Presidential Pets!

The race for President is sooooo close, and it means new pets in that white house in D.C.! You know, the really big one!

So here is a nice little site the Whitehouse has about Presidential Pets from 1959-2000, http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/holiday/historicalpets3/index.html

Photo from Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Center

Did you know that Eisenhower had a Weimaraner? Neither did we!

For a more complete list Wikipedia has one...but of course you must take it all with a grain of salt because it is on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_pets

There is a really fun little Presidential pet quiz here http://www.biography.com/animalographies/presidential-pets-quiz.jsp
Questions like, which President owned a raccoon? Which one owned an alligator? Yup there are some funny ones there.

The White House Kids site has a similar quiz here,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/cgi-bin/quiz.cgi/pets but no animation or pictures like the one above.

We found out that if Barack Obama wins the Presidency he promised his two daughters a puppy...but one of them is allergic. Any suggestions out there for a puppy that would not flare up allergies?
John McCain of course has a flock of animals that are ready for the Whitehouse, not sure if he could possibly own any more than he has! :)

Happy Monday all!