Md. first family welcome a new member: Gov. Moore’s kids get a puppy – WTOP News

Maryland’s new governor is making good on his promise to his youngsters: They’re getting a pet.

Gov. Wes Moore and his household are taking dwelling a 5-month outdated rescue pet “Tucker” from the Maryland SPCA on Friday evening.

The primary household obtained to know Tucker Thursday night when an SPCA workers member took the pup to fulfill with them for the primary time.

“And we’re glad to report that they fell in love with one another,” James Peirce, govt director of the Maryland SPCA, advised WTOP. “It’s often fairly simple to inform … wiggly butts, glad licks. This was a kind of circumstances the place it was very simple to inform that they fell in love with one another fairly shortly.”

Tucker (whose center title is “Balty,” a nod to the SPCA headquarters’ metropolis and Moore’s personal Baltimore roots) is a Shih Tzu-poodle combine. He’s been neutered and undergone a full medical and conduct examination.

As with most shelter animals, the SPCA doesn’t have a lot of a again story. However Peirce stated, “He’s a candy, glad, wiggly, affectionate boy.”

Moore advised WTOP in December that he had promised his youngsters, Mia and James, after the 2022 gubernatorial election — win, lose or draw — that they might get a pet.

However a part of the deal is that they should do a lot of the take care of the pup, he stated.

The Maryland SPCA adopts out about 3,000 animals a 12 months, with about one-third of them being canines.

The group additionally tries to assist people who find themselves struggling financially preserve their pets with out having to give up them, providing pet meals pantries and vaccine clinics.