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List of U.S. Presidential pets

Below is a list of pets belonging to various US Presidents.

Most data comes from the Presidential Pet Museum.

President Pet(s)
George W. Bush
  • Spot, one of Millie's puppies (see George H. W. Bush below)
  • Barney, Scottish Terrier
  • India, cat
  • Ofelia, Longhorn cow
Bill Clinton
George H. W. Bush
  • Millie, Springer Spaniel
  • Ranger, one of Millie's puppies
Ronald Reagan
  • Lucky, Bouvier des Flandres
  • Rex, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
  • dogs and horses at ranch
Jimmy Carter
  • Grits, dog given to Amy by her teacher that was later returned and
  • Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Amy Carter's Siamese cat
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
  • Checkers, Richard Nixon's dog while vice president, and while he was at the White House
  • Vicky, Poodle
  • Pasha, Terrier
  • King Timahoe, an Irish Setter
Lyndon Johnson
  • Beagle and Little Beagle and Him and Her, all beagles
  • Blanco, a white Collie
  • Yuki, mongrel dog
  • Hamsters and lovebirds
John Kennedy
  • Charlie, Caroline Kennedy's Welsh terrier
  • Tom Kitten, a cat
  • Robin, a canary
  • Bluebell and Marybelle, parakeets
  • Macaroni, Caroline Kennedy's pony
  • Tex and Leprechaun, ponies
  • Debbie and Billie, hamsters
  • Pushinka, Shannon, Wolf, and Clipper, dogs
  • Butterfly, White Tips, Blackie and Streaker, Pushinka and Charlie's pups
  • Zsa Zsa, a rabbit, and Sardar, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy's horse
Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Heidi, Weimaraner dog
Thomas Jefferson
Chester Arthur
Franklin Roosevelt
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
James Garfield
Warren Harding
James Monroe
William Taft
John Tyler
Grover Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Pierce
Millard Fillmore
Harry Truman
Rutherford Hayes
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses Grant
William Harrison
James Polk
Zachary Taylor
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Martin Van Buren
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison