John Quincy Adams kept a gator in the East Room White House tub! The French aristocrat and American hero of the Revolutionary war, the Marquis de Lafayette, gave him this snapping souvenir. That's my kind of pet!
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12 cool cats commented:
Well, my goodness. And I thought it was weird that Lautreamont walked his lobster around Paris.
J'ai vu un crocodile lorsque j'étais en kayak de cet été en Floride! Il a été tellement cool! L'amour de la friandise, et la carte postale!
heavens above, thank goodness i have snuffles.
What an interesting tidbit of history! I had never heard this before. I love trivia. Thanks for visiting my recipe blog. Come back anytime and enjoy some southern cooking.
But the problem with a pet of that kind is that sooner or later, you run out of neighborhood pets to feed it.
Oh my ... I think I'll stick with dogs. :o) They're cuter and safer. Plus they can sit in my lap without me *losing* my lap! ha ha
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De Adam's Presidential pet
was got from de bayou, I bet.
When de gator jump, don ya know,
it de final presidential veto!
They say politics is a dog eat dog sport...LOL....guess back then it was even rougher than we thought LOL
WT's family is supposedly connected to the Adams, but I can't seem to prove it with a paper trail.
There are many other interesting facts about presidents and their pets. For instance, Soviet President Mikita Kruschev gave John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline a Welsh Terrier as a gift. The dog was named Pushinka and was a descendant of the famous Russian space dog Strelka.
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LOL And it was and is ...so very appreciated!
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