The 29th President not only gave his Airedale Terrier a hand-carved cabinet chair to sit in on high-level meetings, but also threw a birthday at the White House inviting all the neighborhood dogs, where they dined on dog biscuit birthday cake.
W. is the second wartime President to own a high-profile Scottish terrier. Barney is the focus of numerous websites and the star of a series of Barney Cam movies.
It is said that President Ford had a special signal he used to get his golden retriever to wag his tail when he wanted to cut short meetings in the Oval Office.
Coolidge and his wife Grace kept an entire menagerie at their White House. In addition to a pair of white collies, Rob Roy and Prudence Prim, they kept numerous other dogs, plus raccoons, a donkey, a bobcat, canaries, a goose and a mockingbird.
In addition to this German shepherd, the 31st President owned two fox terriers named Big Ben and Sonnie, an elkhound named Weejie and an Irish wolfhound named Patrick.
Given as a gift to the Reagans by the March of Dimes, the Bouvier des Flandres was named after the First Lady's mother. In later years, she had to be moved to the Reagan's California home because she grew too big for the White House.
John F. Kennedy and Shannon, Clipper, Charlie and Wolf
Dog lovers all, the Kennedys built a special play area near the West Wing for their children and the family pets. J.F.K. was the first President to request that his dogs come out to meet the presidential helicopter when he arrived at the White House.