Presidential Dogs at the Lincoln Memorial

We never expected to see sculptures of president’s pooches at the Lincoln Memorial. But we did. We took a ride in to DC for the weekly photo challenge. Because it was Presidents’ Day it was unusually busy for a weekday. But being a holiday there were a lot of visitors, children and school groups milling about. It was also a simply beautiful sunny day. Afterwards I found out later that Jinx - a dog food company - rolled out the one day exhibit at the Lincoln Memorial as a reminder of “how much we depend our pets for emotional support.” So we checked out Fido Lincoln, Bo Obama, and Pushinka Kennedy. I wondered how they decided which dogs to highlight. The sculptures were getting a lot of attention. So today when we went back in to town for a morning walk we stopped by the same spot and the dogs had disappeared. It was indeed a one day exhibit. I thought there was something tacky about having these “sculptures” in front of such an historical memorial. It was all in good fun and I’m glad we had the opportunity to see them.