President and their pets

Sunday, August 24, 2008

George W. Bush: Spot (Springer Spaniel); Barney (Scottish Terrier); India and Ernie (cats); Miss Beazley (Scottish Terrier puppy).

Bill Clinton: Socks (cat); Buddy (chocolate Labrador Retriever).

George H. W. Bush: Millie (Springer Spaniel); Ranger ( Springer Spaniel).

Ronald Reagan: Rex (Cavalier King Charles Spaniel);

Lucky (Bouvier des Flandres).

Jimmy Carter: Grits (dog); Misty Malarky Ying Yang (Siamese cat).

Gerald Ford: Liberty( Golden Retriever); Shan (Siamese cat).

Richard Nixon: Checkers (Cocker Spaniel); Vicky (French Poodle); Pasha (Yorkshire Terrier); King Timahoe (Irish Setter); fish.

Lyndon Johnson: Him, Her, Kim, Freckles and J Edgar (Beagles); Blanco (Collie), Yuki (mixed breed dog)

hamsters, lovebirds.

John F. Kennedy: Tom Kitten (cat); Robin (canary) Zsa Zsa (rabbit); Sardar (horse); Macaroni, Tex and Leprechaun (ponies); Bluebell and Marybelle (parakeets) Debbie and Billie (hamsters); Charlie (Welsh Terrier); Pushinka ( mixed breed dog); Shannon (Irish Cocker Spaniel) Wolf ( Irish Wolfhound); Clipper (German Shepherd); Blackie, Butterfly, Streaker and White Tips (dogs).

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Heidi (Weimaraner); Art and George (English Setters); Skunkie/Spunky (Scottish Terrier); Gabby (parakeet).

Harry S Truman: Feller (Cocker Spaniel); Mike (Irish Setter).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fala/Informer (Scottish Terrier); Meggie (Scottish terrier); Major (German Shepherd); Winks (Llewellyn setter); Tiny (English sheepdog); President (Great Dane); Blaze, (mastiff); four more dogs.

Herbert Hoover: Glen (Scotch Collie); Yukon (Malamute)

Patrick (Irish Wolfhound); Eaglehurst Gillette (setter);

Weejie (Elkhound); Big Ben and Sonnie (Fox Terriers);

King Tut (Belgian Shepherd); Pat (opossum); two alligators.

Calvin Coolidge: Peter Pan (Wirehaired Fox Terrier); Paul Pry/Laddie Buck (Airedale); Diana of Wildwood/Calamity Jane (white Collie); Beans (Boston Bulldog); King Cole (shepherd); Palo (English Setter); Rob Roy/Oshkosh and Prudence Prim (white Collies) Ruby Rough (brown and white Collie) Bessie (Collie); Blackberry (black Chow); Tiny Tim/Terrible Tim (red Chow); Nip, Tuck and Snowflake (canaries); Bounder, Tiger/Tige, and Blacky (cats);

Rebecca and Horace (raccoons); Smokey (bobcat); Old Bill (thrush); Enoch, a goose; Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau the lion cubs; mockingbird; black bear; an antelope; wallaby; pygmy hippo; wombat; rabbits; duikir deer; ducklings; fish.

Warren Harding: Laddie Boy (Airedale); Old Boy (English Bulldog); Pete (squirrel); canaries.

Woodrow Wilson: Old Ike (ram); sheep; chickens; cats

William Taft: Pauline Wayne (cow).

Theodore Roosevelt: Sailor Boy (Chesapeake Bay Retriever); Manchu (Pekingese); Skip (Rat Terrier); Jack (terrier);

Pete (Bull Terrier); Tom Quartz and Slippers (cats); Josiah (badger); Algonquin (calico pony); Eli Yale (macaw); Jonathan (piebald rat); Emily Spinach (garter snake); Bleistein, Renown, Roswell, Rusty, Jocko, Root, Grey, Dawn, Wyoming, and Yangenka (among 12 horses);

Dewey Senior, Dewey Junior, Bob Evans, Bishop Doan; and Father O’Grady (guinea pigs); five bears, other snakes, two kangaroo rats, lizards, roosters; an owl; flying squirrel; a raccoon; a coyote; a lion; a hyena; a zebra.

William McKinley: Mexican Yellow Parrot; Angora cat and kittens.

Benjamin Harrison: Dash (dog); Whiskers (goat); an opossum; more dogs.

Grover Cleveland: Japanese Poodle; canaries; a mockingbird.

Chester Alan Arthur: no pets.

James Garfield: Kit (horse); Veto (dog); fish.

Rutherford B. Hayes: Siam (Siamese cat); Grim, (greyhound); Duke (English mastiff); Hector (Newfoundland); Dot (terrier); canaries; cows; horses; goats; other dogs.

Ulysses S. Grant Faithful (Newfoundland); Jeff Davis, Julia, Jennie, Mary, Butcher Boy, Cincinnatus, Egypt and St. Louis (horses); Reb and Billy Button (ponies); pigs, dogs, roosters; a parrot.

Andrew Johnson: white mice.

Abraham Lincoln: Jack (turkey); Nanny and Nanko: (goats).

ponies; cats; dogs; pigs; a white rabbit.

James Buchanan: Lara (Newfoundland); eagle; elephant.

Franklin Pierce: no pets.

Millard Fillmore: no pets.

Zachary Taylor: Old Whitey (horse).

James Knox Polk: a horse.

John Tyler: Le Beau (Greyhound); The General (horse).

William Henry Harrison: a goat and a cow.

Martin Van Buren: two tiger cubs.

Andrew Jackson: Truxton, Sam Patches, Emily, Lady Nashville and Bolivia (horses) Pol (parrot); ponies.

John Quincy Adams: alligators.

James Monroe: a black spaniel; sheepdogs.

James Madison: Macaw (parrot); sheep.

Thomas Jefferson: a mockingbird; two grizzly bear cubs.

John Adams: horses.

George Washington: Samson, Steady, Leonidas, Traveller, Magnolia, Nelson, Rozinante and Blueskin (horses);

Mopsey, Taster, Cloe, Tipsy, Tipler, Forester, Captain, Lady Rover, Vulcan, Sweetlips and Searcher (among the 18 hounds); parrot.

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