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Friday, September 07, 2012

Weird Presidential pets

By Jack Brummet, Fauna Editor/Presidential History Editor

When Lewis and Clark were exploring the West, they sent two young bear cubs back East to President Tom Jefferson. He kept the bears in a cage on the White House lawn and sometimes went on walks with them.

President Calvin Coolidge owned a raccoon, a bobcat, a donkey, a wallaby, a pygmy hippo, a small antelope, and a black bear.

John Quincy Adams kept an alligator.

President Harry S. Truman had a boa constrictor for a pet.

James Buchanan kept an elephant at The White House.

Not surprisingly, President Teddy Roosevelt had a zebra (although I'm surprised he didn't own a lion, hippo, or elephant, since he enjoyed plugging them so much).

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