WASHINGTON – If you haven’t seen First Dog Bo lately, he is out and about with President Barack Obama.

Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, in a dig aimed at GOP hopeful Mitt Romney, tweeted from his personal account, “How loving owners transport their dogs,” along with a photo.

In the 1980s, Romney drove to Canada with his Irish setter Seamus in a crate. The crate was tied to the roof of his car.

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