Walton's Pets

Well how did you go with this one? The Walton children certainly had many and varied pets over the years, some of which didn't seem to stay around for more than one or two episodes. Some of the pets we, on the mailing list came up with were:

• The family cow (Chance). It would seem that Chance was a popular name for cows in the Walton family, because there were at least two cows called Chance during the series. The first one died when John Boy was graduating, and he returned his graduation suit to buy a new cow instead.

• The family mule (Blue)

• The family dog (Reckless)

• Elizabeth's racoon (Pete)

• Jim Bob's peacock (Rover)

• Elizabeth's cat (Calico), who dies whilst having her kittens in The Loss. Young Olivia saves the kittens and Elizabeth gives one of them to her.

• Not exactly a Walton pet, but the school guinea pig (Porthos) was in Jim Bob's care for a while. Unfortunately it died and Jim Bob runs away when he feels that nobody in the family cares.

• The goat (Myrtle) which was given to the Walton family by their friend Maude.

• Myrtle's baby goat (Gingerbread)

• Elizabeth's horse (Molly) and her foal

• Erin's baby deer (Sir Lancelot)

• The canary which Jim Bob bought for Grandma (Chirppy)

• Chance's calf (Dynamite)

• Jeffrey's cat (Harold) who turns out to be a girl, when she has kittens.
• Jim Bob's duck, which he hatched by holding the egg under his arm. Jim Bob called this duck Jim Bob Junior.
• Serena and Jeffrey also had a dog, but I'm not sure of its name.
• Mary Ellen had a pet lamb fairly early in the series.