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Cats still infrequent pets highest individual states. For example, of the 44 US presidents cats had only 7, and in the twentieth century Russian rulers from 11 - 3. Blog Interpreter brought leaders of some countries with their cats.

Known ethnologist Konrad Lorenz said: "The cat is not a social animal activity, it is not my prisoner, it's just an independent being with an almost equal status, who have to live in the same place where I live and I". This craving for independence and autonomy expressed great Rudyard Kipling in his famous saying: "The most savage of all wild animals - a cat. She walks alone, and only where it likes. " Winston Churchill, who also kept dogs and cats and is known for such aphorism: "Dogs look at the person from the bottom up, the cat - from the top down, and only the pig - on equal».

Psychologists still no consensus on what mental characteristics affect the way a person gets an animal. But a number of studies the owners of cats and dogs from time to time show that the latter - more aggressive than the cat owner. In turn, the owners of cats - freedom-loving individuals, standing somewhat apart from the rest and rely solely on their own strength.

Perhaps it is this - the passion to dominate - and explains the fact that top officials of the States, as a rule, become fans of dogs. Sometimes they are both terrible and haters cats. For example, just such a person was the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

Well known calculation of its annual hunts. Along with wild animals, shot Nicholas II and cats, and his courtiers diligently recorded the number of victims. Here is one such reports of "imperial hunting" for 1902. Then Nicholas II in 1322 killed the cat:

In 1908, the cats were killed by them in 1215, in 1911 - 1177 pieces, etc. It is believed that in his life, Nicholas II and destroyed about 20 thousand. Cat.

But first socialist leader of the country, Vladimir Lenin, on the contrary, characterized by a love of cats. That's memoirs of contemporaries about the wards of Lenin:

And that Lenin himself with his favorite red cat:

Of all the general secretaries of the elderly cat owner was only Leonid Brezhnev. People even go to the Apocrypha of the extraordinary black cat named Lama, who was allegedly his predictions several times to save lives Brezhnev.

Cats and is a fan of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. He had cats since childhood, and took over as head of state he moved to his presidential quarters Dorothea cat. But a year ago, alas, Dorofei died, and now the president wound up kitten named Yenisey also breed "Neva Masquerade". However, Medvedev on the orders of his senior partner Vladimir Putin about 2 years ago, has become both a dog lover, acquiring Labrador.

Image of a cat Dorothea became famous thanks to the visit of US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in Moscow. Dorofei got here in this shot:

In the US presidents rarely becomes the owner of the cats for a different reason: their Protestant worldview forces to hold "utilitarian animals" - that is, those who bring a benefit to mankind, which can literally feel.

For example, President John Quincy Adams grew in my bedroom silkworms. Abraham Lincoln kept pigs, geese and turkey named Jack. President Benjamin Harrison kept a goat named Old Whiskers and 4 more goats.

Theodore Roosevelt in 1901, arrived at the White House with a large family and a real zoo: a small bear, badger, macaw, a lizard, a hyena, a variety of snakes, a family of guinea pigs, chicken, one-legged rooster, rabbits, ponies and horses three owl barn owl. < br />
27th President William Howard Taft owned a cow, whose name was Pauline Wayne, and it comes to him fresh milk. And his successor, Woodrow Wilson during the First World War started a 12 sheep - and they grazed right on the White House lawn.

(For a complete list of all the animals of US presidents)

The only country where the law is attributed to the Prime Minister is required to keep the cat - England. There cats placed in the residence of the Prime Minister that they catch mice. And the position of the cat is called "Chief Mouser seat of government." Here you can see a complete list of these "officials».

Blog Interpreter collected images of some of the leaders of their cats: