United States presidential pets#Joe Biden

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The first White House dog to receive regular newspaper coverage was Warren G. Harding's dog Laddie Boy.{{Cite web|url=https://toledogazette.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/famous-and-forgotten-toledos-laddie-boy-the-first-presidential-pet/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814043256/http://toledogazette.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/famous-and-forgotten-toledos-laddie-boy-the-first-presidential-pet/|url-status=dead|title=Famous and Forgotten, Toledo's Laddie Boy, The First Presidential Pet|date=August 6, 2012|archive-date=August 14, 2012}}

Pets also featured in presidential elections. Herbert Hoover got a "Belgian Police Dog" (Belgian Malinois), King Tut, during his campaign and pictures of him with his new dog were sent all across the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt was known for having many pets in the White House. He had six children who owned pets including snakes, dogs, cats, a badger, birds, and guinea pigs.{{cite web|date=April 1, 2014|title=Presidential Pets|url=https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/presidential-pets|access-date=October 19, 2021|website=History|language=en|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019215917/https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/presidential-pets|url-status=live}}

In 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for his fourth term when rumors surfaced that his Scottish Terrier, Fala, had accidentally been left behind when visiting the Aleutian Islands. After allegedly sending back ships to rescue his dog, Roosevelt was ridiculed and accused of spending thousands of taxpayers' dollars to retrieve his dog. At a speech following this Roosevelt said, "You can criticize me, my wife and my family, but you can't criticize my little dog. He's Scottish and all these allegations about spending all this money have just made his little soul furious."{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/1944RadioNews |title=1944 Radio News, 1944-09-23 FDR Teamsters Union Address – Fala (27:45–30:08) |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=July 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313143419/https://archive.org/details/1944RadioNews |archive-date=March 13, 2016 |url-status=live }} What was later called the "Fala speech" reportedly helped secure reelection for Roosevelt.{{cite web|title=Fala, the dog who helped win a presidential election|url=https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/fala-the-dog-who-helped-win-a-presidential-election|website=National Constitution Center|access-date=November 17, 2017|language=en|date=September 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014606/https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/fala-the-dog-who-helped-win-a-presidential-election|archive-date=October 12, 2018|url-status=live}}

Richard Nixon was accused of hiding a secret slush fund during his candidacy for vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. He gave the televised "Checkers speech" named after his cocker spaniel, denying he had a slush fund but admitting, "there is one thing that I did get as a gift that I'm not going to give back."{{cite web |author = Anne Emig | work = K-State Perspective | url=http://www.k-state.edu/media/WEB/News/Webzine/0302/pastpets.html |title=Presidential pets of the past |publisher=K-state.edu |date=Summer 2004 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212174847/http://www.k-state.edu/media/WEB/News/Webzine/0302/pastpets.html |archive-date=December 12, 2012 }} The gift was a black-and-white cocker spaniel, Checkers, given to his daughters. Although there had been talk of Nixon being dropped from the ticket, following his speech he received an increase in support and Mamie Eisenhower reportedly recommended he stay because he was "such a warm person."DVM: The Newsmagazine of Veterinary Medicine; Oct2008, Vol. 39 Issue 10, p22-22, 2/3p{{title missing}}{{cite web |first=Ethan |last=Trex |date=November 6, 2008 |url=http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19928 |title=The Bizarre History of White House Pets |work=Mental Floss |access-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615095820/http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19928 |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |url-status=live }}

President Lyndon B. Johnson caused controversy when he was photographed lifting his beagles, named Him and Her, by their ears. Some did not understand the controversy; former president Harry S. Truman said, "What the hell are the critics complaining about; that's how you handle hounds." Him died after he was run over by the presidential limousine.{{Cite web |last=ghostsofdc |date=2012-08-17 |title=LBJ's Beagle Run Over and Killed in White House Driveway |url=https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/08/17/lbj-white-house-dog-killed/ |access-date=2023-01-21 |website=Ghosts of DC |language=en-US |archive-date=January 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121220340/https://ghostsofdc.org/2012/08/17/lbj-white-house-dog-killed/ |url-status=live }}

Bill Clinton moved into the White House with Socks, a tuxedo cat, who in 1991 was reported to have jumped into the arms of Chelsea Clinton after piano lessons while the Clintons were living in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was later joined in 1997 by Buddy, a Labrador Retriever, during Clinton's second term.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/04/nyregion/buddy-socks-s-nemesis-is-dead.html|title=Buddy, Socks's Nemesis, Is Dead|author=Archibold, Randal C.|work=The New York Times|date=January 4, 2002|url-access=subscription|access-date=September 27, 2020|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107155612/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/04/nyregion/buddy-socks-s-nemesis-is-dead.html|url-status=live}} The two pets reportedly did not get along, with Clinton later saying "I did better with the Palestinians and the Israelis than I've done with Socks and Buddy" while Hillary Clinton said Socks "despised" Buddy at first sight.{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/12/sunny-obama-knocks-down-girl-video|title=Sunny Obama and History's Top 10 Most Poorly Behaved White House Pets|author=Weiner, Juli|publisher=Vanity Fair|date=December 5, 2013|access-date=September 27, 2020|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001115134/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/12/sunny-obama-knocks-down-girl-video|url-status=live}} The two were, however, the subject of a book, Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets written by then First Lady Hillary Clinton and appeared as cartoons in the kids' section of the first White House website.{{cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2010/1115/5-children-s-books-by-US-politicians/Dear-Socks-Dear-Buddy-Kids-Letters-to-the-First-Pets-by-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton|author=Dunne, Nora|publisher=Christian Science Monitor|title=5 children's books by US politicians|date=November 15, 2010|access-date=September 27, 2020|archive-date=August 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819014342/https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2010/1115/5-children-s-books-by-US-politicians/Dear-Socks-Dear-Buddy-Kids-Letters-to-the-First-Pets-by-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton|url-status=live}}

While George W. Bush was president, he had three dogs and a cat at the White House.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/presidential-pets/5/|author=Waslsh, Susan|publisher=CBS News|title=Presidential Pets|date=August 4, 2010|access-date=September 27, 2020}} Among the canines was Spot Fetcher, an English Springer Spaniel and the offspring of George H. W. Bush's dog, Millie.{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/1999/07/01/white-house-dynasty-its-just-a-matter-of-pet-igree/|title=White House Dynasty? It's Just a Matter of Pet-Igree|author=Orin, Deborah|publisher=New York Post|date=July 1, 1999|access-date=September 27, 2020}} This made Spotty the first animal to live in the White House under two different administrations, having been born there in 1989 and passed away there in 2004.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/us/bushes-mourn-death-of-their-dog-spot.html |agency=Associated Press |title=Bushes Mourn Death of Their Dog Spot |date=February 22, 2004 |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 27, 2020 |work=The New York Times |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117010137/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/us/bushes-mourn-death-of-their-dog-spot.html |url-status=live }}

Barack and Michelle Obama were without pets prior to the 2008 election, but promised their daughters they could get a dog when the family moved into the White House.{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/gallery/2015/10/bo-obama-birthday-photo-gallery-002120?slide=1|author=D'Abruzzo, Diana|title=Bo Obama turns 7! A look inside the first dog's fetching life|publisher=Politico|date=October 9, 2015|access-date=September 28, 2020}} They selected Bo, a Portuguese Water Dog, partly due to Malia Obama's allergies and the need for a hypoallergenic pet.{{cite web |first=Johanna |last=Neuman |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/dog-for-obamas.html |title=New first dog: The Obamas choose a Portuguese water dog |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 25, 2009 |access-date=January 20, 2015 |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411005754/https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/dog-for-obamas.html |url-status=live }} The puppy was a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy{{Cite news|author=Roig-Franzia, Manuel|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102484_2.html?sid=ST2009041202878|title=The First Puppy Makes a Big Splash|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 12, 2009|access-date=April 26, 2009|archive-date=October 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003013756/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102484_2.html?sid=ST2009041202878|url-status=live}} and was later joined by Sunny, a female of the same breed.{{cite web|last=Feldmann|first=Lindie|title=New little girl arrives at White House. Meet Sunny Obama. (+video)|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0820/New-little-girl-arrives-at-White-House.-Meet-Sunny-Obama.-video|publisher=Christian Science Monitor|date=August 20, 2013|access-date=September 28, 2020|archive-date=December 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219041430/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0820/New-little-girl-arrives-at-White-House.-Meet-Sunny-Obama.-video|url-status=live}} Bo was featured in the 2010 children's book Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, written by President Obama with illustrations by Loren Long.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8138576/Barack-Obama-releases-childrens-book-Of-Thee-I-Sing.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8138576/Barack-Obama-releases-childrens-book-Of-Thee-I-Sing.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Barack Obama releases children's book Of Thee I Sing|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|author=Spillius, Alex|date=November 11, 2010|access-date=September 28, 2020}}{{cbignore}}

