Pauline Wayne

Pauline Wayne was a Holstein cow that belonged to William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States.

Also known as "Miss Wayne", Pauline was not Taft's first presidential cow: she replaced the lesser-known "Mooly Wooly", which provided milk for the First Family for a year and a half before suddenly dying in 1910, reportedly after eating too many oats.

[2] The four-year-old cow was pregnant and gave birth to a male calf named "Big Bill" (after the President), which was later sent to a Maryland farm.

The attendants who found Pauline Wayne convinced the stock yard that this was indeed the President's cow, and she was saved "from the bludgeon of the slaughterer.

[4] She was the most recent presidential cow to live at the White House and was considered as much a Taft family pet as she was livestock.