Choosing the default value of an Enum type without having to change values

Question

In C#, is it possible to decorate an Enum type with an attribute or do something else to specify what the default value should be, without having the change the values? The

Answer 1

Actually an enum's default is the first element in the enum whose value is 0.

So for example:

public enum Animals
{
    Cat,
    Dog,
    Pony = 0,
}
//its value will actually be Cat not Pony unless you assign a non zero value to Cat.
Animals animal;