Joe and Jill Biden moved into the White House with two German Shepherds, Champ and Major.{{cite web|last=Mackelden|first=Amy|title=Joe Biden's Dogs Major and Champ Will Be the First Presidential Pups in the White House in Four Years|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a34680434/joe-biden-dogs/|publisher=Harper's Bazaar|date=January 19, 2021|access-date=February 16, 2021|archive-date=February 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217203807/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a34680434/joe-biden-dogs/|url-status=live}} Major was the first shelter dog in the White House, while Champ returned to Washington, having joined the Biden family during Joe Biden's tenure as vice-president.{{cite web|title=Another Great Thing About Biden's Win: There's Going to Be a Dog in the White House Again!|author=Sophie Vershbow|date=November 7, 2020|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/biden-dog-in-the-white-house|publisher=Vogue|access-date=November 7, 2020|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107165248/https://www.vogue.com/article/biden-dog-in-the-white-house|url-status=live}} The Bidens announced the death of 13-year-old Champ on June 19, 2021.{{cite web|date=June 19, 2021|title=Bidens announce death of 'first dog' Champ|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bidens-announce-death-first-dog-champ-2021-06-19/|access-date=June 20, 2021|website=Reuters|archive-date=June 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619231409/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bidens-announce-death-first-dog-champ-2021-06-19/|url-status=live}} In December 2021, the Bidens announced the arrival of a pedigreed German Shepherd puppy named Commander, gifted to them by Joe Biden's brother. Officials later told the press that Major had been rehomed to a quieter environment following a series of biting incidents. Commander also had to be rehomed after at least 25 biting incidents. https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/02/23/biden-dog-commander-biting-tracked/72701866007/ The Bidens had also promised they would get a cat, and they fulfilled that promise in January 2022 by adding a two-year-old gray tabby, Willow, to the family.{{cite news |last=Rogers |first=Kate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/us/politics/biden-cat-willow.html |title=Relax, America: Willow, the White House Cat, Has Arrived |work=The New York Times |date=January 28, 2022 |url-access=subscription |accessdate=January 28, 2022 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128103527/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/us/politics/biden-cat-willow.html |url-status=live }}

In addition to traditional pets, this list includes some animals normally considered livestock or working animals that have a close association with presidents or their families. Presidents have often been given exotic animals from foreign dignitaries; occasionally these are kept, but often they are promptly donated to a zoo.

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• Sweetlips,{{cite web|title=Do You Have a Dog in This Election? Pets Are Presidential|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/05/do-you-have-a-dog-in-this-election-pets-are-presidential|work=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=June 19, 2013|author=Pamela Redmond Satran|author-link1=Pamela Redmond Satran|date=November 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820133150/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/05/do-you-have-a-dog-in-this-election-pets-are-presidential|archive-date=August 20, 2013|url-status=live}} Scentwell and Vulcan{{cite web|url=http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/biography/washington-stories/solider-statesman-dog-lover-george-washingtons-pups/|title=Soldier, Statesman, Dog-Lover: George Washington's Pups|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon|access-date=August 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805015330/http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/biography/washington-stories/solider-statesman-dog-lover-george-washingtons-pups/|archive-date=August 5, 2017|url-status=live}} (among others) – American Foxhounds{{efn|Washington was an avid dog breeder; he called the breed that he was developing "Virginia Hounds"; which eventually became American Foxhounds{{cite web|title=American Foxhound History & Training/Temperament|url=https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/american-foxhound/detail/#history|website=American Kennel Club|access-date=August 27, 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305115627/http://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/american-foxhound/detail/#history|archive-date=March 5, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Dogs|url=http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/dogs/|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon|publisher=Mount Vernon Ladies' Association|access-date=February 1, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203005712/http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/dogs/|archive-date=February 3, 2018|url-status=live}}}}
• Drunkard, Taster, Tipler, and Tipsy – Black and Tan Coonhounds
• Royal Gift – Andalusian donkey,{{cite web|author1=Mary V. Thompson|title=Donkeys|url=http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/donkeys/|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon|publisher=Mount Vernon Ladies' Association|access-date=February 1, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203005657/http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/donkeys/|archive-date=February 3, 2018|url-status=live}} a gift from King Charles III of Spain{{cite web|author1=Mary Brigid Barrett|title=Presidential Menageries: Washington's Mules and Hounds|url=http://ourwhitehouse.org/presidential-menageries/|website=Our White House|publisher=The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance|access-date=August 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430190819/http://ourwhitehouse.org/presidential-menageries/|archive-date=April 30, 2017|url-status=live}}
• Nelson (1763–1790) and Blueskin{{cite web|url=http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/nelson-horse/|title=Nelson (Horse)|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon|access-date=November 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117002852/http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/nelson-horse|archive-date=November 17, 2015|url-status=live}} – horsesBreed unknown{{cite web|title=Spring 1999: Presidential Pets|url=http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/html/Spring99-2.html|work=Inside the White House|publisher=nara.gov|access-date=December 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231081559/http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/html/Spring99-2.html|archive-date=December 31, 2012|url-status=dead}} that were Washington's wartime mounts
• Snipe{{efn|Some sources reference the name "Polly"{{cite web|last1=Doering|first1=Laura|title=Presidents & Their Pet Parrots|url=https://lafeber.com/pet-birds/presidents-their-parrots/|website=Pet Birds by Lafeber Co.|publisher=Lafeber|access-date=January 25, 2018|date=February 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126070937/https://lafeber.com/pet-birds/presidents-their-parrots/|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}}} – parrotSpecies unknown said to have been owned by First Lady Martha Washington{{cite web|last=Wolf|first=Alissa|title=First Pets: A History of Critters in the White House|url=http://petshops.about.com/od/PetBusinessResources/p/First-Pets-In-The-White-House.htm|publisher=About.com|access-date=October 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113195936/http://petshops.about.com/od/PetBusinessResources/p/First-Pets-In-The-White-House.htm|archive-date=November 13, 2012|url-status=live}}
• Cornwallis{{Cite book|title = George Washington: An American Life|last = Calkhoven|first = Laurie|publisher = Sterling Publishing Company, Inc|year = 2007|isbn = 9781402735462|location = Edison, NJ|page = 91}} – greyhound named for General Cornwallis
• Samson, Steady, Leonidas, Traveller, and Magnolia{{cite web|url=http://presidentialpetmuseum.com/whitehousepets-4/|title=White House Pets (1789–1850) – Presidential Pet Museum|language=en-US|access-date=September 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920123411/http://presidentialpetmuseum.com/whitehousepets-4|archive-date=September 20, 2016|url-status=live}} – stallions

• Juno, Mark, and Satan – dogs
• Cleopatra and Caesar – horses

• Dick – mockingbird; Dick was the favorite from among at least four mockingbirds the president had while in office{{cite web|title=Mockingbirds|url=https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/mockingbirds|website=Thomas Jefferson's Monticello|publisher=Thomas Jefferson Foundation|access-date=January 25, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126071004/https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/mockingbirds|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Bergère and Grizzle – shepherd dogs from France, possibly Briards{{cite web|title=Dogs|url=https://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/dogs|website=Thomas Jefferson's Monticello|publisher=Thomas Jefferson Foundation|access-date=January 25, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126071016/https://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/dogs|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Two grizzly bear cubs,Name unknown a male and female pair given by Captain Zebulon Pike. Jefferson deemed them "too dangerous & troublesome for me to keep" and gave them to Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum{{cite web|title=Grizzly Bears|url=https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/grizzly-bears|website=Thomas Jefferson's Monticello|publisher=Thomas Jefferson Foundation|access-date=January 25, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126184934/https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/grizzly-bears|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Caractacus – horse named after Caratacus, a 1st-century British chieftain. The horse was the offspring of Jefferson's mare Allycroker and a Godolphin Arabian named Young Fearnought{{cite web|title=Caractacus|url=https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/caractacus|website=Thomas Jefferson's Monticello|publisher=Thomas Jefferson Foundation|language=en|access-date=January 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126070953/https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/caractacus|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Sheep – beginning in 1807, the president bred sheep from "four of the most remarkeable varieties{{efn|Including a "Bengal ewe" (Desi sheep) and "a ram and a ewe of the Barbary Broadtail breed"; see American Tunis}} [...] pro bono publico." By spring 1808, there were nearly 40 sheep grazing at the president's house. One notorious Shetland ram was said to have killed "a fine little boy."

