President T. Roosevelt 1901-1909

President Roosevelt’s love of animals was shown as Roosevelt was examining the tiny badger, it began to nibble on his finger. He was delighted. “Bother politics,” Roosevelt said. “This last day in Kansas is the best of them all.” When Roosevelt’s train left Sharon Springs, the little badger took up residence in the presidential car. He dined on milk and potatoes and slept in a cage. “I rather think you will like Josiah the badger,” Roosevelt said in a letter to his children while in California. “So far he is very good tempered and waddles around everywhere like a little bear.” Once at the White House, Josiah became a celebrity pet to Ethel, 12, and Archibald, 9, two of Roosevelt’s children. He had the run of the presidential mansion. Ethel Roosevelt would write in her journal on Aug. 21, 1903: Josiah “is always amusing us with his antics, like shredding the furniture with his sharp little claws, or chasing the gardener up a tree. Father just throws his head back and laughs his booming laugh.” The pet badger lived with Roosevelt’s menagerie of other animals — 10 dogs, two cats, two ponies, a hog, a garter snake, five guinea pigs, a rat, a macaw, a hen and a one-legged rooster. But as Josiah grew and aged, he developed an ugly temper. He could be heard “hissing like a teakettle.” In less than a year, Josiah was sent off to Bronx Zoo in New York where he lived out the remainder of his life. “It’s a sad day here,” Ethel Roosevelt wrote in her journal on the day Josiah was sent to the zoo. “Father says we can visit Josiah anytime we want, but it won’t be the same without him. “Father also said if the Republicans ever throw him out, he might start his own party and call it The Badger Party, and we all think that would be just bully!” He didn’t. Roosevelt left the White House in 1909. Three years later, he helped form the Progressive Party, which was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party

The T. Roosevelt Badger

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