Audrey Hepburn and her deer
Audrey Hepburn and a baby deer named Pippin (or “Ip,” as she called it) had to work together while filming the 1959 adventure romance Green Mansions.
For the sake of the film, Hepburn was persuaded to take care of the baby, and the two quickly became super close. She shared a bed with the deer, fed it from a baby bottle, and even took it to parties and shopping with her.
Hepburn was devastated to have to part ways with Ip after filming; therefore, she adopted the deer as a pet.
Marquis de Lafayette and his American alligator
In 1825 Lafayette brought his pet gator with him to the White House, and the reptile was temporarily housed in a bathtub in the East Room.
Naturally, the presence of the gator was, to put it mildly, unsettling to practically everyone in the White House, especially in the early days when people would unexpectedly enter the restroom and experience a major surprise.
Yet, according to some people, Quincy Adams thought the situation to be quite humorous. However, the gator left the White House with Lafayette, who took his strange pet with him.
Teddy Roosevelt and his multiple unusual pets
Theodore Roosevelt’s family brought an army of pets into the White House when he took office in 1901. Bill the lizard, Eli Yale the blue macaw, Baron Spreckle the hen, Maude the pig, a one-legged rooster, a barn owl, and several guinea pigs, including Admiral Dewey and Fighting Bob Evans, were among them.
On top of that, the Roosevelts also had a hyena named Bill, a small black bear named Jonathan Edwards, and a badger named Josiah as pets. Isn’t that cute? A true animal lover!
Calvin Coolidge and his raccoon
A live raccoon was sent to President Calvin Coolidge by some of his supporters in November 1926 so that the first family could slaughter it and consume it for Thanksgiving dinner.
Of course that didn’t happen because the Coolidge family chose to keep the animal as a pet rather than sacrifice it. After giving it the name Rebecca and building a tiny house for it, they let it roam the White House and its surrounding grounds.
Kirstie Alley and her lemurs
When it comes to odd, exotic pets, Kirstie Alley’s lemurs are the best, especially after it was revealed that she has fourteen of them.
Of course, everybody asked why. In a recent interview, she said that she started out having lemurs because they are great animals, and she was also interested in conservation in Madagascar.
Since Los Angeles and Madagascar have similar climate types, it is very easy to take care of lemurs and give them everything they need.
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