We tend to think of hooved animals like horses as being stoic and tough, able to stand all night in cold barns or on windswept hillsides, not in need of the soft, creature comforts of “pet ...
In 1909, wealthy widow Susie W. Allgood marketed a plush marsupial inspired by President William Howard Taft. But children thought the toy looked "too much like a rat," and it sold poorly ...