Pets in the white house?

While this term Donald Trump does not keep any animals in the Whitehouse, it is a longstanding tradition that the president have a pet. And while Trump currently does not have a pooch friend, many of his predecessors back to the Washingtons did. Its personally hard for me to imagine how one like myself might bring my two horses to the white house but there has been a wide variety of animals that have resided in the white house before. Here is a list of some of the most abstract and interesting ones so far.

#1 Alligators in the white house?--> This was the case not only during President  John Quincy Adams term but also Herbert Hoover's. Adams who had been gifted an alligator apparently by Lafayette reportedly kept his alligator in the bathtub. Herbert Hoover's son Allan was another who had some alligator companions. Allan had two alligators which were apparently allowed to occasionally roam the white house grounds

#2 Not to be outdone by her husbands outlandish pets including his alligators, Mrs. Louisa Adams has little silkworms as pets, presumably to make her own silk for her dresses and clothing.

#3 A pygmy hippo!--> Of all the presidents with pets Calvin Coolidge was probably the most famous for what was called the "Coolidge Zoo". Coolidge had dogs, donkeys, cats, goose, 2 BABY LION CUBS, and the main attraction; a pygmy hippo by the name of Billy. Billy was from Liberia and a gift to president Coolidge from Firestone. Coolidge donated Billy to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, and since then Billy has fathered 23 little baby hippos.

#4  An elephant at the white house! James Buchanan who was president for (1857-1861) had received a herd of elephants from the king of Siam. This was interesting as while in the past congress had made people like Lyndon B Johnson donate their animals such as LBJ's tiger cubs, congress allowed Buchanan to even keep one of his elephants on site

#5 Apparently Washingtons, George's wife as well as James's Madison's wife both had pet Parrots. While not super abstract this was funny at the current time

#6 Another animal George had was a bunch of dogs. Washington was known for having many dogs some of which were named "drunkard" and "sweet lips"

#7 In another unfortunate case of naming, Abigail Adams had two dogs one of which was named Juno and the other SATAN. Not exactly the most warm and inviting dog name like Fido.

#8During WW1 the white house had sheep! Under the rule of Woodrow Wilson during the years of the first world war, the white house was not only home to the royal family, but the front yard was a home to a group of sheep who not only helped provide clothing for people fighting the war etc but also to help keep the grass clean.

#9 Thomas Jefferson during his presidency had a pet Mockingbird

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/11/07/mf.presidential.pets/index.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/05/white-house-pets_n_2625671.html