The new dog adopted by Biden – and other political domestic animals

Former US Vice President Joe Biden has adopted a dog from a shelter located in the state of Delaware.

The Bidens favored the German major and set up a permanent home for him, the Delaware Humane Association announced.

The association has published photos of adoption on social media.

Mr. Biden had already adopted a dog – in 2008, he had adopted a puppy called Champ after his wife Jill had promised him a dog if he and Barack Obama were elected.

Mr. Biden is one of many politicians attached to animals.

Mr. Obama has two dogs, Bo and Sunny, who are Portuguese water dogs. In 2016, police arrested a man suspected of plotting to kidnap one of them.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has also adopted a dog, Tory, in an animal sanctuary.

The four-year-old black mongrel was the first "first dog" to come to a shelter and joined the other two of the president's pets, a dog named Maru and an old cat named Jjing-jjing, d & # First adopted by Mr. Moon's daughter.

Mr. Moon was commended for adopting a refuge dog. His predecessor, Park Geun-hye, was accused of having abandoned his nine Jindo dogs when she left the presidential palace.

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French President Emmanuel Macron carries a black Labrador-Griffon cross, Nemo, who found glory last year when he was captured on video while he was urinating on a chimney in the palace. l & # 39; Elysee.

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He was just the last French presidential dog to cause trouble for his master.

Nicolas Sarkozy's dogs allegedly damaged precious furniture in the palace. Sumo, the white miniature Maltese of Jacques Chirac, would have become dissatisfied with having to leave the Elysee with his large garden and began to attack Mr. Chirac.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is another dog lover. He received gifts from dogs from Japan and Turkmenistan.

In 2016, however, he refused a second Akita woman offered by Japan as a companion for the first.

He also denied allowing his black Labrador Connie to enter the room during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2007, while he knew she was fearing the dogs a lot.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had her first cat, Paddles, who died last November.

Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen has a well-documented love of felines and has two adopted cats, Think Think (a gray tabby after a typhoon) and Ah Tsai (a farm cat and a gift in the presidential election) .

Meanwhile in the Netherlands last year, it was the politicians themselves who became the pets – voters were able to keep them as virtual pets before the general elections.