3. A Hyena, A One-Legged Rooster And A Crazy Badger Named Josiah (Theodore Roosevelt)
Bizarrely, Roosevelt infamously shot a defenceless black bear while on a hunting trip to Mississippi in 1902. This event left Roosevelt a legacy he came to hate - that of being linked to stuffed toy bears and a nickname of "Teddy". Interestingly though, the 26th President (1901-1909) also kept a black bear named Jonathan Edwards at the White House - to accompany his hyena and his barn owl, presumably... Yet the pet Roosevelt is most famed for keeping at the White House was his badger named Josiah. The badger had been thrown at the President while his train was pulling away from a station in Kansas and one of his entourage caught the animal, before Roosevelt decided to keep it. Josiah turned out to be an aggressive creature, though, and would regularly snap at the heels of White House visitors... Among the many other animals Roosevelt kept at the White House were a lizard named bill, a garter snake called Emily Spinach - as well as a one-legged rooster who would hop around the grounds.