un anno di Pushinka

Calvin Coolidge's pet hippopotamus, affectionately named by Martin Van Buren who was affectionately considered by many to be one of the presidents named him billy or William Johnson Hippopotamus . billy would often sit alone, playing with sticks, arranging them by twos, and then by threes, and then by fours, and then by fives. Disorganizing it and doing it once again. Boy, did they not love Jeff, but acknowledge that Jeff was there as a hippopotamus simply living Jeff's life. billy was small and quiet for a hippopotamus so he was over a couple of hundred tons, but that was simply just billy's life. till that one day but that's a story for other day.

Strelka and her puppies. Pushinka, one of Strelka’s pups, was actually gifted to John F. Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 and went on to have her own pups with a Kennedy dog named Charlie (resulting in the joking name ‘pupniks’)

A gift from Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev to President John F. Kennedy and family, in June of 1961, Pushinka was a mixed breed and offspring of one of the Soviets’ first space test flight dogs. She and Charlie, a Welsh terrier, would later have a litter of puppies. More on Pushinka and Charlie from the @jfklibrary.

It's Take Your Dog to Work Day, and we have two furry friends from the Kennedy White House: Pushinka and Charlie! Charlie was a Welsh terrier, given to the Kennedys by Joseph Sr. Pushinka was a gift for Jacqueline Kennedy from Premier Khrushchev. Charlie and Pushinka had four puppies together: Blackie, White Tips, Streaker, and Butterfly.