"Jefferson sheep">{{cite web |title=Sheep |url=https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/sheep |website=monticello.org |publisher=Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia |access-date=17 June 2022}}

• Polly – a parrot that outlived both James and Dolley Madison
• Sheep – grazed on the White House lawn{{Cite book |last=Moberg |first=Julia |title=Presidential Pets The Weird, Wacky, Little, Big, Scary, Strange Animals That Have Lived in the White House |date=2012 |publisher=Imagine Publishing |location=Bournemouth, UK |isbn=978-1-9361-4079-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/presidentialpets0000mobe/mode/2up |access-date=2024-08-29 |via=Internet Archive text collection |url-access=limited}}

• A spaniel whose name is unknown belonged to Monroe's youngest daughter, Maria Hester Monroe{{cite web |title=Presidential Pets |url=https://academics.umw.edu/jamesmonroepapers/2022/09/02/presidential-pets/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902232332/https://academics.umw.edu/jamesmonroepapers/2022/09/02/presidential-pets/ |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |access-date= |website=Papers of James Monroe |date=September 2, 2022 |url-status=live }} who the family called "Buddy"
• Sheepdogs were provided by Marquis de Lafayette as working dogs on Monroe's farm.{{Cite web |title=Presidential Pets |url=https://academics.umw.edu/jamesmonroepapers/2022/09/02/presidential-pets/ |website=Papers of James Monroe |date=September 2, 2022 |access-date=September 2, 2022 |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902232332/https://academics.umw.edu/jamesmonroepapers/2022/09/02/presidential-pets/ |url-status=live }}

• SilkwormsNumber unknown{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2jlRq_0gOMC&pg=PA516 |title=The Handy Science Answer Book | publisher=Visible Ink Press | year=2011 | access-date=December 22, 2012|isbn=9781578593217 }} whose silk First Lady Louisa Adams spun.{{cite web |title=Louisa Adams Biography |url=http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=6 |website=www.firstladies.org |publisher=National First Ladies' Library |access-date=December 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220235928/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=6 |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|last1=Lang|first1=Heather|title=Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Animals at the White House|url=http://ourwhitehouse.org/lions-and-tigers-and-bear-oh-my-wild-animals-at-the-white-house/|website=Our White House|publisher=National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance|access-date=January 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921172401/http://ourwhitehouse.org/lions-and-tigers-and-bear-oh-my-wild-animals-at-the-white-house/|archive-date=September 21, 2016|url-status=live}}
• An alligator – Said to have belonged to Marquis de Lafayette and housed for two months in the East Room.{{efn|The East Room was still under repair following the 1814 burning of the White House by the British, and was primarily used for storage. During the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States, Lafayette acquired several tons of gifts (including the alligator) that was stored there,{{cite book |last1=Whitcomb |first1=John |last2=Whitcomb |first2=Claire |title=Real Life at the White House: Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence |date=2002 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=9780415939515 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1unoHtahSsC&pg=PA52 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |title=1963: "The Creation of the President's House" in Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.|page=37 |journal = Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.|volume = 63/65|jstor = 40067353|last1 = Pearce|first1 = John Newton|year = 1963}} much to the consternation of visitors.{{cite book |last1=Truman |first1=Margaret |author-link1=Margaret Truman |title=White House Pets |date=2016 |publisher=New Word City |isbn=9781612309392 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rh12CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 |language=en}} Possibly sent to France aboard the USS Brandywine.}}{{efn|See: Conveying Marquis de Lafayette to France}} Although this story has been widely circulated, the lack of evidence from contemporary accounts or official records suggests an apocryphal myth.{{cite web |last1=Hager |first1=Andrew |title=Bitten by an Alligator |url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/blog/bitten-by-an-alligator/ |website=Presidential Pet Museum |access-date=December 21, 2018 |date=February 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221182536/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/blog/bitten-by-an-alligator/ |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Dorre |first1=Howard |title=John Quincy Adams's Pet Alligator Was A Crock |url=https://www.ploddingthroughthepresidents.com/2018/02/john-quincy-adams-pet-alligator-is-crock.html |website=Plodding through the Presidents |access-date=December 21, 2018 |date=February 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221090559/https://www.ploddingthroughthepresidents.com/2018/02/john-quincy-adams-pet-alligator-is-crock.html |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |url-status=live }}

• Poll – grey parrot who learned to swear. She later attended Jackson's funeral but had to be removed due to loud and persistent profanity.
• Fighting cocks
• Bolivia, Emily, Lady Nashville, Sam Patch, and Truxton – horses Sam Patch was named after the famous daredevil known as "The Yankee Leaper."

• Two tiger cubs – Van Buren received them from Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman but Congress quickly forced him to donate the tigers to the zoo.{{cite news|last1=Longley|first1=Robert|title=First Pets: Animals in the White House|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/white-house-pets-4144590|access-date=July 11, 2017|work=ThoughtCo.|date=June 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014011227/https://www.thoughtco.com/white-house-pets-4144590|archive-date=October 14, 2017|url-status=live}} This story, however, might be untrue and based on a rumor of a similar story at the time, relating to a gift from the emperor of Morocco and the American Consulate in Tangier.{{cite web |last1=Dessem |first1=Matthew |title=The Best (and Worst) Presidential Pets in American History, Ranked |url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/presidential-pets-best-ever-ranked.html |website=Slate Magazine |access-date=February 5, 2021 |language=en |date=January 31, 2021 |archive-date=July 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730192531/https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/presidential-pets-best-ever-ranked.html |url-status=live }}

• Sukey – Durham cow{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2jlRq_0gOMC&pg=PA516

|title=The Handy Science Answer Book | publisher=Visible Ink Press | date=2011 | access-date=October 3, 2015|isbn=9781578593217 }}

• Whisker – Goat

• Le Beau – Italian Greyhound
• Johnny Ty – canary. Brought to the White House by Tyler's second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler
• The General – horse

• None

• Old Whitey – horse Taylor's wartime mount
• Apollo – Pony; formerly a "trick pony" from a circus, a present for Taylor's daughter Betty and resided in the White House stables with Old Whitey{{cite web |title=Apollo, Zachary Taylor's Pony |url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/apollo-zachary-taylor-pony/ |website=Presidential Pet Museum |access-date=December 19, 2018 |date=January 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220230521/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/apollo-zachary-taylor-pony/ |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |url-status=live }}

• Mason and Dixon – ponies

• At least two{{efn|Number uncertain, perhaps received as many as seven. "Pierce was thought to have kept one dog, and he gave the other to his Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis. Davis was particularly pleased with the dog and was known to have carried it with him in his pocket." }} miniature "teacup" Japanese Chin dogs, part of a gift exchange with Japan following the Perry Expedition{{cite web|author1=Kate Kelly|title=Teacup Dogs Owned by President Franklin Pierce|url=http://americacomesalive.com/2015/08/05/teacup-dogs-owned-by-president-franklin-pierce/|website=America Comes Alive|access-date=August 27, 2017|date=August 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827212711/http://americacomesalive.com/2015/08/05/teacup-dogs-owned-by-president-franklin-pierce/|archive-date=August 27, 2017|url-status=live}}
• Two birds from Japan, which had just opened its trading posts to the United States.

• Lara – Newfoundland{{Cite web |title=The Presidents Of The United States & The Pets They Owned |date=September 14, 2017 |url=https://www.info-france-usa.org/presidents-of-the-usa-and-their-pets/#:~:text=James%20Buchanan%20owned%20an%20eagle,was%20smarter%20than%20his%20cabinet. |access-date=June 25, 2024 |archive-date=July 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721185019/https://www.info-france-usa.org/presidents-of-the-usa-and-their-pets/#:~:text=James%20Buchanan%20owned%20an%20eagle,was%20smarter%20than%20his%20cabinet. |url-status=live }}
• Punch – Toy terrier
• Eagle
• 2 Thai elephants – Sent from the king of Siam but they arrived when Abraham Lincoln was president. Refused.{{Cite web |title=Letter to the King of Siam (February 3, 1862) |url=https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/letter-to-the-king-of-siam-february-3-1862/. |access-date=September 27, 2024 |archive-date=August 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807210242/https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/lincoln/letter-to-the-king-of-siam-february-3-1862/ |url-status=live }}

