PWB Peeps Open Thread: President's Day Pets – Daily Kos
John Quincy Adams raised silkworms, and his wife spun the silk. The tale of keeping an alligator in the East Room is probably apocryphal.
Martin van Buren may or may not have received two lions or two tiger cubs from the emperor of Morocco. The gift did include two horses.
James Buchanan had dogs and an eagle. The King of Siam tried to send him two elephants, but they didn’t arrive until Lincoln was president, and were sent to the Philadelphia Zoo.
Lincoln had goats, dogs, cats, horses, a rabbit, a pig, and a turkey which Tad refused to allow to be Christmas dinner. Lincoln once said that his cat Dixie was smarter than his whole Cabinet.
Theodore Roosevelt had guinea pigs, a horse, several dogs, ponies, a hen, a lizard, a hyacinth macaw, a garter snake, a small black bear, a piebald rat, a badger, a pig, a rabbit, cats, a laughing hyena, a barn owl, a rooster, and a lion!
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