Socks, former Clinton cat, put to sleep

CNN ^ | 02/20/09 | Uncredited

[Big_Monkey]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Socks, the cat who won international fame during his years in the Clinton White House, was euthanized Friday after months of treatment for cancer. Socks was adopted by Chelsea Clinton when her father was governor of Arkansas.

Socks was adopted by Chelsea Clinton when her father was governor of Arkansas.

Socks, who was born in 1989, was put to sleep about 10 a.m. at Three Notch Veterinary Clinic in Hollywood, Maryland, said veterinary assistant Rae Dera. Veterinarians say he was probably either 19 or 20 years old.

The cat had been losing weight since November and had been treated at the clinic, Dera said. He had been suffering from a cancer in his mouth and jaw.

Since the Clintons left the White House in 2001, Socks had lived with Betty Currie, former President Bill Clinton's secretary. The Clintons were known to have visited Socks, and Currie, when in Washington.

He had been a stray and was adopted by Chelsea Clinton, the Clintons' daughter, when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas.

[dynachrome]

RIP Socks. You were the only honest inhabitant in the White House in those years.

[SkyDancer]

[50mm]

Mary Mahoney (Former White House intern shot multiple times in a Starbucks, pockets picked, no cash register money taken)
Luther "Jerry" Parks (Provided security for Clinton's campaign, multiple gunshots)
Kevin Ives (Witness to Mena, skull crushed, left to be run over by train)
Don Henry (Witness to Mena, stabbed, left to be run over by train)
Eric Butera (Starbucks informant, beaten to death in sting)
Jeff Rhodes (Ives/Henry Witness, gunshot to head)
Ed Gould (Clinton's HIV/AIDS Advisory Council, Toxic)
Florence Martin (Accountant with info on Barry Seal, Gunshot to head)
Alder Berriman (Barry) Seal (Mena, Murdered)
Keith McKaskle (Ives/Henry Informant, Stabbed)
Gregory Collins (Ives/Henry Informant, Gunshot to Head)
James Milon (Ives/Henry Informant, Decapitated)
Richard Winters (Ives/Henry Suspect, Shotgunned)
Jordan Ketelson (Ives/Henry Informant, Shotgunned)
Larry Guerin (Inslaw Investigator, unknown)
Alan Standorf (NSA, Inslaw Investigator, unknown)
Dennis Eisman (Inslaw attorney, Shot)
Mitchell D. Abel, (Cocaine dealer and student re Tyson, Gunshot)
Mike Samples (Ives/Henry witness)
Eric L. Henderson (financial advisor to Ron Brown, shot while riding bicycle)
Steve Leung (investor in China, beaten)
Mary Beth (Pixie) Grismore (politically connected, murdered)
Judy Danielak (journalist, sniper)
Cecil Boren (by escaped inmate, tainted blood whistleblower)
Lee Scott Hall (stabbed, Lawrence Livermore Lab employee)
John D Muskopf (CIA Analyst, killed in robbery attempt)
Socks "The Cat" (Knew where the skeletons were hidden, put down)

[17th Miss Regt]

I guess Bill visited her and Socks because he missed the pussy.

"I did not have Socks with that woman..."

[LiberConservative]

One of the best cat pix of all time. Socks shows more dignity in that one photo than Bubba did during his entire presidency.

[Big_Monkey]

"I guess Bill visited her and Socks because he missed the pussy. "

He shoots. He Scoooooorrrrrreeeesssssss!

[mass55th]

"Whatever happened to Buddy?"

Bubba threw him in front of a car.

[La Enchiladita]

Well, Socks lived much longer than Vince.
RIP, kitty. Sorry he got cancer:-(

[mass55th]

Socks was a beautiful tuxedo cat, like my Timmy.
Timmy had cancer of the nasal passage, but he was a trooper ‘til the end.
RIP Socks. You’re with friends now.

[Ciexyz]

Socks is now at the Rainbow bridge. RIP, Socks.

[Ciexyz]

http://www.rainbowbridge.com
http://www.rainbowbridge.org

[anniegetyourgun]

Only the Clintons would use the death of their pet to get back in the news.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Bubba threw him in front of a car.

That's so Arkansas Hillbilly 90's.

Bam-Bam throws 'em under a BUS! And it's getting full.

[beckysueb]

He got hit by a car shortly after the Clintons left the WH.

[Syncro]

You were looking good back then!

RIP

[EdnaMode]

RIP!

[Big_Monkey]

"(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)"

I noticed your tag. Do you think there's any significance to the fact that every time Florida wins a National Championship, the Democrats give the Republicans a shellacking?

[Slings and Arrows]

[Nowhere Man]

What a shame. Socks was the only decent Clinton.

Agreed. RIP, Socks, may you meet my kitties at the Rainbow Bridge.

[SoldierDad]

Socks, former Clinton cat, put to sleep

Bill has gone into seclusion worried he might be next.