Teddy Roosevelt’s Wild Pet Collection

While in the White House, Teddy Roosevelt kept an impressive array of pets, including 10 dogs, 5 guinea pigs, 2 cats, a hen and rooster, a macaw, a barn owl, a horned frog, a rat, a rabbit, a snake, and 2 ponies. To make things even more unusual, he also had a badger, a laughing hyena, a bear, and a lion.

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