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• Nanny and Nanko – goats
• Jack – Turkey, intended as Christmas dinner, but Tad Lincoln intervened{{cite web|last1=King|first1=Gilbert|title=The History of Pardoning Turkeys Began With Tad Lincoln|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-pardoning-turkeys-began-with-tad-lincoln-141137570/|website=Smithsonian|access-date=January 26, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126125527/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-pardoning-turkeys-began-with-tad-lincoln-141137570/|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Fido – dog, "assassinated"{{cite web|last1=Ackermann|first1=Ann Marie|title=Lincoln's dog Fido: A Faithful Pet Assassinated Like His Master|url=https://www.annmarieackermann.com/lincolns-dog-fido/|website=www.annmarieackermann.com|access-date=May 16, 2018|date=July 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517082130/https://www.annmarieackermann.com/lincolns-dog-fido/|archive-date=May 17, 2018|url-status=live}} by a drunk with a knife, a few months after Lincoln's assassination;{{cite web|last1=McClarey|first1=Donald R.|title=Lincoln's Dog Fido|url=https://the-american-catholic.com/2011/01/30/lincolns-dog-fido/|website=The American Catholic|access-date=May 16, 2018|date=January 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517082251/https://the-american-catholic.com/2011/01/30/lincolns-dog-fido/|archive-date=May 17, 2018|url-status=live}} "Fido" became a generic name for a dog because of Lincoln's famous dog{{cite web|last1=Coren|first1=Stanley|author-link1=Stanley Coren|title=Why Are Dogs So Frequently Called "Fido"?|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201110/why-are-dogs-so-frequently-called-fido|website=Psychology Today|publisher=Sussex Publishers|access-date=May 16, 2018|location=Canine Corner|date=October 12, 2011}}{{cite web|title=Where Does the Dog Name Fido Come From?|url=https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/did-you-know/where-does-the-dog-name-fido-come-from/|website=American Kennel Club|access-date=May 16, 2018|date=January 1, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517082335/https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/did-you-know/where-does-the-dog-name-fido-come-from/|archive-date=May 17, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Jip – dog
• Tabby and Dixie – cats. Lincoln was gifted Tabby and Dixie from his Secretary of State William Seward when it was decided that Lincoln’s dog Fido would have to stay home in Illinois after his election. Lincoln once remarked that Dixie "is smarter than my whole cabinet."{{cite web |url=http://presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/abraham-lincoln-cats/ |title=Abraham Lincoln's Cats |access-date=April 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429220857/http://presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/abraham-lincoln-cats/ |archive-date=April 29, 2014 |url-status=live |date=January 9, 2014 }}
• Horse
• Rabbit
• Old Bob – horse
• Pig – One lived on the White House grounds

• None, however, Johnson fed white mice he found in his bedroom{{cite web | url=https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/andrew-johnsons-mice/ | title=Andrew Johnson's Mice | access-date=January 25, 2021 | archive-date=January 26, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126014124/https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/andrew-johnsons-mice/ | url-status=live }}

• Butcher's Boy, Cincinnati, Egypt, Jeff Davis (his wartime mount), Jennie, Julia, Mary, and St. Louis – Horses. Grant purchased Butcher's Boy from a butcher following an impromptu race on D.C. streets where he lost to this horse pulling a butcher's cart.{{cite web |last1=Bushong |first1=William |title=Presidents as Horsemen |url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/presidents-as-horsemen |website=The White House Historical Association |access-date=July 16, 2019 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716000501/https://www.whitehousehistory.org/presidents-as-horsemen |archive-date=July 16, 2019 |url-status=live }} Cincinnati was a thoroughbred of renowned racing pedigree.{{cite web |title=Ulysses S. Grant and His Horses During and After the Civil War |url=http://faculty.css.edu/mkelsey/usgrant/hors2.html |website=The Ulysses S. Grant Information Center |publisher=College of St. Scholastica |access-date=August 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719150925/http://faculty.css.edu/mkelsey/usgrant/hors2.html |archive-date=July 19, 2011}}
• Billy Button and Reb – ponies
• Faithful – Newfoundland
• Rosie – dog
• Parrot

• Dot – Cocker Spaniel
• Hector – Newfoundland
• Duke – English Mastiff
• Grim – Greyhound
• Otis – Miniature Schnauzer
• Juno and Shep – Hunting dogs
• Jet – dog
• Piccolomini – cat (presumably named after the Italian general)
• Siam – First Siamese cat in the United States{{cite sign|title=Sickles letter about Siamese cat|location=Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center}}
• Miss Pussy – Siamese cat

• Kit – horse
• Veto – dog

• Rabbit
• Three horses

• Hector – German poodle
• Mockingbirds
• Three{{cite web |first=Kate |last=Kelly |title=Grover Cleveland's Dogs and Other Pets |url=https://americacomesalive.com/grover-clevelands-dogs-pets/ |website=americacomesalive.com |date=July 13, 2016 |access-date=2024-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806022937/http://americacomesalive.com/2016/07/13/grover-clevelands-dogs-pets/ |archive-date=2017-08-06 |url-status=live}} Dachshunds
• Gallagher – Cocker Spaniel{{Cite web |title=31 photos of the most adorable dogs to live in the White House |first1=Pat |last1=Ralph |first2=Ellen |last2=Cranley |first3=Talia |last3=Lakritz |date=2023-02-18 |website=Business Insider |quote=Grover Cleveland's cocker spaniel named Gallagher had a brown coat and ears of "inconvenient length."|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-presidents-dogs-2018-8 |access-date=2024-08-29 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225064121/https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-presidents-dogs-2018-8 |archive-date=2023-02-25 |url-status=live }}
• Hundreds of imported fish, including exotic fish and common goldfish{{Cite web |title=Grover Cleveland's Fish |url=https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/grover-clevelands-fish/ |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=Presidential Pet Museum |language=en-US |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716130358/https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/grover-clevelands-fish/ |url-status=live }}
• Paradise fish – A gift from the ruler of Siam (now Thailand)

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• Whiskers ("His Whiskers," or "Old Whiskers") – goat, kept at the White House for the president's grandchildren; may have belonged to Russell Harrison{{cite web|last1=Kelly|first1=Kate|title=The Pets in the Benjamin Harrison White House|url=https://americacomesalive.com/2013/08/25/the-pets-in-the-benjamin-harrison-white-house/|website=America Comes Alive|access-date=January 26, 2018|date=August 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126184916/https://americacomesalive.com/2013/08/25/the-pets-in-the-benjamin-harrison-white-house/|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Dash – collie
• Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection – opossums,{{cite web|last1=Best|first1=Jama A.|title=Opossums and the Presidency: A Tail of Intrigue and The White House|url=http://ualr.edu/cahc/files/2013/04/Opossums-and-the-Presidency.pdf|website=UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture|publisher=University of Arkansas|access-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511145849/http://ualr.edu/cahc/files/2013/04/Opossums-and-the-Presidency.pdf|archive-date=May 11, 2018|url-status=live}} named from the 1896 Republican party platform,{{cite news|last1=Cox|first1=Ana Marie|title=Top 10 presidential pets in US history|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/20/top-ten-presidential-pets|access-date=May 11, 2018|work=The Guardian|date=August 20, 2013|location=Opinion|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511150233/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/20/top-ten-presidential-pets|archive-date=May 11, 2018|url-status=live}} which includes: "Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy and go hand in hand."{{cite web|title=1896: The Republican Platform|url=http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/gopplatform.html|website=projects.vassar.edu|publisher=Vassar College|access-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428125323/http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/gopplatform.html|archive-date=April 28, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Two alligators – According to one account, Russell Harrison kept two alligators in the White House conservatorySan Francisco Chronicle. "Russell Harrison's Alligator Didn't Influence His Friends' Luck." May 9, 1890. Via: {{cite web |title=FACT CHECK: Were Alligators Ever Kept as White House Pets? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alligators-white-house-pets/ |website=Snopes.com |date=February 19, 2018 |access-date=December 19, 2018}}

• Washington Post (or "Loretta"){{cite web |last1=Dessem |first1=Matthew |title=The Best (and Worst) Presidential Pets in American History, Ranked |url=https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/presidential-pets-best-ever-ranked.html |website=Slate Magazine |language=en |date=January 31, 2021 |access-date=February 5, 2021 |archive-date=July 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730192531/https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/presidential-pets-best-ever-ranked.html |url-status=live }} – Yellow-headed Mexican parrot; could whistle "Yankee Doodle"
• Valeriano Weyler and Enrique DeLome – Angora kittens; named after Spanish general Valeriano Weyler and Spanish ambassador Enrique Dupuy de Lôme
• Roosters

File:Archie Roosevelt poses with Algonquin 1902.jpg File:Theodore Roosevelt and Family - 24 August 1907.jpg File:St. Nicholas (serial) (1873) (14595456808).jpg (1908); original caption: {{smallcaps|"With an amused bow, the President escorted the Ambassadress around 'Slippers' and kept on his way toward the East Room."}}{{cite magazine|last1=Riis|first1=Jacob A.|author-link1=Jacob Riis|title="Slippers," The White House Cat|url=https://archive.org/stream/stnicholasserial351dodg/stnicholasserial351dodg#page/203/mode/1up|via=Internet Archive|magazine=St. Nicholas|volume=XXXV|date=January 1908|number=3|page=203|access-date=May 29, 2018}}}} ]]

