Elvis always loves
animals, but he could
never afford to have any
as a child but made up for
it when he became a star.
Elvis also loved horses
and enjoyed riding. He
rode his first horse for
his first 1956 movie Love
Me Tender. It has been
said that Elvis did ride
horses as a child in
Tupelo. Many Elvis pets
appeared in his movies
The first horse kept at
Graceland was a quarter-horse called Domino which
Elvis bought for Priscilla.
After that he bought a palomino, Rising Sun for himself.
When
Rising Sun passed away in 1986, EPE did a national search and
acquired a distant relative of Sun's and named him Sun's Reflection.
He, along with Ebony's Double a Tennessee Walking Horse
purchased by Priscilla Presley 1975 continue to live at Graceland.
Rising Sun Elvis' famous pet
Palomino Elvis
riding Ebony's Double
All horses were
stabled in a barn called the House of the Rising Sun named after
the song by the Animals. Other horses at Graceland
& the Circle G Ranch were named: Colonel Midnight Vernon Presley' horse:
Lady,
Golden
Sun, Scout, Flaming Star
(named after his movie)
Sheba,
Thundercloud, El Poco, Beauty
named after the horse in the movie Giant. Traveler named
after Robert E Lee's horse. Bear a Tennessee Walker,
Keno, Buckshot named after Wild Bill Hitchcock's horse.
Sundown,
Star Trek, Big Red bought for Red West
Elvis pets in movies:
Baba the Collie went to Hollywood with Elvis
and appear in Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966).
Photos
of Celebrity Pets | Elvis' Chimpanzee Story
Elvis gave Priscilla two pet
Great
Danes in the 60’s, Snoopy & Brutus. Brutus appeared as
Albert in the1968 Elvis movie, Live a Little, Love a
Little. The dog passed away not long after Elvis & Priscilla
divorced. Snoopy later became
Lisa
Marie’s favourite pet dog
