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Barack Obama met a SPORTS PUPPY while in Alaska

This little guy’s gonna be in the Iditarod someday! (The dog, not Barack.)

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Barack Obama has been in Alaska this week and became the first sitting president to visit a site north of the Arctic Circle. While in Kotzebue, a town of 3,000 way deep in the northwest of the state, Obama met musher John Baker, who won the 2011 Iditarod. And Baker let Obama cuddle one of his HUSKY PUPPIES HUSKY PUPPY OMG IT’S A HUSKY PUPPY

Got to meet Kotzebue's own Iditarod champion John Baker and Feather, one his puppies. -bo

A photo posted by The White House (@whitehouse) on

DAWWWWWW LOOK AT THAT HUSKY PUP LOOK AT HOW SMALL AND SNUGGLY IT IS DAW

DAW LITTLE PUP! YOU DON’T KNOW IT YET BUT SOME DAY YOU’RE GONNA BE BIG AND YOU’RE GONNA RUN THROUGH THE SNOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS ALASKA!

AND WHEN YOU GET DONE YOU’RE GOING TO GET A BUNCH OF GOOD MEAT AS A REWARD FOR THE GOOD RUNNING YOU DID!

AND YOU TOO, FOREGROUND PUPPY!

Good dogs.

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