In light of this week’s newest four-legged White House resident please check out mental_floss’s Top 5 Bizarre Presidential pets, like…

Herbert Hoover wanted to put a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, and…a gator in the Oval Office? It’s true. Hoover owned a slew of dogs, but those weren’t his only pets. His second son, Allan Henry Hoover, owned a pair of gators that were occasionally allowed to wander around the White House grounds. [mental_floss]

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