“They have a great deal of courage and willingness to work,” Judy Hagen, the president of the American Belgian Malinois Club, said in an interview. “They’re very intelligent and they’re easily trained.”
Belgians, she said, can cost anywhere from $1,500 for a show dog puppy to over $30,000 for a fully-trained protection dog.
The identity of the dog has become the subject of rampant curiosity since Mr. Trump used glowing terms to describe the animal’s heroics on Sunday. In the same news conference, Mr. Trump used disparaging terms to describe Mr. al-Baghdadi’s death — “He died like a dog” — even as he praised the animal for pursuing the ISIS leader.
“Our ‘K-9,’ as they call it,” Mr. Trump said, “I call it a dog. A beautiful dog — a talented dog — was injured and brought back.”
Mr. Trump’s apparently complex relationship with dogs has become a matter of curiosity in recent years. Both critics and supporters have noted that he is among the few modern presidents who have not had a dog in the White House.
Earlier this year during a rally in El Paso, Mr. Trump mused that his associates had encouraged him to get a dog because it would be a political asset.
“You do love your dogs, don’t you?” Mr. Trump told the crowd. “I wouldn’t mind having one, honestly, but I don’t have any time. How would I look walking a dog on the White House lawn?”
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