A Look At The U.S. Secret Service Dogs That Guard The White House

Photo: Jordan, a member of the Secret Service’s K-9 unit, and a colleague, Hurricane, stopped a White House intruder Wednesday night. Credit U.S. Secret Service

K-9 ‘Agents’ Lift Spirits Of The Secret Service With Heroics At The White House -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — Jordan took a kick to his snout. Hurricane was slammed to the ground and repeatedly punched. Both were rushed to a veterinarian for treatment.

But by stopping a fence jumper from getting into the White House on Wednesday night, the two members of the Secret Service’s K-9 unit accomplished something that humans in the agency have been hard-pressed to do recently: They performed their duties flawlessly and, at least for a day, lifted the morale of a Secret Service that had been rocked by a series of embarrassing incidents.

What the dogs, both Belgian Malinois, did was stop a man who had managed to get over the fence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday. The dogs, which can run 25 miles per hour and have a bite that applies hundreds of pounds of pressure per square inch, knocked the man to the ground, and bit him. As the man tried to fend the dogs off, officers moved in and arrested him.
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The veterinarian determined that the dogs had sustained only minor injuries.

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My Comment: For some reason I have this image in my head of a U.S. Secret Service agent being specifically assigned and made responsible for picking up the doggy-poo on the White House lawn. Don't laugh .... that is exactly what I did on my lawn this morning ... courtesy of my GF's Rottweiler. It is a thankless job .... but someone has to do it.