List of pets in the White House

The White House Pet List includes animals kept in the White House by him or his family during the tenure of a President of the United States .

list

president	Animals	photos
George Washington	Drunkard, Mopsey, Taster, Cloe, Tipsy, Tipler, Forester, Captain, Lady Rover, Vulcan, Sweetlips, Scentwell and Searcher: dogs Cornwall: Greyhound Royal Gift: donkey Nelson , Blueskin, Samson, Steady, Traveler, Magnolia: Horses Parrots
John Adams	Juno, Mark and Satan: Dogs Cleopatra and Caesar: horses
Thomas Jefferson	Buzzy: Briard Dick: Mockingbird two bear cubs Caractacus: horse
James Madison	Polly: Ara
James Monroe	a spaniel Sebastian: Siberian husky
John Quincy Adams	an alligator Silkworms
Andrew Jackson	Polly: Parrot that could curse Sam Patch, Emily, Lady Nashville, Bolivia and Thruxton: Horses
Martin Van Buren	had just two tiger cubs, which he by the Sultan of Oman was given
William Henry Harrison	Billy: goat Sukey: cow
John Tyler	Le Beau: Italian Greyhound Johnny Ty: Canary The General: horse two Irish Wolfhounds
James K. Polk	a horse
Zachary Taylor	Old Whitey: war horse Apollo: former circus horse
Millard Fillmore	Mason and Dixon: ponies
Franklin Pierce	oriental dogs japanese birds
James Buchanan	Lara: Newfoundland dog Punch: English Toy Terrier two eagles
Abraham Lincoln	Nanny and Nanko: goats Jack: Turkey Fido : dog Jip: dog Tabby and Dixie: cats a rabbit a horse a domestic pig	Dog Fido, 1860
Andrew Johnson	fed mice that lived in his bedroom
Ulysses S. Grant	Butcher Boy, Cincinnatus, Egypt, Jeff Davis, Jennie, Julia, Mary and St. Louis: Horses Billy Button and Reb: ponies Faithful: Newfoundland dog Rosie: Dog a parrot
Rutherford B. Hayes	Old Whitey (1849 - March 20, 1879): horse Cows Grim: Greyhound Dot: English Cocker Spaniel Hector: Newfoundland dog Duke: Mastiff Otis: Miniature Schnauzer Juno and Jeep: hunting dogs Jet: dog Piccolomini: cat Siam and Miss Pussy: Siamese cats a goat Canaries	Old Whitey retired
James A. Garfield	Veto: Newfoundland dogs Kit: horse
Chester A. Arthur	three horses
Grover Cleveland	Hector: Poodle Birds
Benjamin Harrison	Dash: Collie Old Whiskers : domestic goat Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection: Opossums	Harrison with Grandchildren, Dash and Old Whiskers
William McKinley	Washington Post: Double Yellow-Headed Amazon Valeriano Weyler and Enrique DeLome: Angora cats Taps
Theodore Roosevelt	Admiral Dewey, Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, Father O'Grady, Fighting Bob Evans: Guinea Pigs Algonquin and Feldety: ponies Renown, Roswell, Rusty, Jocko, Root, Gray, Dawn, Wyoming, Yangenka, General and Judge: Horses Baron Spreckle: Hen Bill: lizard Jack and Peter: Terrier Blackjack: Manchester Terrier Emily: snake Gem and Susan: dogs Eli: Ara Pete: Bull Terrier Skip: Rat Terrier Jonathan Edwards: Bear Jonathan: Rat Josiah: Badger Manchu: Pekingese Maude: domestic pig Peter: Rabbit Rollo: St. Bernard Skip: mixed breed Sailor Boy: Chesapeake Bay Retriever Tom Quartz and Slippers: Cats a hyena	The Roosevelt family with the Rat Terrier Skip Teddy Roosevelt , the son of Theodore Roosevelt, with the Blauara Eli Yale, 1902 Son Archie Roosevelt with the Algonquin pony, 1902
William Howard Taft	Caruso: dog Mooly Wooly and Pauline Wayne : cows	William Howard Taft's cow Pauline in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, 1920
Woodrow Wilson	Davie: Airedale Terrier Old Ike: Sheep Puffins: cat Mountain Boy: Greyhound Bruce: Bull Terrier Birds
Warren G. Harding	Laddie Boy (1920-1929): Airedale Terrier Old Boy: Bulldog Pete: Canary	Laddie boy Old boy
