The first family dog saga is almost over.

Michelle Obama, who is on the cover of People again, told the magazine that her daughters Sasha and Malia will get their promised pooch in April, after spring break, and they are looking for a Portuguese Water Dog to adopt from a shelter.

“Temperamentally they’re supposed to be pretty good,” Obama says in the issue hitting newsstands on Friday. “From the size perspective, they’re sort of middle of the road — it’s not small, but it’s not a huge dog. And the folks that we know who own them have raved about them. So that’s where we’re leaning.”

During the campaign, President Obama promised his girls the dog at the end — and it became a subject of much speculation and lobbying by advocates of various breeds. There was early talk that the Obamas would get a labradoodle.

The first couple and their daughters have been going back and forth on possible names, and Michelle Obama told People she nixed “Frank” or “Moose.”

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/02/white_house_dog.html