More Bo kin?

We posted before about the dad of Bo, the new First Dog. Now, just as we predicted, another relative has surfaced, this one a half sister named Ruby in Minnesota. Reporter Laurie Swenson of the Bemidji Pioneer reported on the find below.

A Bemidji (MN) family has a White House canine connection. Ruby, a 2-year-old Portuguese water dog owned by Julie Quanrud and her husband, Ric Meixell, is the half-sister of President Barack Obama's new family dog, Bo.

"I was suspicious because the muzzle is the same," Quanrud said, adding that she became even more suspicious when she saw the Obama family's dog had the exact same white markings as Julius, a full sibling of ruby's. After discovering the Ruby and Bo have the same father -- Valkyrie's Dr. Watson Is Here -- Quanrud received about 20 e-mails Tuesday afternoon from fellow members of the Portuguese Water Dog Club of America (Twin Cities) who saw reports of the presidential pooch and knew Ruby's lineage.

"To think that this dog is lying on the carpet in the White House right now, and we're sitting her with his sister, is pretty wild," Quanrud said.

Photo: Laurie Swenson/Pioneer