List of wealthiest animals

This is a list of the wealthiest animals in the world. Many inherited money from their owners.

Wealthiest animals

  • Blackie, considered the richest cat, inherited a $12.5 million fortune.[1]
  • Gigoo was a Scots Dumpy hen willed $15 million. It was owned by Miles Blackwell, a publisher of textbooks.[2]
  • Tommaso, a black cat given $13 million. This cat was a stray that found its way into the home of Maria Assunta, a property magnate in Italy. When Assunta died at the age of 94, she willed her fortune to either the cat or an animal welfare charity that would look after it. It was decided after no suitable charity could be found that the money would be given to the cat, held in trust by Assunta's nurse.[3]
  • Trouble, a dog owned by Leona Helmsley. She left Trouble $12 million.[4]
  • Grumpy Cat with an estimated worth of at least $1 million.[5]
  • Flossie, a dog owned by Drew Barrymore, barked to alert her and then-husband Tom Green of a fire. She put her house in trust for the dog to show her gratitude.[6]
  • Big Tibby inherited £50,000. The 52-year-old tortoise was willed the money by his millionaire owner, Donald Moss.[7]
  • Csoki, an African parrot, received £50,000 from Victoria Brown, a millionaire from London, England.[7]
Tardar Sauce, better known as "Grumpy Cat"
  • Brad McFluffles the original dog from Lassy is worth $12.4 Million (59,457,992.45 Ghanian Cedi)
  • Gunther IV, apparently worth $200 million, a dog dynasty who inherited money from Countess Karlotta Liebenstein of Germany[8][9]


Reportedly Toby Rimes, a poodle inherited $20 million from New Yorker Ella Wendel in 1931.[10][11] In fact it seems that no such bequest was made.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wealthiest cat | Guinness World Records
  2. ↑ World's Richest Chicken - Millionaire Hen
  3. ↑ Tommaso, the Italian cat, inherits $13 million from owner Maria Assunta | Public Radio International
  4. ↑ "Richest dogs in the world". Dogtime. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Brad Tuttle. "The 10 Richest Pets of All Time". MONEY.com. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Pets that inherited a fortune". MNN - Mother Nature Network. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Super-rich furry animals: Four-legged legacies (and other pet payouts)". 30 August 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "These animals are probably richer than you are". Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "A Match Made in Doggy Heaven". latimes. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  10. ↑ Tim Parker. "These Are Some Of The Richest Pets In The World". Business Insider Australia. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  11. ↑ "The world's top 4 richest pets". Yahoo Finance. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  12. ↑ Mervin Rosenman (1984). Forgery, Perjury and an Enormous Fortune.
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