• Admiral Dewey, Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, Father O'Grady, Fighting Bob Evans – guinea pigs; namesakes: George Dewey, William Croswell Doane, (likely John O'Grady (priest)) and Robley D. Evans
• Algonquin – "Calico pony" (Shetland), favored by Roosevelt's son Archie{{cite book|last1=McClintock|first1=J. N.|title=New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 29|date=1904|publisher=America Company|location=Boston|page=601|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HhPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA601 |access-date=January 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629012326/https://books.google.com/books?id=9HhPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA601&lpg=PA601|archive-date=June 29, 2019|url-status=live}}
• Bleistein – horse. The favorite of all his horses{{Cite web |title=Theodore Roosevelt's Bleistein |url=https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/theodore-roosevelts-bleistein/ |website=Presidential Pet Museum |access-date=August 13, 2024 |archive-date=August 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240813200947/https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/theodore-roosevelts-bleistein/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Horsing' Around – Theodore Roosevelt's Presidential Pets |url=https://www.insp.com/blog/theodore-roosevelts-white-house-pets/horsin-around/ |website=Ispn.com |access-date=August 13, 2024 |archive-date=August 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240813200947/https://www.insp.com/blog/theodore-roosevelts-white-house-pets/horsin-around/ |url-status=live }}
• Baron Spreckle – hen, likely named after sugar baron Claus Spreckels
• Bill the Lizard – lizard,{{cite web |last1=Roosevelt |first1=Theodore |title=53. Bill the Lizard. |url=https://www.bartleby.com/53/53.html |website=www.bartleby.com |access-date=December 18, 2018 |location=Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children |date=June 21, 1904 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218145620/https://www.bartleby.com/53/53.html |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |url-status=live }} brought from California and described as a "horned frog"{{cite web |last1=Roosevelt |first1=Theodore |title=20. More Treasures. |url=https://www.bartleby.com/53/20.html |website=www.bartleby.com |access-date=December 18, 2018 |location=Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children |date=May 10, 1903 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218145638/https://www.bartleby.com/53/20.html |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |url-status=live }} (cf. horned toad); likely named after Lewis Carroll's Bill the Lizard.
• Blackjack – Manchester Terrier
• Eli Yale – Hyacinth macaw Named after the British merchant (also College namesake)
• Emily Spinach – garter snake, so named by Roosevelt's daughter Alice because "it was as green as spinach and as thin as my Aunt Emily"{{cite web|title=Why did Alice Roosevelt own a pet snake named Emily Spinach?|url=https://www.childrensmuseum.org/blog/why-pet-snake|website=www.childrensmuseum.org|publisher=The Children's Museum of Indianapolis|access-date=May 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510051132/https://www.childrensmuseum.org/blog/why-pet-snake|archive-date=May 10, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Fedelity – pony
• Gem and Susan – dogs
• Jack and Pete – terriers Pete was exiled to Long Island "after chomping on one too many legs."{{cite web|title=Presidential Pets|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/presidential-pets/22/|website=CBS News|publisher=CBS Interactive Inc.|access-date=May 16, 2018|language=en|date=October 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517082303/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/presidential-pets/22/|archive-date=May 17, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Jonathan Edwards – small black bear from West Virginia{{cite web|title=The Roosevelt Pets|url=http://www.nps.gov/thrb/historyculture/the-roosevelt-pets.htm|work=National Park Service|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior|access-date=December 21, 2012|quote=(Reprinted from the National Archives and Records Administration)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115121921/http://www.nps.gov/thrb/historyculture/the-roosevelt-pets.htm|archive-date=January 15, 2013|url-status=live}} named after the religious leader, an ancestor of Mrs. Roosevelt;{{cite book|last1=Roosevelt|first1=Theodore|editor1-last=Bishop|editor1-first=Joseph B.|title=Letters to his children|date=1919|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York|isbn=9781623769864|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HBFABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |access-date=February 4, 2018|language=en}} eventually sent to the Bronx Zoo{{cite web|last1=Thompson|first1=Madeleine|title=A Small Bear Named Jonathan Edwards|url=http://www.wcsarchivesblog.org/a-small-bear-named-jonathan-edwards/|website=WCS Archives Blog|publisher=Wildlife Conservation Society|access-date=February 4, 2018|date=September 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204124126/http://www.wcsarchivesblog.org/a-small-bear-named-jonathan-edwards/|archive-date=February 4, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Jonathan – Piebald rat
• Josiah (or "Josh") – badger During a railroad tour of the West, the president acquired two-week-old Josiah at a stop in Sharon Springs, Kansas{{cite news|last1=Tanner|first1=Beccy|title=Pet Kansas badger once roamed White House|url=http://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-story-of-kansas/article1098732.html|access-date=February 3, 2018|work=Wichita Eagle|date=September 10, 2012|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203125204/http://www.kansas.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-story-of-kansas/article1098732.html|archive-date=February 3, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Manchu – Pekingese dog
• Maude – pig
• Peter Rabbit – rabbit; was given a "proper state" funeral{{cite web |last1=Roosevelt |first1=Theodore |title=49. Peter Rabbit's Funeral. |url=https://www.bartleby.com/53/49.html |website=www.bartleby.com |location=Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children |date=May 28, 1904 |access-date=December 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218145606/https://www.bartleby.com/53/49.html |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |url-status=live }} Cf. Peter Rabbit.
• Rollo – Saint Bernard
• Skip – mongrel
• Sailor Boy – Chesapeake Bay Retriever
• Tom Quartz and Slippers – Cats, Tom Quartz was named after a cat in a Mark Twain story.{{cite book|title=Roughing It|author-link=Mark Twain|first=Mark|last=Twain|date=1872|chapter=Chapter LXI|chapter-url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8588/8588-h/8588-h.htm#440|via=Project Gutenberg|access-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060325212502/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8588/8588-h/8588-h.htm#440|archive-date=March 25, 2006|url-status=live}}
• Bill – laughing hyena, gift from Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia{{cite web|title=America's First Presidential Hyena|url=https://ethiopianism411.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/americas-first-presidential-hyena/|website=Ethiopianism-Ethiopiawinet Online Revival|access-date=August 27, 2017|date=November 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828063252/https://ethiopianism411.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/americas-first-presidential-hyena/|archive-date=August 28, 2017|url-status=live}}
• Barn owl{{Cite web |date=August 11, 2023 |title=A history of presidential pets |url=https://www.ketk.com/community/clear-the-shelters/a-history-of-presidential-pets/ |website=Ketk.com |access-date=July 29, 2024 |archive-date=July 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729213812/https://www.ketk.com/community/clear-the-shelters/a-history-of-presidential-pets/ |url-status=live }}
• Fierce{{cite web|title=Presidential pets: The Roosevelts' menagerie|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/presidential-pets-the-roosevelts-menagerie/|website=CBS News|access-date=December 6, 2020|date=November 27, 2020|language=en|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205113849/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/presidential-pets-the-roosevelts-menagerie/|url-status=live}} – one-legged rooster
• Lion{{Cite web |date=2020-04-23 |title=Lions, tigers and bears: the US presidents who took animal ownership to extremes |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/24/lions-tigers-and-bears-the-us-presidents-who-took-animal-ownership-to-extremes |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}

• Caruso – dog, a gift for Taft's daughter Helen from opera singer Enrico Caruso; after a White House performance, he decided that cows were not appropriate pets for a little girl{{cite web|title=William Taft's Caruso|url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/william-tafts-caruso/|website=Presidential Pet Museum|access-date=May 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510185833/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/william-tafts-caruso/|archive-date=May 10, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Mooly Wooly and Pauline Wayne – cows. Pauline (or "Miss Wayne") was a Holstein of considerable fame; she "went missing" for two days.{{cite web |title=Pauline Wayne, President Taft's Famous Cow |url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/pauline_wayne/ |website=Presidential Pet Museum |access-date=March 15, 2020 |date=July 22, 2013 |archive-date=March 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315105033/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/pauline_wayne/ |url-status=live }}

• Davie – Airedale Terrier
• Old Ike – ram, led the flock of sheep
• Puffins – cat
• Bruce – Bull Terrier
• Songbirds
• Sheep – The flock, numbering 48 at its peak,{{cite web |title=Why did President Woodrow Wilson keep a flock of sheep on the White House lawn? |url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/why-did-president-woodrow-wilson-keep-a-flock-of-sheep-on-the-white-house-lawn |website=White House Historical Association |access-date=December 22, 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222152502/https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/why-did-president-woodrow-wilson-keep-a-flock-of-sheep-on-the-white-house-lawn |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |url-status=live }} kept the White House lawn trimmed "in the most economical way".{{cite web|last1=Kelly|first1=Kate|title=The Pets of Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)|url=https://americacomesalive.com/2012/08/15/the-pets-of-woodrow-wilson-1856-1924/|website=America Comes Alive|access-date=May 11, 2018|date=August 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511081406/https://americacomesalive.com/2012/08/15/the-pets-of-woodrow-wilson-1856-1924/|archive-date=May 11, 2018|url-status=live}} Their wool was sold to benefit the Red Cross{{cite web |title=White House Pets in the Past |url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/white-house-pets-in-the-past |website=WhiteHouseHistory.org |publisher=White House Historical Association |access-date=December 20, 2018 |at=Gallery image description: 6 / 7 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221053603/https://www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/white-house-pets-in-the-past |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |url-status=live }}

