President

Animals

George Washington

Polly the parrot, Horses, and Several hound dogs.

John Adams

Horses

Thomas Jefferson

Mockingbird and Bear Cubs (a gift from Lewis and Clark)

James Madison

Macaw the parrot and sheep

James Monroe

a spaniel

John Quincy Adams

an alligator; silkworms

Andrew Jackson

Horses, Pol the parrot, and ponies

Martin
Van Buren

two tiger cubs

William Henry Harrison

a goat and a cow

John Tyler

Le Beau, a greyhound, and a horse named The General

James Knox Polk

a horse

Zachary Taylor

Old Whitey the horse

Millard Fillmore

no pets

Franklin Pierce

no pets

James Buchanan

Lara, (a Newfoundland), an eagle, and an elephant

Abraham Lincoln

Jack the turkey; goats named Nanny and Nanko; ponies; cats; dogs; pigs; a white rabbit

Andrew Johnson

white mice

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Rutherford B. Hayes

Siam, a Siamese cat; Grim, a greyhound; Duke, an English mastiff; Hector, a Newfoundland; Dot, a terrier; canaries; cows; horses; goats; other dogs

James Garfield

Kit the horse; Veto the dog; fish

Chester Alan Arthur

no pets

Grover Cleveland

a poodle; canaries and mockingbirds

Benjamin Harrison

Dash the dog; Whiskers the goat; dogs; an opossum

William McKinley

a parrot; an Angora cat and her kittens

Theodore Roosevelt

Sailor Boy, a Chesapeake Bay retriever; Manchu, a Pekingese; Skip, a mutt; terriers named Jack and Pete; cats named Tom Quartz and Slippers; Josiah the badger; Algonquin the pony; Eli the macaw; Jonathan the piebald rat; Emily Spinach, a garter snake; twelve horses; five bears; five guinea pigs; other snakes; two kangaroo rats; lizards; roosters; an owl; a flying squirrel; a raccoon; a coyote; a lion; a hyena; a zebra

William Taft

Pauline Wayne the cow

Woodrow Wilson

Old Ike the ram; sheep; chickens; cats

Warren Harding

Laddie Boy, an Airedale; Old Boy, a bulldog; canaries

Calvin Coolidge

Peter Pan, a terrier; Paul Pry (née Laddie Buck), an Airedale; Calamity Jane, a sheepdog; Boston Beans, a bulldog; King Cole, a shepherd; Palo Alto, a birder; collies named Rob Roy (née Oshkosh), Prudence Prim, Ruby Rough, and Bessie; chows named Blackberry and Tiny Tim; canaries named Nip, Tuck, and Snowflake; cats named Bounder, Tiger, and Blacky; raccoons named Rebecca and Horace; Ebeneezer, a donkey; Smokey, a bobcat; Old Bill, a thrush; Enoch, a goose; a mockingbird; a bear; an antelope; a wallaby; a pygmy hippo; some lion cubs

Herbert Hoover

Glen, a collie; Yukon, a malamute; Patrick, an Irish wolfhound; Eaglehurst Gillette, a setter; Weejie, an elkhound; fox terriers named Big Ben and Sonnie; shepherds named King Tut and Pat; an opossum

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Fala, a Scottish terrier; Meggie, a Scottish terrier; Major, a German shepherd; Winks, a Llewellyn setter; Tiny, an English sheepdog; President, a Great Dane; Blaze, a mastiff

Harry S Truman

Feller “the unwanted dog” (adopted by Truman's personal physician); Mike, an Irish setter (belonged to Margaret Truman)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Heidi, a Weimaraner

John F. Kennedy

Tom Kitten the cat; Robin the canary; Zsa Zsa the rabbit; Sardar the horse; ponies named Macaroni, Tex, and Leprechaun; parakeets named Bluebell and Marybelle; hamsters named Debbie and Billie; Charlie, a Welsh terrier, plus dogs named Pushinka, Shannon, Wolf, and Clipper, plus Pushinka and Charlie's pups: Blackie, Butterfly, Streaker, and White Tips

Lyndon Johnson

Him and Her, beagles; Freckles, a beagle (Him's pup); Blanco, a collie; Edgar, a mutt (née J. Edgar); Yuki, a mutt; hamsters and lovebirds

Richard Nixon

Checkers, a cocker spaniel; Vicky, a poodle; Pasha, a terrier; King Timahoe, an Irish setter; fish

Gerald Ford

Liberty, a Golden retriever; Chan, a Siamese Cat

Jimmy Carter

Grits the dog; Misty Malarky Ying Yang, a Siamese cat

Ronald Reagan

Rex, a King Charles spaniel; Lucky, a Bouvier des Flandres sheepdog

George Bush

Millie, a Springer spaniel; Ranger, one of Millie's pups

Bill Clinton

Socks the cat; Buddy, a chocolate Labrador retriever

George W. Bush

Spot, a Springer spaniel; Barney, a Scottish terrier; India (“Willie”) the cat. The Bushes' orange-striped polydactyl cat Ernie was judged too wild for White House life and now lives with a family in California.