Although our first President, George Washington, never lived in the White House - it was not completed until the administration of our second president, John Adams. President John Adams is credited with owning the first Presidential Pets: two mixed breed dogs, named Juno and Satan. John Adams' tenure in the White House was short-lived (he lost reelection later that year), but many dogs and cats have served as First Pets ever since. John Adams' son, President John Quincy Adams, received an alligator as a gift from France's Marquis de Lafayette.

In A T-Boy Journey into the Curious Case of Dark Nursery Rhymes – we took you into the world of joyful children’s nursery rhymes. But, when we looked deeply into their core, many of the soothing melodies and their haunting rhyming schemes, are bleak, sinister and deathly macabre. In Part II, our journey continues with more of the same, but found others that might have a deep effect when you sleep: Three Blind Mice, later adapted as a calypso version in James Bond film; Jack and Jill, not the power couple we had thought; The Real-Life Story of Humpty Dumpty and the English Civil War; Rub-a-Dub-Dub and how we might find that we are not as a clean as we thought; and we close with Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater which leads us to an Audrey Hart recipe for a delicious Thanksgiving pie.

Many of America's presidents have found friendship and solace in their pets. It's a tradition that goes all the way back to founding father, President George Washington, the founding father who also bred foxhounds. As of today, 46 U.S. Presidents have had pets while they resided in the White House. And, like many of us today, the pets became part of their families, offering courage, patience, forgiveness, unconditional love and comfort, particularly during stressful periods for president in office.