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• Laddie Boy (July 26, 1920 – January 23, 1929) – Airedale Terrier
• Old Boy – Bulldog
• Petey – canary{{cite web|url=https://beesfirstappearance.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/harding/|title=Pay a Call on Petey the Canary at Warren G. Harding's Marion Home|last=Betsy|date=July 1, 2013|access-date=June 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011091654/https://beesfirstappearance.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/harding/|archive-date=October 11, 2016|url-status=live}}
• Bob – canary{{cite web|url=https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/warren-hardings-canaries/|title=Warren Harding's Canaries: Presidential Pet Museum|access-date=25 November 2024|archive-date=November 30, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130191005/https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/warren-hardings-canaries/|url-status=live}}
• Numerous canaries, names not recorded{{cite web|url=https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/warren-hardings-canaries/|title=Warren Harding's Canaries: Presidential Pet Museum|access-date=25 November 2024|archive-date=November 30, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130191005/https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/warren-hardings-canaries/|url-status=live}}
• Pete – squirrel{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2002712422/ |title=Pete, pet squirrel at the Executive Mansion, is causing Laddie Boy to look to his laurels|website=Library of Congress|access-date=September 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925062910/https://www.loc.gov/item/2002712422/ |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/warren-hardings-pete/ |title=Warren Harding's Pete|access-date=September 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925062910/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/warren-hardings-pete/ |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |url-status=live }}

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• Rob Roy (1922–1928) and Prudence Prim – White collies
• Peter Pan – Wirehair Fox Terrier, the Coolidges' first White House dog;
• Paul Pry – Airedale Terrier, half-brother of Warren Harding's Laddy Boy
• Calamity Jane – Shetland Sheepdog
• Tiny Tim and Blackberry – Chow Chows
• Ruby Rouch – collie
• Boston Beans – Boston bulldog
• King Cole – Belgian Sheepdog (Groenendael)
• Palo Alto ("Palo") – A black and white English Setter, a bird dog that Coolidge soon gave to Colonel Starling, chief of the Secret Service detail in the White House
• Bessie – collie
• Rebecca – raccoon, Rebecca was intended for a Thanksgiving feast; First Lady Grace had a tree-house built for her instead{{cite web|last1=Pietrusza|first1=David|author-link1=David Pietrusza|title="Wombats and Such": Calvin and Grace Coolidge and Their Pets|url=http://www.davidpietrusza.com/coolidge-pets.html|website=www.davidpietrusza.com|access-date=January 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203004613/http://www.davidpietrusza.com/coolidge-pets.html|archive-date=February 3, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Reuben – A male raccoon acquired as a companion for Rebecca; soon escaped and not recovered{{cite web |last1=Costello |first1=Matthew |title=Raccoons at the White House |url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/raccoons-at-the-white-house |website=The White House Historical Association |date=June 8, 2018 |access-date=December 19, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928164945/https://www.whitehousehistory.org/raccoons-at-the-white-house |url-status=live }}
• Ebeneezer – donkey
• Nip and Tuck – canaries, both olive green in color; the Coolidges' first birds
• Peter Piper and Snowflake – Two more canaries; Snowflake was white
• Goldy – A "yellow bird"
• Do-Funny – a trained songbird (troupial) from South America; said to be Mrs. Coolidge's favorite bird
• Enoch – goose
• Smoky – bobcat
• Blacky and Tiger (or "Tige") – cats{{cite web|last1=Houghton|first1=Leah|title=The Coolidge Pets|url=https://coolidgefoundation.org/resources/the-coolidge-pets/|website=coolidgefoundation.org|publisher=Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation|access-date=January 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127084353/https://coolidgefoundation.org/resources/the-coolidge-pets/|archive-date=January 27, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau – lion cubs from Johannesburg, South Africa
• Billy – pygmy hippopotamus, full name: William Johnson Hippopotamus{{cite web |last1=Roby |first1=Marguerite |title=Goody Goody Gumdrops |url=https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/goody-goody-gumdrops |website=Smithsonian Institution Archives |access-date=November 8, 2018 |language=en |date=September 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070658/https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/goody-goody-gumdrops |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live }}
• A wallaby – Promptly given to a zoo
• A duiker (a very small type of antelope) – Also sent to the zoo
• Bruno – A black bear from Chihuahua, Mexico; Mrs. Coolidge promptly sent him to a zoo
• Pekin ducks – Thirteen ducklings were received as an Easter gift; Mrs. Coolidge attempted to raise them in a White House bathroom, but eventually sent them to a zoo

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• Mr. Cat – a cat{{cite book |title=How to Hide an Empire |first=Daniel |last=Immerwahr |year=2019 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |page=301 }}
• Billy Possum – A wild opossum that occupied Rebecca's vacant tree-house and was "adopted" by the Hoovers; temporarily filled in for a local high school's missing mascot.{{cite web |last1=Theis |first1=Michael |title=Hoover's Opossum Brings Luck to Hyattsville Baseball Team |url=https://patch.com/maryland/hyattsville/hoover-s-opossum-brings-luck-to-hyattsville-baseball-team |website=Hyattsville, MD Patch |publisher=Patch Media |access-date=December 24, 2018 |language=en |date=May 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225125931/https://patch.com/maryland/hyattsville/hoover-s-opossum-brings-luck-to-hyattsville-baseball-team |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Hoover Possum Promised Lads |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hA1WAAAAIBAJ&pg=7004%2C3105108 |access-date=December 24, 2018 |work=The Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |date=July 16, 1929 |location=Spokane Wash |page=9 |archive-date=February 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201051039/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hA1WAAAAIBAJ&pg=7004,3105108 |url-status=live }} The name likely derives from a nickname used for the 27th president, William Howard Taft.{{cite web |last1=Burris |first1=Cassie |title=Ohio History |url=https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/education/resource-roundup/november-2019-(1)/billy-possum |website=OhioHistory.org |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=November 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114123110/https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/education/resource-roundup/november-2019-(1)/billy-possum |url-status=dead }}
• Caruso – A Roller canary
• {{anchor|King Tut}}King Tut – Belgian ShepherdAmy Ruth, Herbert Hoover, Twenty-First Century Books, 2004, {{ISBN|0-8225-0821-4}}. p. 64. (Malinois variety)
• Pat – German Shepherd
• Big Ben and Sonnie – Fox TerriersWayne Bryant Eldridge, Tom Kerr The Best Pet Name Book Ever!, Barron's Educational Series, 2003, {{ISBN|0-7641-2499-4}}. p. 29.
• Glen – Scotch Collie
• Yukonan – Canadian Eskimo DogChoron, 20.
• Patrick – Irish Wolfhound
• Eaglehurst Gillette – Setter
• Weegie – Norwegian Elkhound{{cite web |title=The First Family's Pets |url=https://hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/first-familys-pets |website=The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |access-date=December 21, 2018 |language=en |date=May 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221090559/https://hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/first-familys-pets |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |url-status=live }}
• Alligators – Owned by his son Allan

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• Fala (April 7, 1940 – April 5, 1952) – Scottish Terrier
• Major – German Shepherd Formerly a police dog from the New York State Police{{cite web |title=FDR's German Shepherd, Major |url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/fdr-german-shepherd-major/ |website=Presidential Pet Museum |access-date=March 30, 2019 |date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330190057/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/fdr-german-shepherd-major/ |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |url-status=live }} After a number of White House biting incidents, he was sent to live at Roosevelt's private residence in Hyde Park, New York.{{cite web |last1=Wanshel |first1=Elyse |title=FDR's German Shepherd, Major, Had A History Of 'Biting Incidents,' Too |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/major-fdr-biden-german-shepherd_n_6064b13cc5b6d5b7a695293a |website=HuffPost |access-date=June 22, 2021 |language=en |date=March 31, 2021}}
• Meggie – Scottish Terrier
• Winks – Llewellyn Setter
• Tiny – Old English Sheepdog
• President – Great Dane
• Blaze – Bullmastiff

• Feller – Cocker Spaniel,{{cite web |url=http://www.highland-ohio.com/presidential_dog.htm |title=President Truman's Dog, Feller |publisher=Highland-ohio.com |date=January 12, 1948 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711165403/http://www.highland-ohio.com/presidential_dog.htm |archive-date=July 11, 2011 |url-status=live }} because the Trumans "preferred to be a pet-free family" he was given as a puppy to Truman's personal physician{{cite web|title=Prezs' best friend: Dogs, cats and a raccoon among presidential pets over the years|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/past-presidential-pets-include-dog-cat-raccoon-n719481|website=NBC News|date=February 20, 2017 |access-date=January 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126185501/https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/past-presidential-pets-include-dog-cat-raccoon-n719481|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}} (slide 11/26) and claimed to not be a "pet lover" {{cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-presidents-dogs-2018-8#harry-truman-gave-away-his-dog-a-cocker-spaniel-named-feller-to-a-family-physician-because-he-was-not-a-dog-lover-7 |title=All the Presidents Dogs: Photos of White House Pets |publisher=Businessinsider.com |date= |accessdate=2022-04-17 |archive-date=October 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023055436/https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-presidents-dogs-2018-8#harry-truman-gave-away-his-dog-a-cocker-spaniel-named-feller-to-a-family-physician-because-he-was-not-a-dog-lover-7 |url-status=live }}
• Mike – Irish Setter

