What kind of pets did people have during the American Revolution?

Just a curious question. A friend and I were discussing this and we found it would just be a neat thing to know. Did they even have pets? I've heard dogs were popular, but what kind? I've heard a lot of different answers, and research is too much of a pain for a 'just to know' question.|||I don't think they tended to keep pets (not the way we think of them), though they would have had working animals, including dogs to guard and manage livestock, horses for transportation, oxen for pulling heavy loads, and cats for pest control. I'm sure there were a few people who had a particular fondness for an animal, but I doubt it was the norm. It would have been an extravagance.|||Actually people during the revolution had plenty of pets. Thomas Jefferson, for example, had a monkey and peacocks at his home Monticello. Hunting dogs as well as just domestic dogs were also common. The tradition of house pets has been around since the Romans really :)

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