News Every Day | 09 October 2015, 12:13 Bo Obama: A look back at the first dog's fetching life 65 Politico First dog Bo climbs the stairs of Air Force One in August 2010 for a flight to Chicago with President Barack Obama. | AP Photo Bo arrives at the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House in June 2010. | AFP/Getty The official portrait of the Obama family dog "Bo," a Portuguese water dog, on the South Lawn of the White House on May 20, 2009. | Getty President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia and Sasha and dog Bo visit Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse in Bar Harbor, Maine, Saturday, July 17, 2010. | AP Photo Bo and his sister, Sunny, board a U.S. Marine Osprey helicopter on their way to Martha's Vineyard in August 2015. | AFP/Getty A student's drawing of the first family and their dog Bo hangs on the wall of Martin Luther King Middle School in Dakar, Senegal, in 2013. The first photograph of Bo released by the White House, at 6 months old, was seen by millions. The adorable black Portuguese water dog with white paws was a gift from Sen. Ted Kennedy and his wife to the Obama girls. | Getty Obama plays football with Bo on the South Lawn of the White House in May 2009. | Getty Alan Fitts, trip director for first lady Michelle Obama, kicks a soccer ball with Bo on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. | AP Photo The Obamas take a walk with Bo in April 2009, shortly after he joined the first family. | AFP/Getty Bo sniffs a microphone during his introduction to the White House press corps on the South Lawn of the White House. | Getty Bo frolics in the snow outside of the West Wing in December 2009 during a blizzard. | AFP/Getty President Barack Obama runs down a corridor with the family's new dog. | Getty President Barack Obama shops for Christmas presents with his dog Bo at Petsmart on December 21, 2011 in Alexandria, Virginia. | Getty President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama read to children as their dog Bo tries to get attention during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 25, 2011. | Getty President Barack Obama pets his dog Bo outside the Oval Office of the White House March 15, 2012. | Getty The first family receive the White House Christmas tree at the White House in Washington on November 25, 2011. | AFP/Getty The first lady reads "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" to children as Bo sits nearby during a visit to the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, in December 2009. | AFP/Getty Journalists take photos of first dog Bo while at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. | AP Photo Malia plays with Bo as she waits for the Marine One presidential helicopter to land on the South Lawn of the White House upon her father's return to the White House in Washington on September 15, 2009. | AFP/Getty First lady Michelle Obama, with first dog Bo, reads "The Night Before Christmas," next to Jordyn Akuoko, 5, during an annual event at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) | AP Photo Bo peers into the Oval Office from the Colonnade, on October 26, 2010 in Washington, D.C. | Getty Bo waits to board the the Air Force One in Cape Cod on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on August 30, 2009. | AFP/Getty