Even the President had a Terrier
An exhibition unveiled last week at the White House Visitor Center shows a variety of White House animals-in-residence.
The one I like the look of is Fala. A Scottish Terrier owned by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt’s Scottish terrier named Fala has gone down in history as one of the most beloved White House pets. “Roosevelt spoiled him and took him everywhere. He would sit in on meetings with Winston Churchill,” Schank said. As part of the war effort in 1942, it was announced that Fala had given up his rubber bones to promote scrap collection.
The terrier attended Roosevelt’s funeral in 1945. He never really adjusted to the loss of his master. When Fala died in 1952, and was buried in the Rose Garden, next to the sun dial, near his master.
Fala is probably the only president pet to be memorialized with a statue. A statue of Fala stands next to one of his master at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C.
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