🐾Winston is giving us cattitude for not featuring @ROLEX kitties too, so ⬇️. PS: Kudos to Mr. Williams for his keen pawbservation skills, especially during an event with high security risk status, after a failed coup d'état. 📷 credit: https://t.co/OWMJPOGQHn & Jaquez808 @reddit pic.twitter.com/4rPl5sradE
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 (@TheOvalPawffice) January 25, 2021
My favorite new follow on twitter. Can’t wait for the cat to take over. Winston is Biden’s granddaughter’s cat and is handling twitter cat duties until we get a cat in the Whitehouse, again.
🐾Awoooof! Friends, I got so excited to finally arrive home and see my parents, that I had to run a bit to get that extra energy out before getting inside, that’s why I’m not in the “group” pawhto. Even my tongue is happy. Champ handled the situation much better. – Major #DOTUS👅 pic.twitter.com/hHZwf5rTwt
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 (@TheOvalPawffice) January 25, 2021
🐾 Very impawrtant pawddendum: this photo was taken by @dcclphoto, the White House photographer for our dada @POTUS when he was @VP44, at our Naval Pawbservatory Residence. David Lienemann is also the author of “The Obama Years and the Battle for the Soul of America.” Awooof!
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 (@TheOvalPawffice) January 24, 2021
🐾 Friends, I already pawdmitted and openly woofed about my little hand nip incident that pawccurred when I was a tiny pup, in 2009. You saw the “aftermath” but you didn’t see me red pawed, until now. Here’s the moment the nip happened, captured purrfectly by @dcclphoto. #DOTUS pic.twitter.com/3rO6YUio7H
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 (@TheOvalPawffice) January 24, 2021
Okay, hopefully, that’s enough to put your Monday on the right track. Click on any of the tweets to see them all.
Also: Their products on their website, of course all go to fund animal organizations.
Open thread
eclare
I love following those two puppers!
Jerzy Russian
I guess I am not aware of all internet traditions, but I mostly missed the Rolex watch “scandal”. I have often said that we cannot make progress as a society until saying stupid shit becomes physical painful. Normally, this would mean a kick in the junk for Mr. Williams. However, in the spirit of unity, I am willing to consider other parts of the anatomy as targets for the kick.
dmsilev
@Jerzy Russian: It was an article in (of course) the NYT, carping that one could not be “a man of the people” if one is inaugurated whilst wearing a Rolex watch.
Jerzy Russian
I see that the 4-legged plan for world domination is on track. While the dogs are out in public running around the lawn of the White House and attracting attention, the cats are working their way in behind the scenes unnoticed to where the levels of power are.
Damien
@Jerzy Russian: In the spirit of even greater unity, I propose all suggestions for kick targets be accepted.
Is this account really from something official, or is it an outside group doing it? I’m into it, just curious.
Jerzy Russian
@dmsilev: I assumed it was something like that. Has anyone in his campaign (or Biden himself) ever claimed he is currently poor? I think he was at the low end of the wealth scale when he was in the Senate, but even if that is the case he is clearly financially secure.
Upon further reflection, I withdraw my suggestion that I would consider other parts of the anatomy for Mr. Williams’ kick.
zhena gogolia
@Damien:
It looks official to me.
zhena gogolia
How much did that “I really don’t care, do u?” schmatte cost?
lee
One of my dogs likes to ‘hold your hand’ similar to the last picture.
If she wants pets she’ll grab your hand and drag you over to the couch.
sdhays
@zhena gogolia: Too much, even if it was found by the side of the road, which it looked like it had been.
SiubhanDuinne
Doggos and kittehs make me happy.
Also making me happy, news just now that Rob Portman won’t run for re-election. For all you Buckeye Jackals: who are some of the promising Ohio Dems who might be worth our attention?
sab
@Jerzy Russian: I dunno. Geman Shedders in the White House, trotting on those parquet floors with their long toenails.
lee
@Jerzy Russian: There was a bit in an interview that Biden was going to mortgage his home to help pay for his son’s cancer treatment. Obama loaned/gave him the money.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Damien: I’d guess it’s being run by volunteers, but that’s pure speculation. Though that shot at the NYT suggests someone official in communications office weighed in….
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: Not a Buckeye, myself, but I just saw this:
Tim Ryan blundered on to the national stage with a lot of empty blatherskyte about Pelosi being too old and Dems having forgotten “the working class”– the party of increasing the minimum wage, expanding health insurance and guaranteeing early child care and education– but he seems to have learned his lesson.
sab
@SiubhanDuinne: I don’t know about the Dems, but the aspiring Republicans are horrifying. Gym Jordan. Jane Timken (whose husband packed up his steel factory in Canton Ohio and sent it to China) Josh Mandel (Sherrod Brown beat).
I hope to God Tim Ryan doesn’t go for it. He is much improved lately but he tends to tack to the center when threatened. Until lately pro-gun and anti-abortion.
Mousebumples
@Jerzy Russian: what i was reading on Twitter last night indicated that it was Beau’s watch. So extra terrible to attempt to critique Biden for wearing his late son’s watch, as a rememberance, to his Inauguration. *sigh
TaMara (HFG)
@Damien: I believe his granddaughter runs it and it is as official as it can be without coming from the WH – I could not get a definitive answer when I was searching.
sab
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Josh Barro likes centrist Dems. Tim Ryan is my congressman. I think he is very bright. I have heard him on town hall conference calls and he has strong policy chops. I have come around to liking him quite a lot.
But Ryan has tons of baggage. Challenged Pelosi, 94% NRA rating, anti-abortion until very recently. Basically he makes Democratic women’s hair stand on end.
ETA He does have the support of a lot of blacks in his district. His view of the working class isn’t white working class, it’s everybody.
ETA I think if he did win he’d be gone at the next election.
Miss Bianca
I like this new timeline, where Major, Champ and Cat Who Remains to be Named rule the Twitter roost, rather than T****.
trollhattan
When do we see the first “You know who else loved German shepherds” concern-troll? I vote Jonah Goldberg.
Dog’s not properly dressed without a wrist[?]watch. Everybody knows that.
TaMara (HFG)
This was on point:
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG): That was great!
TaMara (HFG)
@TaMara (HFG): It sure seems like it’s official.
trollhattan
@TaMara (HFG):
OMG, a Jackal is on air @ CNN. How else do you explain that?
frosty
@sab: LOL! We had three GS dogs over the years but never once thought of calling them German Shedders. Too true!
Also the claws. Our flooring is 100 yr old Southern Pine fortunately the floor guy could do a good job of sanding and refinishing it.
TomatoQueen
WH has a lot of marble-y floors, and a whole lot of deep red carpet, perfect for a First Cat. Tho’ they should get a paragon like Merlin, who is perfectly shiny, does not shed (seriously I mean it), and has never shown signs of even thinking about having a hairball (no hairballs. None.) No, Merlin, you’re staying here.
Lyrebird
@Jerzy Russian: Normally I avoid saying, “oh, snap!” bc I think from me it’d be cultural appropriation. But I think whoever came up with the Rolex dog and cat tweets could say it! LOVE IT.
Kattails
@SiubhanDuinne: Rob Portman citing “partisan gridlock”. Fuck him.
I like the little shade thrown in the kitty post about kudos for the kudos for keen observational skills “during an event with high security risk status, after a failed coup d’etat.”
trollhattan
@frosty:
We were a serial Dalmatian family until making a transition to a GSP (German shorthaired pointer) and something I have noticed is the GSP claws are placed higher on the paw, meaning they don’t scrape on the floor until they’re rather long. When he’s been trimmed he’s utterly silent (for better or worse).
Something I would have never thought of as a breed difference. The Dallys are REALLY hard on floors.
Woodrow/asim
As I recall, when Obama chose him as VP Biden was the Senator with the lowest Net Worth. It was Obama with the lowest, prior to book sales — and on the flip side, post-Presidency, Obama offered to loan Biden money to help with bills around Beau’s family, if that gives you any indication.
So, yeah, Biden is the worse corporate sellout, ever.
JoyceH
“German Shepherds as problem shedders? Oh, you sweet children…” said the Samoyed owner.
VOR
@dmsilev: And yet Trump, born into wealth, was the “blue-collar billionaire”. Clearly a man of the people from his golden penthouse in an NYC skyscraper
And doggies are good.
BruceFromOhio
That is so cold it’s got frost on it.
BruceFromOhio
@SiubhanDuinne: Richard Cordray comes to mind.
The buckeye bench is WOEFULLY bare.
geg6
@dmsilev:
That’s ridiculous. My John has a Rolex given to him by his former employer, a management consulting company, when he retired. We are certainly not wealthy and I’m guessing his is an entry level model, too.
Bex
@Jerzy Russian: It was a coup d’cat, but the good mews is it was just about a choice of treats. New claws was added re proper refilling of the bowl.
sab
@frosty: I stole it from Dog Fancier Magazine, of all places. I could fill a 30 gallon trash bag at one brushing of one dog. The squirrels loved it.
trollhattan
@JoyceH:
Samoyed-owning friends had a springtime ritual where they’d take her out front during the annual shedding of the winter coat (in San Jose, what can I say) and brush her. Actual balls of Sammy’s coat would roll down the block. Quite a sight.
My kid was lobbying hard for a husky and keeping the coat thing in mind (as well as the endless vocalizations) I distracted her onto GSPs. “Shorthaired” is literally in the name.
geg6
@trollhattan:
Amazingly, my sister’s Norwegian buhunds do not shed as much as her previous spitz did. They shed, but not giant balls of fur like the spitz.
jonas
@VOR: Trump, for all his inherited/ill-gotten wealth, was still a piece of tasteless, blustering, ignorant white trash at heart — a poor person’s idea of what a rich man should be. It’s what so endeared him to his base, and why he, in turn, was always so brittle, insecure, and desperate for attention.
texasdoc
@sab: That sounds like my chow/shepherd mix–buckets of fur when he blew his coat every spring!
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@TaMara (HFG): I love an “official” WH pets Twitter account, but have to say the twee “paw” puns are a bit tiresome. Once per tweet, sure, but that aspect of the posts way overdoes it for me. Of course, I’m a cat lady. Maybe that goofiness captures the way GSs think.
Anonymous At Work
Color me impressed. Biden’s social media team knows its shit. Social media postings as pets to keep Villagers entertained and light-hearted moments for Biden’s followers to keep the vacuum filled. Professionalism at its best (21st century edition).
jackmac
Bought the book “Champ and Major — First Dogs” today and it’s flat out delightful. With a kid-friendly story line and wonderful colorful illustrations, it’s also already reportedly a best seller. Yet another payoff of electing a human being (and dog lover) to the nation’s highest office!
artem1s
@SiubhanDuinne:
is he running for governor?
I just hope the stans don’t try to foist Nina Turner on us. :P