• Gabby – parakeet{{Cite book |title=Hail to the Chief!: Fun Facts and Activities about the US Presidents |last=West |first=Tracey |publisher=Penguin Young Readers Group |isbn=9-780-3995-4146-9 |location=New York |year=2016 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NBpPDQAAQBAJ |access-date=2024-08-29 |via=Google Books |url-access=limited}}
• Heidi – Weimaraner{{cite web |url=https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/pets.html |title=White House Pets |publisher=Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home |access-date=March 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316095704/https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/pets.html |archive-date=March 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}
• Dzimbo – baby Forest elephant, sent by the French Community of African Republics, sent away to the National zoo{{Cite book |last=Grove |first=Noel |title=Inside the White House Stories From the World's Most Famous Residence Foreword By Former First Lady Laura Bush |date=November 12, 2013 |publisher=National Geographic |isbn=978-1-4262-1681-7}}

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• Gaullie – poodleSally Bedell Smith, Grace And Power, Random House, Inc., 2006, {{ISBN|0-345-48497-5}}, p. 219.
• Charlie – Welsh Terrier
• Tom Kitten – cat{{cite web|url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Pets.htm |title=Pets – John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum |publisher=Jfklibrary.org |date=December 3, 1961 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822052209/http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Pets.htm |archive-date=August 22, 2006 }}
• Robin – canary
• Bluebell and Marybelle – parakeets
• Ducks – JFK's daughter, five-year-old Caroline raised ducklings at the White House.{{cite web |title=Caroline Kennedy's Pet Ducks |url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/caroline-kennedys-pet-ducks |website=White House Historical Society |access-date=December 22, 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222082135/https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/caroline-kennedys-pet-ducks |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |url-status=live }} Ongoing conflicts with their terrier Charlie prompted sending them to Rock Creek Park.{{cite web |title=White House Christmas Cards & Messages from John F. Kennedy |date=January 17, 2010 |url=https://www.whitehousechristmascards.com/john-f-kennedy-1961-1963/john-f-kennedy/ |access-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222125408/https://www.whitehousechristmascards.com/john-f-kennedy-1961-1963/john-f-kennedy/ |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |url-status=live }}
• Macaroni – ponySmith, 125.
• Tex – bay-colored Yakut pony
• Leprechaun – Connemara pony, a gift from the president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera{{cite web |author1=Robert Knudsen |title=KN-C30039. Kennedy Family with Pony, Leprechaun |url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHP/1963/Month%2009/Day%2030/JFKWHP-1963-09-30-E?image_identifier=JFKWHP-KN-C30039 |website=White House Photographs |publisher=John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston |access-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222125443/https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHP/1963/Month%2009/Day%2030/JFKWHP-1963-09-30-E?image_identifier=JFKWHP-KN-C30039 |archive-date=December 22, 2018 |url-status=live }}
• Moe – Doberman Pinscher
• Billie and Debbie – hamsters
• Pushinka – dog (gift of Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev, puppy of Soviet space dog Strelka)
• Shannon – Cocker Spaniel
• Wolf – Dog, mix of Irish Wolfhound and Schnauzer{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9yBB54VXgcC&pg=PA414 |page=414 |title=The Giant Book of Dog Names |isbn=9781451666915 |last1=Morrow |first1=Laurie Bogart |date=October 9, 2012 |publisher=Simon and Schuster }}
• Clipper – German Shepherd{{cite web |url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/jfk-dog-clipper/ |title=JFK's German shepherd, Clipper |access-date=October 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008082147/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/jfk-dog-clipper/ |archive-date=October 8, 2017 |url-status=live |date=January 24, 2016 }}
• Butterfly, White Tips, Blackie, and Streaker – Offspring of Pushinka and Charlie
• Zsa Zsa – rabbit
• Sardar – horseSmith, 293, 489.
• Spotted Salamander – given by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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• Him and Her – beaglesBryant, Traphes, with Frances Spatz Leighton, Dog Days at the White House: The Outrageous Memoirs of the Presidential Kennel Keeper, New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1975. {{ISBN|0-671-80533-9}}
• Edgar – beagle{{Cite web |website=Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum |url=http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/Johnson/archives.hom/FAQs/dog/doghouse.asp |title=President Johnson's Dogs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711110752/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/FAQs/dog/doghouse.asp |archive-date=July 11, 2007 }}
• Blanco – white collie
• Freckles – beagle
• Yuki – mongrel dog famous for "singing duets" (howling) with Johnson for White House guests{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Nick |title=A salute to the presidents' pets |url=https://newsok.com/article/5583694/a-salute-to-the-presidents-pets |access-date=January 7, 2019 |work=NewsOK.com |publisher=The Oklahoman |date=February 19, 2018 |archive-date=August 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811063824/https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2018/02/19/a-salute-to-the-presidents-pets/60542403007/ |url-status=live }}
• Hamsters
• Lovebirds{{cite web |url=http://www.exoticdogs.com/presidents/display.php?p=36 |title=Lyndon B. Johnson's Pet Info |publisher=Exoticdogs.com |access-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710211711/http://www.exoticdogs.com/presidents/display.php?p=36 |archive-date=July 10, 2011 |url-status=live }}
• Little Beagle Johnson – had the family initials LBJ{{Cite book |last=Dumont |first=Brianna |title=Weird But True know-it-all U.S. Presidents}}

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• Vicky – poodle{{cite web |title=Nixon Family Pets |url=https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/news/nixon-family-pets |website=Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum |date=April 19, 2022 |access-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908163223/https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/news/nixon-family-pets |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/nixon.html|title=Richard M. Nixon|date=June 5, 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040605203932/http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/nixon.html|archive-date=June 5, 2004}}
• Pasha – Yorkshire terrier
• King Timahoe – Irish SetterBauer, 8.
• Checkers (1952– September 9, 1964){{efn|Checkers died in 1964, before Nixon became president, but had played a major role in his electoral career}} – Cocker Spaniel
• A fish

• Liberty (February 8, 1974 – 1984) – Golden Retriever
• Misty – Liberty's puppy, born in the White House
• Shan – Siamese cat{{Cite web|website=Ford Presidential Library and Museum |url=http://www.ford.utexas.edu/grf/pets.asp |title=Ford Family White House and Pets |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202071441/http://www.ford.utexas.edu/grf/pets.asp |archive-date=February 2, 2009 }}

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• Grits – Border collie (mix);{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-080812-president-pets-photogallery-photogallery.html|title=Presidential pets|first=Chicago|last=Tribune|website=chicagotribune.com|date=August 20, 2013 |access-date=August 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805020548/http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-080812-president-pets-photogallery-photogallery.html|archive-date=August 5, 2017|url-status=live}} Given to his daughter Amy by her teacher, but quickly returned{{cite web |url=http://www.bullysticksinfo.com/dog-ownership/90-presidential-pooch-grits-the-impeached-first-dog/ |title=Presidential Pooch – Grits, the Impeached First Dog | Bully Sticks |publisher=Bullysticksinfo.com |date=November 21, 2008 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104159/http://www.bullysticksinfo.com/dog-ownership/90-presidential-pooch-grits-the-impeached-first-dog/ |archive-date=July 8, 2011 }} after snapping at several White House visitors
• Lewis Brown – Afghan hound{{cite web|last1=Diego|first1=Alpha|title=Presidential Dogs: Past U.S. Presidents and Their Fur Babies|url=http://dogbreedsjournal.com/presidential-dogs/|website=dogbreedsjournal.com|publisher=Dog Breeds Journal|access-date=January 25, 2018|date=November 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126071013/http://dogbreedsjournal.com/presidential-dogs/|archive-date=January 26, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Misty Malarky Ying Yang, daughter Amy Carter's pet – Siamese catStephen Bauer, At Ease in the White House: Social Life as Seen by a Presidential Military Aide, Taylor Trade Publications, 2004. {{ISBN|1-58979-079-0}}. p. 224.
• Elephant – given to his daughter Amy but it was sent to the National zoo

