Former President Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace kept an unusual collection of wild animals at their White House. In addition to a pair of white collies, Rob Roy and Prudence Prim, they kept numerous other dogs, plus raccoons, a donkey, a bobcat, canaries, a goose and a mockingbird.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, holding her pet raccoon. Between 1921 and 1923. (Library of Congress)
Gracie and I just love the names Rob Roy and Prudence Prim!
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