Calvin Coolidge	Rob Roy and Prudence Prim: White Collies Peter Pan: Fox Terrier Paul Pry: Airedale Terrier Calamity Jane: Shetland Sheepdog Tiny Tim and Blackberry: Chow Chows Ruby Rouch: Collie Boston Beans: English Bulldog King Cole: German Shepherd Dog Bessie: Collie Palo Alto: dog Ebeneezer: Donkey Nip, tuck and snowflake: canaries Enoch: Goose Tiger and Blacky: cats Rebecca and Horace: Raccoons Smoky: Lynx Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau: Lion Cubs Billy: pygmy hippo , that the National Zoological Park was left a wallaby an antelope an American black bear	Grace Coolidge with Rob Roy, 1924 Grace Coolidge with the raccoon Rebecca
Herbert Hoover	King Tut: Belgian Shepherd Dog Pat: German shepherd Big Ben and Sonnie: Fox Terriers Glen: Scottish Shepherd Dog Yukonan: Canadian Eskimo Dog Patrick: Irish Wolfhound Eaglehurst Gillette: English Setter Weejie: Norwegian Elkhound two alligators	Herbert Hoover and King Tut
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Fala (April 7, 1940 to April 5, 1952): Scottish Terrier President: Great Dane Blaze: Bullmastiff Tiny: Bobtail Winks: English setter Meggie: Scottish Terrier Major: German Shepherd	Franklin D. Roosevelt with Fala Roosevelt and Falas statue at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
Harry S. Truman	Feller: English Cocker Spaniel Mike: Irish Red Setter
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Heidi: Weimaraner Gabby: Budgie	Eisenhower with Heidi shortly after a press conference in the White House, 1959
John F. Kennedy	Pushinka: mongrel , gift from the Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev Wolf: Mixed breed, part of Irish Wolfhound Butterfly, White Tips, Blackie and Streaker: Pushinka's puppies Clipper: German Shepherd Shannon: English Cocker Spaniel Gaullie: Poodle Charlie: Welsh Terrier Moe: Doberman Pinscher Tom Kitten: cat Robin: Canary Bluebell and Marybell: Parrots Macaroni, Tex and Leprechaun: ponies Debbie and Billie: hamsters Zsa Zsa: rabbit Sardar: horse	The Kennedy family with their dogs
Lyndon B. Johnson	Him and Her: Beagles J. Edgar: Beagle Freckles: Beagle Blanco: white collie Yuki: Mixed breed hamster Birds	Lyndon B. Johnson with his dog Him
Richard Nixon	Checkers (1952 to 1964): English Cocker Spaniel Vicki: Poodle Pasha: Yorkshire Terrier King Timahoe: Irish Red Setter	Nixon's dogs: King Timahoe, Vicki and Pasha
Gerald Ford	Liberty (1974-1984): Golden Retriever Misty: Golden Retriever, daughter of Liberty Lucky: mixed breed Shan: Siamese cat	Susan Ford with the Siamese cat Shan, 1974 Gerald Ford with his dog Liberty
Jimmy Carter	Grits: Border Collie , gift to daughter Amy from her teacher, but returned shortly afterwards Lewis Brown: Afghan Hound Misty Malarky Ying Yang: Siamese cat Sleepy: hamster	Amy Carter with her cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang, 1978
Ronald Reagan	Lucky: Flemish cattle dog Rex (1984-1998): Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Victory: Golden Retriever Peggy: Irish Red Setter Taca: Siberian husky Fuzzy: Belgian Shepherd Dog	Dog rex
George HW Bush	Millie (born January 12, 1985, † May 19, 1997): English Springer Spaniel (her biography sold more often than that of her master) Ranger (born March 17, 1989, † April 6, 1993): English Springer Spaniel, son of Millie	Dog Millie
Bill Clinton	Socks (* late 1990 / early 1991, † February 20, 2009): cat Buddy (born August 7, 1997, † January 2, 2002): Labrador Retriever	Cat socks
George W. Bush	Spot "Spotty" Fetcher (* March 17, 1989, † February 21, 2004): English Springer Spaniel, daughter of Millie and thus the only "First Dog" in the second generation. India (born July 13, 1990, † January 4, 2009): American Shorthair cat Barney (born September 30, 2000, † February 1, 2013): Scottish Terrier Miss Beazley (born October 28, 2004, † May 17, 2014): Scottish Terrier	"Spotty" in the jump The American Shorthair cat India
Barack Obama	Bo (born October 9, 2008): Portuguese water dog Sunny (born June 11, 2012): Portuguese water dog	The Obama's two dogs
Donald Trump	no pets

annotation

↑ Pets are those animals that people keep with them. Domesticated animal species, on the other hand, are referred to as pets - in contrast to wild animals .

↑ George Washington himself never lived in the White House, but is still listed for the sake of completeness.

literature

Sandra Choron, Planet Dog: A Doglopedia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . 2005, ISBN 0-618-51752-9 , pp. 20ff.

Web links

Commons : Pets of the US Presidents - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Presidential Pets Museum (English)
USA: The "First Pets" in the White House. Handelsblatt . Retrieved June 22, 2015.
Famous White House cats. crsqa.com. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
Astrid Wehling: Four Paws and the White House. Wirtschaftswetter.de. January 20, 2009. Retrieved June 22, 2015.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r WHITE HOUSE PETS (1789–1850) (English). presidentialpetmuseum.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
^ ^A ^b Alissa Wolf: First Pets: A History of Critters in the White House. In: petshops.about.com. Retrieved July 20, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Aynsley Kindig: Bobtail Deliveries Dallas: Presidential Pets of the Past. In: Dallas Courier Blog. Dallas Courier, December 11, 2014, accessed July 20, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Pamela Redmond Satran: Do You Have a Dog in This Election? Pets Are Presidential. In: US News. November 5, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2015 (The support of dogs and their owners may be crucial to the candidates.).
^ The Dogs of President James Monroe (English). doggybuddy.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f White House: A Look Back: Pets in the White House. In: whitehouse.gov. The White House, accessed July 20, 2015 (English, photo gallery).
↑ https://beesfirstappearance.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/harding/
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m White House: Presidential Pets. In: whitehouse.gov. The White House, accessed July 20, 2015 (English, photo gallery).
^ Laurie Bogart Morrow: The Giant Book of Dog Names . Simon and Schuster, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-6691-5 , p. 414 (English, digitized from Google Books [accessed on July 20, 2015] "Wolf [...] President John F. Kennedy's Irish Wolfhound-Schnauzer mix.").
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Dogs, cats and other animals in the White House. From First Dogs and First Cats of the First Family. In: hund-foto.de. Retrieved November 19, 2016 .
^ ^A ^b John F. Kennedy Biography. presidentialpetmuseum.com. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
↑ http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/photos/article/First-Pets-the-furry-friends-of-US-Presidents-732764.php#photo-388414
↑ http://presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/ranger-bush-dog
↑ World author kami: White House: Sunny - Second dog moves in with the Obamas. In: The world. August 20, 2013, accessed July 23, 2015 .
↑ Hannah August: Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy. In: whitehouse.gov. The White House, August 19, 2013, accessed July 23, 2015 .

[1] Pets are those animals that people keep with them. Domesticated animal species, on the other hand, are referred to as pets - in contrast to wild animals .

[2] George Washington himself never lived in the White House, but is still listed for the sake of completeness.

[museum-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r WHITE HOUSE PETS (1789–1850) (English). presidentialpetmuseum.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

[Wolf-4] A ^b Alissa Wolf: First Pets: A History of Critters in the White House. In: petshops.about.com. Retrieved July 20, 2015 .

[Kindig-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Aynsley Kindig: Bobtail Deliveries Dallas: Presidential Pets of the Past. In: Dallas Courier Blog. Dallas Courier, December 11, 2014, accessed July 20, 2015 .

[Satran-6] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Pamela Redmond Satran: Do You Have a Dog in This Election? Pets Are Presidential. In: US News. November 5, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2015 (The support of dogs and their owners may be crucial to the candidates.).

[doggybuddy-7] The Dogs of President James Monroe (English). doggybuddy.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

[white_house_pets-8] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f White House: A Look Back: Pets in the White House. In: whitehouse.gov. The White House, accessed July 20, 2015 (English, photo gallery).

[9] ttps://beesfirstappearance.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/harding/

[presidential_pets-10] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m White House: Presidential Pets. In: whitehouse.gov. The White House, accessed July 20, 2015 (English, photo gallery).

[Morrow-11] Laurie Bogart Morrow: The Giant Book of Dog Names . Simon and Schuster, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-6691-5 , p. 414 (English, digitized from Google Books [accessed on July 20, 2015] "Wolf [...] President John F. Kennedy's Irish Wolfhound-Schnauzer mix.").

[hund-foto-12] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Dogs, cats and other animals in the White House. From First Dogs and First Cats of the First Family. In: hund-foto.de. Retrieved November 19, 2016 .

[jfk-13] A ^b John F. Kennedy Biography. presidentialpetmuseum.com. Retrieved November 19, 2016.

[14] ttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/photos/article/First-Pets-the-furry-friends-of-US-Presidents-732764.php#photo-388414

[15] ttp://presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/ranger-bush-dog

[welt-sunny-16] World author kami: White House: Sunny - Second dog moves in with the Obamas. In: The world. August 20, 2013, accessed July 23, 2015 .

[whitehouse-sunny-17] Hannah August: Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy. In: whitehouse.gov. The White House, August 19, 2013, accessed July 23, 2015 .