Buddy (dog)

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Buddy
President Bill Clinton and Buddy
Birth name	Budweiser
Species	Canis lupus familiaris
Breed	Labrador Retriever
Gender	Male
Born	In September, 1997 Maryland, United States
Died	2nd January, 2002 New York, United States
Nation from	American
Occupation	Pet
Known for	Being Owned by the US President 1993–2001
Predecessor	Millie
Successor	Barney
Owner	Bill Clinton
Appearance	Brown fur

Buddy "Budweiser" (1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever, was one of two pets owned by Bill Clinton while he was President of the United States. The Clintons' other pet was a cat named Socks. Clinton acquired Buddy as a puppy in 1997 from Caroline County, Maryland, and named him after his late uncle.

Socks didn't get along with the frisky Buddy, so the White House had to keep the two in separate quarters. Since this arrangement would be no longer possible in the Clintons' smaller home in New York, Socks was left under the care of Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie. Buddy, however, suffered the same fate as Clinton's previous dog, a cocker spaniel named Zeke, when he was killed by a car while running loose near the Clinton home in Chappaqua, New York, on January 2, 2002.

Clinton later acquired a second Labrador, Seamus.

[edit] In pop culture

Buddy is a central character in Rick Cleveland's 2005 one-man show My Buddy Bill,^[1] relating the writer's fictional friendship with Bill Clinton, which began when both men discovered their common interest for dogs

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of U.S. Presidential pets

Honorary titles
Preceded by Millie (George H. W. Bush's Springer Spaniel)	US White House pet dog January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001	Succeeded by Barney (George W. Bush's Scottish Terrier)