When Joe and Jill Biden move into the White House next year, they will bring their two German Shephards, Champ and Major.

Stephanie Gomez/Delaware Humane Association, via Associated Press

The Bidens adopted Major from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018. They got Champ from a breeder in 2008. Major Biden is not the first shelter dog living in the White House. Lyndon Johnson had a mutt named Yuki. Johnson’s daughter Luci found Yuki at a Texas gas station. Yuki was known as the “Singing Dog.”

Photo courtesy of the Presidential Pet Museum

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