When you make a promise to one of your children, you had better deliver. During the lengthy 2008 Presidential campaign, President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama promised their two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, that win or lose they would get a new puppy.

_Last week, after the election, one of the first press stories about the new First Family focused on the puppy promise and when the new addition to the family would be residing in the White House. One of the side stories that came out of the reporting was that one of the Obama children is allergic to dogs.

_In a widely reported quotation, President-elect Obama summed up the family