Gifts for Animal Lovers

The Christmas holidays at Mount Vernon were a happy time, bringing together family and friends, good food, and freedom from work. George and Martha...

Liberty is a fictional cat featured in the children's story Where Was George Washington? by Carla Heymsfeld. Liberty's popularity has grown so over...

George Washington imported a number of hounds from England in 1770, and then in 1785 he received French foxhounds from the Marquis de Lafayette. Th...

“If You Want a Friend in Washington: Wacky, Wild & Wonderful Presidential Pets.” By Erin McGill.  ISBN:  978-0-593-12269-3. Copyright 2020. Har...

The Washingtons raised a variety of domesticated fowl, including chickens and turkeys, to supply their table with both meat and eggs. Care of these...

Mount Vernon was home to many sheep in George Washington’s time. His flock numbered from 600 to 1,000 which provided wool for clothing and blankets...

Of all the farm animals that now call Mount Vernon home, none is rarer than the Ossabow Island hog. Over a period of two decades,  Washington’s est...

This soft, stuffed horse and the frisky horse pictured on the t-shirt both have brown coats and black manes and tail. The image on the yellow shirt...

Presidential Pets: The Weird, Wacky, Little, Big, Scary, Strange Animals That Have Lived in the White House. By Julie Moberg. Illustrated by Jeff A...

Ronald Reagan was America's president from 1981 until 1989. The president's favorite dog was a golden retriever who lived at the Reagans' Californi...

America's first president, George Washington, served from 1789 to 1797. Royal Gift was the name of the prized Spanish donkey that he acquired to li...

Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States from 1901-1909. On January 29, 1901 he wrote to his children from Keystone Ranch telling them...

John Quincy Adams was President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. A pet alligator was a surprise gift to the president. Adams found a home fo...

John F. Kennedy was America's president from 1961 to 1963. A pony, named Macaroni, was a gift from Lyndon Johnson to the president's daughter Carol...

President George H. W. Bush served from 1989 to 1993. A book "written" by Millie, the President's English Springer Spaniel, reached the top spot on...

Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. In 1966, then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover gifted President Johnson with a bea...

Bill Clinton was the U.S. President from 1993 to 2001. When Buddy, a chocolate Labrador Retriever puppy, arrived at the White House, Clinton's spok...

George Washington imported a number of hounds from England in 1770 and then in 1785, he received French foxhounds from the Marquis de Lafayette. Th...

Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States from 1923 to 1929. The Coolidge family menagerie included a bobcat, a goose, a donkey, a cat, tw...

John F. Kennedy was America's president from 1961 to 1963. Clipper was a big, beautiful German Shepherd who was given to First Lady Jackie Kennedy ...

John F. Kennedy was President of the United States from 1961 tp 1963. The Kennedy family had horses, dogs, birds, hamsters, a cat, and a gray rabbi...

Bill Clinton was the US President from 1993 to 2001. Socks, the Clinton family cat, was popular with the press as well as with his family. He appea...

The 25th President of the United States, President William McKinley, served from 1897-1901. He owned a yellow-headed Mexican parrot named Washingto...

George W. Bush was President of the United States from 2001 until 2009. One of his animals was Ofelia, a longhorn, who lived on the family ranch in...