Bo Obama has been grabbing headlines lately upstaging the First Lady at a visit to a children's hospital, frolicking in the first snow for photographers, and high-fiving Oprah.
But the First Dog will maintain a lower profile over the next 10 days, staying behind in Washington D.C. as the Obama family spends the winter holidays in Hawaii.
"Bo will be boarded [at an undisclosed location] until the family returns in early January," reports the Washington Post.
Hawaii, which is a rabies-free state, has strict quarantine laws for animals entering their territory. It may be the reason Bo didn't get to go on the trip.
"Bo would have faced two options if he had come — 120 days in quarantine in the Agriculture Department's Halawa facility, or two rounds of veterinarian-monitored rabies vaccinations and a blood test followed by a 120-day waiting period on the Mainland," states the Honolulu Advertiser. The town of Kailua, where the Obama family is vacationing, also has contradictory leash laws, according to the Honolulu Advertiser, requiring dogs to be leashed on the beach, but allowing them swim free of leashes when in the ocean.
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