Among their more conventional pets were dogs, cats, birds, raccoons, and a white collie named Rob Roy who frequently appeared in official White House portraits with the president. Perhaps the most ...

“The Joy of Cooking,” considered the kitchen bible, featured instructions for raccoon carcasses throughout the 1900s, according to Atlas Obscura. In 1926, a Mississippi woman sent President Calvin ...

5. Calvin Coolidge kept a pet raccoon named Rebecca in the White House, originally sent as a gift for Thanksgiving dinner but instead adopted as a pet. Claude (Image credit: Future) ...

My friend’s father loves to tell stories about how his family had pet raccoons when he was growing up. It wasn’t until he produced photographic evidence that I actually believed him. Images of ...

And it is worth noting that Calvin Coolidge went to the grave himself not long afterward without having ever tasted raccoon meat. For Thanksgiving or otherwise. Holy Cow!

¶ On Christmas Day, President Coolidge was astir before 7 a.m. Going out on the rear grounds of the White House, he greeted his pet raccoon, who wore his gift, a gleaming collar bearing the ...

Wickedpedia Why did Calvin Coolidge pardon a raccoon for Thanksgiving — and keep it as a pet? “Coolidge Has Raccoon; Probably Won’t Eat It,” one contemporary Boston Herald headline blared.

Marco Tomasini – stock.adobe.com A chapter on raccoons covers Rebecca, an adorable mask-faced creature that was gifted to President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 to be cooked for Thanksgiving.

We learn about Rebecca, Calvin Coolidge’s pet raccoon, and Hoover, a talking seal. The more outlandish details include a Nazi propaganda campaign to use migrating storks as carriers.