Collection: Presidential Pets

Through the years, the White House has been the home not just to the Presidents and the First Families, but also to a wild assortment of family pets. Some of these animals have been gifted to the White House residents by foreign dignitaries. Presidential pets have included horses, cows, goats, exotic birds, bears, a raccoon, lion cubs, alligators, a wallaby, a pygmy hippopotamus, turkeys, hamsters, a bobcat,