The Week contest: First dog
This week’s question: President Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, recently bit another Secret Service agent at the White House — the dog’s 11th biting incident. In seven words or fewer, please come up with an advertising slogan for an animal training school that specializes in unruly presidential pets.
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THE WINNER: “This Isn’t Congress: You Will Be Obeyed!”
Joe Scott, Indianapolis, Indiana
SECOND PLACE: “Heel to the Chief”
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
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THIRD PLACE: “Don’t Impeach Him! We Can Teach Him.”
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Build Bark Better”
Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Virginia
“Stop the Malarkey, Sparky!”
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
“Make America Crate Again”
Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut
“Speak Softly and Learn a New Trick”
Guy Rusiski, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Not on His Presidency’s Secret Service”
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
“Guidance for Leaders of the Flea World”
John Keefe, Mount Vernon, Washington
“Pets Won’t Need to Beg Your Pardon”
John Sullivan, West Babylon, New York
“Teaching Dogs the Behavioral Skills That Congress Lacks”
John Bregoli, Weymouth, Massachusetts
“Sit. Stay. Re-elect.”
Carol Joseph, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
‘We’ll Make Sure They’re White House-broken”
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
“We Tame Litters of the Free World”
Tom Smith, Rochester, New York
“We Engage in Civil Obedience”
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
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