PRESIDENTIAL PETS THROUGH THE AGES

PRESIDENTIAL PETS THROUGH THE AGES

GREENWICH, Conn. (Wireless Flash) -- Although George W. Bush is bringing some of his pets to the White House, his menagerie will be nothing compared to Calvin Coolidge's critters. According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, President Coolidge owned the most bizarre collection of critters, including an antelope, a lion and even a pet hippopotamus. Other presidents with peculiar pets include... -- Thomas Jefferson, who owned a pet bear and a pet mockingbird. -- John Quincy Adams, who had a pet alligator. -- James Buchanan kept an elephant for a pet. -- But Andrew Johnson may have had the lamest collection of pets of any president: A cage of mice.