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• Lucky (October 4, 1983 – January 5, 1995) – Bouvier des Flandres{{cite web |url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/pets.html |title=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library |publisher=Reagan.utexas.edu |access-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621234101/http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/pets.html |archive-date=June 21, 2011 |url-status=live }}Stanley Coren, Why Does My Dog Act That Way?, Simon and Schuster, 2007, {{ISBN|0-7432-7707-4}}. p. 6.Stanley Coren, Why We Love the Dogs We Do: How to Find the Dog That Matches Your Personality, Simon and Schuster, 2000, {{ISBN|0-684-85502-X}}. p. 5.
• Rex (December 16, 1984 – August 31, 1998) – Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.Coren, Why Does my Dog..., 7.
• Victory – Golden Retriever
• Peggy – Irish Setter
• Taca – Siberian Husky
• Fuzzy – Belgian sheepdog
• Horses (El Alamein (1971–1998), Nancy D, Baby, Little Man, No Strings and others) at Rancho del Cielo{{Cite news|url=http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/ronald-reagans-ranch-horses/|title=Ronald Reagan's Ranch Horses – Presidential Pet Museum|work=Presidential Pet Museum|access-date=February 4, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205072354/http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/ronald-reagans-ranch-horses/|archive-date=February 5, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/02/President-Reagan-whose-favorite-horse-died-last-month-rode/6523394430400/|title=President Reagan, whose favorite horse died last month, rode...|work=UPI|access-date=February 4, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205072121/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/02/President-Reagan-whose-favorite-horse-died-last-month-rode/6523394430400/|archive-date=February 5, 2018|url-status=live}}
• Cleo and Sara – tortoiseshell cats at Rancho del Cielo{{cite web |title=Ranch |url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/photo-galleries/ranch |website=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library – National Archives and Records Administration |access-date=July 16, 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323011028/https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/photo-galleries/ranch |archive-date=March 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}
• Ronald Reagan II – Fish given by a child{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Kenneth C. |title=Don't Know Much About the Presidents}}

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• Millie (January 12, 1985 – May 19, 1997) – Springer Spaniel.
• Ranger (March 17, 1989 – April 10, 1993) – one of Millie's puppiesSandra Choron, Planet Dog: A Doglopedia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005, {{ISBN|0-618-51752-9}}. p. 21.George H. W. Bush, All the Best, George Bush Simon and Schuster, 2000, p. 595, correspondence from September 10, 1996, {{ISBN|0-7432-0048-9|978-0-7432-0048-6}}

• Socks (March 15, 1989 – February 20, 2009) – Cat
• Buddy (August 7, 1997 – January 2, 2002) – Chocolate Labrador Retriever{{cite web|title=Pets in the White House|url=http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/kids/html/pets.html|work=White House for Kids|publisher=nara.gov|access-date=December 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010220233320/http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/kids/html/pets.html|archive-date=February 20, 2001|url-status=dead}}

• Spot "Spotty" Fetcher (March 17, 1989 – February 21, 2004) – female English Springer Spaniel named after Scott Fletcher; puppy of Millie; euthanized after suffering a series of strokes.
• Barney (September 30, 2000 – February 1, 2013) – Scottish Terrier.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/laura-bush-library-not-monument-her-husband-182824927--politics.html |title=Laura Bush: New library is not 'a monument' to her husband |first1=Holly |last1=Bailey |publisher=Yahoo News |date=April 24, 2013 |access-date=April 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425042858/http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/laura-bush-library-not-monument-her-husband-182824927--politics.html |archive-date=April 25, 2013 |url-status=live }}
• Miss Beazley (October 28, 2004 – May 17, 2014) – Scottish Terrier; nicknamed "Beazley Weazley"; 2005 birthday gift from George to his wife.
• India "Willie" (July 13, 1990 – January 4, 2009) – cat
• Ofelia – Longhorn cow (lives at Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch)

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• Bo (October 9, 2008 – May 8, 2021) – Portuguese Water Dog.
• Sunny (born June 11, 2012) – Portuguese Water Dog.{{cite web|author=Barack Obama|date=August 19, 2013|title=Meet the newest member of the Obama family: Sunny.|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151764689056749&set=a.53081056748.66806.6815841748&type=1&theater|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018213547/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151764689056749&set=a.53081056748.66806.6815841748&type=1&theater|archive-date=October 18, 2015|access-date=August 19, 2013|publisher=Facebook}}{{Cite news|author=Hannah August|date=August 19, 2013|title=Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy|publisher=The White House Blog|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/19/meet-sunny-obamas-new-puppy|url-status=dead|access-date=August 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820013210/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/08/19/meet-sunny-obamas-new-puppy|archive-date=August 20, 2013}}

• 'none''{{cite news|last=Harvard|first=Sarah|date=February 12, 2019|title=Trump explains why he is the only president in 100 years to not have a dog|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dog-family-president-pets-schedule-executive-time-a8775581.html|access-date=February 28, 2021|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=May 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509041233/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dog-family-president-pets-schedule-executive-time-a8775581.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Montgomery |first=Mimi |date=14 August 2024 |title=D.C. might not see a presidential pet in the next administration |url=https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/08/14/pets-white-house-presidential-election-2024 |access-date=23 August 2024 |website=Axios |archive-date=October 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241003113458/https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2024/08/14/pets-white-house-presidential-election-2024 |url-status=live }}

• Champ{{cite web|author=Sophie Vershbow|title=Another Great Thing About Biden's Win: There's Going to Be a Dog in the White House Again!|date=November 7, 2020|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/biden-dog-in-the-white-house|access-date=November 7, 2020|publisher=Vogue|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107165248/https://www.vogue.com/article/biden-dog-in-the-white-house|url-status=live}} (November 11, 2008 – June 19, 2021) – German Shepherd
• Major (born January 17, 2018) – A German Shepherd rescue. Sent to live with family friends in Delaware by December 2021 after several White House biting incidents.
• Commander{{cite news |last=Bennett |first=Kate |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/first-puppy-bidens-white-house/index.html |title=Bidens add to their family with new first puppy – CNNPolitics |publisher=Cnn.com |date= |accessdate=December 20, 2021 |archive-date=December 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220220059/https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/first-puppy-bidens-white-house/index.html |url-status=live }} (born September 1, 2021) – A German Shepherd given to the Bidens as a puppy by the president's brother, also removed from White House after biting incidents.{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/biden-commander-dog-bite-secret-service-e2592d3996381ea82e24a13d6666de77|title=Biden's dog Commander no longer at White House after biting incidents|date=October 5, 2023|website=AP News|access-date=October 5, 2023|archive-date=October 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005130113/https://apnews.com/article/biden-commander-dog-bite-secret-service-e2592d3996381ea82e24a13d6666de77|url-status=live}}
• Willow{{Cite web |author=Kate Bennett |title=As presidential cat, Willow Biden has privileges |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/willow-the-white-house-cat/index.html |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=CNN |date=June 17, 2022 |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920170736/https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/willow-the-white-house-cat/index.html |url-status=live }} – A gray tabby cat who was adopted after the cat jumped onstage during a rally in Pennsylvania in 2020. Willow, who Biden described as having "no limits," often sleeps on top of the president's head.{{cite news |last=Haroun |first=Azmi |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-presidential-cat-willow-sleeps-top-of-head-at-night-2023-1 |title=Biden confirms that White House cat Willow has 'no limits' and sleeps on top of his head at night |work=Business Insider |date=2023-01-26 |accessdate=2023-01-30 |archive-date=June 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630153739/https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-presidential-cat-willow-sleeps-top-of-head-at-night-2023-1 |url-status=live }}
• Celtic – A Mongolian horse given to (then vice-president) Biden as a gift by Sükhbaataryn Batbold, the Prime Minister of Mongolia, in 2011.{{Cite web |last=Madison |first=Lucy |date=2011-08-22 |title=Biden gets a Mongolian horse, names it "Celtic" - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-gets-a-mongolian-horse-names-it-celtic/ |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901123022/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-gets-a-mongolian-horse-names-it-celtic/ |url-status=live }} The horse remained in Mongolia under the care of local handlers.{{cite news |last1=Memoli |first1=Michael A. . |title=For Biden in Mongolia, a horse named Celtic |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-xpm-2011-aug-22-la-pn-for-biden-in-mongolia-a-horse-named-celtic-20110822-story.html |access-date=29 September 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=22 August 2011 |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901123023/https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-xpm-2011-aug-22-la-pn-for-biden-in-mongolia-a-horse-named-celtic-20110822-story.html |url-status=live }}

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• Canadian Parliamentary Cats
• Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
• Pets of Vladimir Putin
• Taiwanese presidential pets
• Horses of Andrew Jackson

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• [https://www.whitehousehistory.org/collections/animal-ambassadors White House Pets: Animal Ambassadors] – The White House Historical Association
• [http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/ Presidential Pets Museum] – Private museum in Glen Allen, Virginia
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20010220233320/http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/kids/html/pets.html Pets in the White House] – White House for Kids (official Clinton archive)
• {{cite news|last1=Thomas|first1=Nick|title=A salute to presidential pets|url=http://newsok.com/a-salute-to-the-presidents-pets/article/5583694/|work=The Oklahoman|date=February 19, 2018|language=en}}

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