02 in 30 - Sweet Lips

[aggienaut]

   Today I'm leaving at 6am to go do beekeeping up by Redding so this will have to be short and simple.

   I bring you, the top ten most awesome pets of US Presidents! (This is not a complete list of presidential pets or of all the pets of the named presidents, just the awesome ones!)

10 Calvin Coolidge: An antelope?!

9 Jimmy Carter: A siamese cat named "Misty Malarky Ying Yang"

8 George W Bush: A Longhorned Cow named "Ofelia"

7 Abraham Lincoln: Actually had a dog named "Fido"

6 Theodore Roosevelt: A one legged rooster. Also a badger among other things.

5 John Adams: Dog named "Satan"

4 James Garfield: Dog named "Veto"

3 George Washington: Dogs named "Sweet Lips" (!?) "Drunkard," and "Tipsy"

2 McKinley: Parrot named "Washington Post"

and the winner...

1 Benjamin Harrison (there was such a president?!): two possums named "Mr Reciprocity" and "Mr Protection".


(Hey possums are currently winning in the poll on what I should blog about (= )

Complete list here. So many early presidents had things like alligators, donkeys and roosters I didn't incldue them in my list!
   Recall also that I had mentioned that Socks the famous Clinton cat has been discarded by the Clintons ... because they're insenstive monsters!!




Picture of the Day

My pet chicken.

Comments

[neugotik.livejournal.com]

Andrew Johnson Fed white mice he found in his bedroom LOL funny. I also like the dog names. Satan? Veto? With these modern times I think it's less likely to find such dark humor/wit in presidents - it would cost them writeups in rag magazines!

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

And I'm sure tehre's no longer random mice in the presidential bedroom )=

[neugotik.livejournal.com]

yeh I donno- mice are tricksie. Despite cats & poison they seem to get into places - may not last long, but they get in & about.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Soon I will have to write up the story of the midnight swim the above featured chicken took. BTW, her name is Big Bird.

[ashael.livejournal.com]

Chickin! I had a pet chicken named Mutatia, who had five toes in each foot and was white instead of brown (She was a Phoenix chicken).

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Did it have special powers?

[metalphoenix.livejournal.com]

Dude, an antelope? That's hilarious. Win, CC, WIN.

Actually, no wait, JC wins with the Misty Malarky Ying Yang name. I love that man.

"Ofelia" ?? I really hope that was intentional, and not a misspelling of Ophelia. But I doubt it.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah I doubt the misspelling on Ofelia was intentional.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Teddy Roosevelt's one legged rooster should have met our one armed hems. Now ONE one-armed hen could be attributed to a mutation but the fact that there were two of them bespeaks of a terrible and hideous event. You would be right in surmising that. All I'll say is that a close relative of either Mr. Reciprocity or Mr. Protection was indicated. And judging from the name, I would suggest that it wasn't Mr. Protection.

[ajsmoothcrow.livejournal.com]

where are you staying this evening on your trek back

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

We drove through the night! O=