Silkworms, parrots, bears and a bobcat.
Lion cubs, lovebirds, a pygmy hippo and a zebra.
They've all lived at the White House. Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, had crowds of dogs, including Airedales, collies, chows and a bulldog named Boston Beans. He also had a wallaby, a pair of lion cubs, an antelope and a pygmy hippo. Thomas Jefferson kept grizzly bears in a cage. When John Quincy Adams was president, an alligator stayed in the East Room for a while.