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Have any presidents kept unusual pets while residing in the White House?
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are middle-of-the-roaders
when it comes to pets. Each has had the conventional dogs and
cats. But has anything ever slithered or waddled through the
Oval Office? (I heard that! Keep politics out of this.)
Let's see, how about silkworms? Louisa Adams, wife of John
Quincy Adams, raised them. While some presidents have kept
mistresses, in the early 20th century President William Howard
Taft kept a cow. Years ago there were even turkeys at the
White House. (There you go again! I didn't say IN the White
House.)
Teddy Roosevelt, who loved to look at animals when he wasn't
shooting them in large numbers, had a guinea pig named Father
O' Grady and a snake named Emily Spinach. And you thought
the zoo was at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue!
"Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort."
~ Paul Corey
If you are trying to choose between acquiring a shorthaired or a longhaired cat, there are a few points to consider. A shorthaired cat will make fewer demands on your time, because it is able to groom itself. You will spend less time keeping her fur clean and shiny and you will have fewer coat problems, such as matted hair. It will also be easier to tend to wounds and remove parasites.
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