“This is Tim Walz tweeting about his dog Scout. Only problem is that these are two completely different dogs,” Dustin Grage, a columnist at the right-wing website Town Hall, wrote on X ...

Meet America's canine campaigners: Atlas, who belongs to J.D. Vance and Scout, who is owned by Tim Walz. Here's what you want to know about them.

He didn’t claim both dogs are Scout. In an October 2022 video Walz posted to his Instagram account, he is seen petting the dog in the photo, along with Scout.