 reported biting incidents involving its personnel, sources who spoke to CNN said the real number is higher and includes executive residence staff and other White House workers. Those bites have ranged in severity, from one known bite requiring hospital treatment to some requiring attention from the White House Medical Unit to some going unreported and untreated.

While the first family works for solutions to the ongoing issue, CNN has learned, Commander is not on the White House campus.

It’s unclear if there is an official count of the bites, and US Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi told CNN there is not a complete number. CNN spoke to four sources familiar with the incidents who work at the White House complex, and additional sources with knowledge of what happened. None could put an exact number on the incidents, some of which may not have been followed up on like the 11 known cases. Though DC-area hospitals and urgent cares are required to report patients treated for dog bites to the DC Department of Health, the White House Medical Unit is not required to report dog bites since it is under federal jurisdiction.

One source familiar with the incidents pointed to efforts from their colleagues to adjust Secret Service workplace habits amid broader concerns about workplace safety as they work to support the first family at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The situation has also revealed broader tensions between the Bidens and the US Secret Service. Sources suggest the relationship between the first family and the US Secret Service was first strained when the family’s elder dog, Major, caused an injury to an unnamed Secret Service agent before ultimately being sent away more permanently to Delaware. That incident caused a breach in trust, a source familiar with the dynamic said.

We can all agree that the White House is not an ideal place to train a puppy. But did Commander ever GET any training? He’s supposed to be Joe and Jill’s pet dog. Who was responsible for training him?

Nationally renowned dog trainer Tom Davis says a lack of “leadership,” “boundaries” and “structure” has led to President Biden’s dog, Commander, to go on a biting spree in the White House.

Davis, who has one of the nation’s top dog-training podcasts titled “No Bad Dogs” and specializes in improving the behavior of the nation’s most aggressive canines, criticized the White House’s handling of the president’s purebred German Shepherd.

Commander has bitten Secret Service members 11 times since he was brought to the premises in 2021.

The trainer told Fox News Digital that an intervention must happen in order to save the animal.

Citing his experience working with politicians’ dogs, Davis said he thinks Commander has been “put into an unfair environment to be successful.”

He added, “When Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo was in office — I did a lot of work at the mansion there in Albany, and I know what it’s like to be in that environment where there’s a lot going on, a lot of people, there’s a lot of hustle and bustle, and there are a lot of busy things happening.”

“And to have a dog that doesn’t really have direction and leadership in those environments can really quickly escalate into protection and to fear and to protection in general, like of the house,” Davis told Fox.

A dog is not a living toy that can be casually played with for a photo op as a prop, and then handed off to someone else. Especially not a working, task-driven breed like a German Shepherd. The people ultimately responsible for Commander are Joe and Jill Biden. But Jill is quite happy as a cat person now, and Joe can barely walk himself, let alone an active young dog. As a result, they’ve created a dangerous work environment for the White House staff and the Secret Service – something which current press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre DEFINITELY does not want to discuss.

There are some new pictures of Commander Biden biting a staffer again. How many times has that dog bitten the Bidens?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I would — I would refer you to the Secret Service and also the First Lady’s Office.

Q Okay. It’s the 12th known incident of this dog biting a White House staffer. A lot of times when that happens, there’s a lawsuit. Isn’t the President worried about getting sued?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I would refer you to the Secret Service or the First Lady’s Office.

The threat of physical injury lawsuits is a real one, especially because everyone seems to have been aware that Commander was lashing out at people.

A Secret Service supervisor reportedly warned agents that Commander had bitten staffers in a large number of incidents over the summer, the source said, while describing the job as “hostile” and “dangerous.”

Agents use their radios to alert one another when the allegedly aggressive pooch is outside and warn their colleagues to avoid certain areas or entrances where he may be, according to the source.

What we have here is a bad dog owner. But even that plays into the larger problem that is Joe Biden. He was too old to train and care for a German Shepherd puppy. This was a bad idea from the start, and everyone around who has been bitten has paid the price for letting Joe feed into his “I’m a German Shepherd person” fantasy. And everyone around Joe, Jill included, continues to let him believe the fantasy that he is still sharp enough and healthy enough to run for president again, even though the public has become very aware that the emperor has no clothes on. The admission from Team Biden’s campaign staff that their whole goal is to keep Joe from falling down should be enough for the Democrats to insist on running someone else in 2024. But they can’t do it, and Jill won’t admit it either. Honest question: now that they have sent Commander away, will Joe even notice??

My guess is that the Biden team will decide that they can’t risk any more injuries, and quietly rehome Commander the same way they did with Major. This time, though, Joe cannot be handed another puppy by his brother or anyone else close to him. The third time will NOT be the charm, and would be equal to animal abuse, because any dog would be set up to fail. If Joe desperately needs a dog, give him a realistic stuffed animal. He’s too old to handle his own dog, and he’s too old to handle the job of president. Let Commander live with someone who can take the time to properly train him and give him a stable home, and let Joe be put out to pasture.

UPDATE 12:30 PM PDT
WHAT THE HELL.

BREAKING: According to Judicial Watch sources, "President Biden has mistreated his dogs." Judicial Watch has learned "he has punched and kicked his dogs."

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 5, 2023

Judicial Watch is now SUING the Secret Service as they have not responded to a FOIA request regarding the dog bites that was filed back in July.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Secret Service (part of the Department of Homeland Security) failed to respond to a July 31, 2023, request for all records involving the “Biden family dog, ‘Commander,’ including but not limited to communications sent to and from [Secret Service] officials in the Uniformed and Non-Uniformed Divisions involved with White House operations and the Presidential Protection Division.”

Commander, a purebred German Shepherd, replaced another German Shepherd, Major, who was reportedly “given to family friends” after a succession of attacks on Secret Service and White House personnel. Commander was acquired in December 2021. In April 2022, Judicial Watch released documents detailing multiple assaults and damages to Secret Service agents by Major at the White House and Biden’s lake residence in Wilmington, DE.)

In July, Judicial Watch unearthed records from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a related lawsuit disclosing ten attacks by Biden’s German Shepherd, Commander, on Secret Service officers between October 2022 and January 2023. In multiple instances, the agents required medical care, including hospitalization.

Now, if the FOIA request does contain accounts of Joe Biden abusing Commander, then holy CRAP. It would certainly explain a lot about the dog’s behavior! It would also point to Joe’s increasing inability to manage his own emotional reactions. We have seen him start yelling randomly during speeches. Is it so hard to believe that an old man in a cognitive decline would lash out at a dog as well?

If this report can be substantiated, then everyone attempting to conceal Biden’s treatment of Commander would be complicit in animal abuse. Looking at YOU, Jill.

Featured image: stock image of German Shepherd via Ralphs_Fotos on Pixabay, cropped, Pixabay license