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| Dogs | Horses | Watership Down Rabbits |
| Collective nouns | Father Xmas' reindeer | Old Possum's Cats |
| Kipling | Animal Farm | Chinese callendar |
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| Dancer | Prancer | Donner | Blitzen |
| Vixen | Comet | Cupid | Dasher |
| Old Deuteronomy | Gus | Grizabella |
| Gumbie Cat | Mister Mistoffelees | Skimbleshanks |
| Griddlebone | Rum Tum Tugger | Macavity |
| Mungojerrie | Rumpleteazer | Victoria |
| Bustopher Jones | Growl Tiger | Jennyanydots |
| Morgan | Rumuscat | Jellicle Cats |
| Hazel (The Leader) | Bigwig (The Brave) | Fiver (The Prophet) |
| Buckthorn | Blackberry | Dandelion |
| Pipkin | Hawkbit | Silver |
| Speedwell | Acorn | |
| Threarah (Chief of the Owsla) | Captain Holly | Toadflax |
| Cowslip (at Trap Warren) | General Woundwort (at Efrafra) | Frith (The Creator) |
| Mowgli (man cub) 'The Frog' | Shere Khan (tiger) |
| Kaa (rock python) | Akela ('Lone Wolf') leader of the pack |
| Bagheera (black panther) | Mang (bat) |
| Baloo (brown bear) teacher of the law | Ikki (porcupine) |
| Mao (peacock) | Hathi (wild elephant) |
| Chil (kite) | Rama (bull) |
| Teddy (boy) | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (mongoose) |
| Darzee (tailor bird) | Chuchundra (musk rat) |
| Nag (black cobra) | Nagaina (black cobra) |
| Karait (small snake) | Chua (rat) |
| Napoleon (pig) | Clover (horse) |
| Mollie (horse) | Boxer (carthorse) |
| Jessie (dog) | Pitcher (dog) |
| Benjamin (donkey) | Muriel (goat) |
| Major (pig) | Minimus (pig) |
| Snowball (pig) | Squealer (pig) |
| Moses (raven) | Bluebell (dog) |
| Alfred | Claude Greengrass in Heartbeat |
| Algy Pug | Rupert Bear stories, Mary Tourtel |
| Alistair | Crystal Tipps |
| Arctophonos | Orion |
| Argus | Ulysses |
| Asta | The Thin Man |
| Balfour’s Poodle | House of Lords |
| Bandit | Johnny Quest |
| Bluebell | Animal Farm by Orwell |
| Boatswain | Lord Byron |
| Bonnie | Blue Peter |
| Boomer | Oz TV Series |
| Boot | The Perishers |
| Bounce | Alexander Pope |
| Boy | Prince Rupert |
| Bran | Fingal |
| Brutus | Sir Edwin Landseer |
| Buck | Jack London’s Call of the Wild |
| Bullseye | Bill Sykes (Oliver) |
| Captain | Mr Woolley (Archers) |
| Cavall | King Arthur |
| Cerberus | Charon |
| Checkers | Richard Nixon |
| Cuddley | Des Kinvig |
| Daisy | Blondie(US newspaper strip) |
| Dash | Queen Victoria |
| Dash | Charles Lamb |
| Diamond | Sir Isaac Newton |
| Digby | Biggest Dog in the World |
| Dougal | The Magic Roundabout |
| Dragon | Aubry’s dog or the Dog of Montargis |
| Fang | Columbo |
| Fido | means 'faithful' |
| Flush | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Fury | Alice |
| Gargittios | killed by Hercules |
| Geist | Matthew Arnold |
| Gelert | Llewelyn |
| Giallo | Walter Landor |
| Gnasher | Dennis the Menace |
| Goldie | Blue Peter |
| Greyfriars Bobby | watched over John Gray's grave for 20 years |
| Gypsy | Charles I |
| Hamlet | Sir Walter Scott |
| Hodain | Tristran |
| Honey | Blue Peter |
| Ivan | Louis Hayward (The Pursuers) |
| Jessie | Animal Farm by Orwell |
| John Joiner | Beatrix Potter character |
| Jumble | William Brown’s dog in Just William |
| Kaiser | Matthew Arnold |
| Katmir | The Seven Sleepers |
| Kep | Beatrix Potter character |
| K9 | Doctor Who |
| Laelaps | Procris |
| Laika | First animal in space |
| Lassie | Originally Jeff Miller then various others |
| Leon | Tristran |
| Luath | Robert Burns |
| Lufra | Douglas, in Scott’s Lady of the Lake |
| Maida | Sir Walter Scott |
| Mathe | Richard II’s greyhound |
| Moera | Icarius |
| Montmorency | Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome) |
| Nana | Darling family pet in Peter Pan |
| Napoleon | Larry Wade (Life without George) |
| Nipper | HMV mascot |
| Old Yeller | Tommy Kirk |
| Orthos | two-headed dog killed by Hercules |
| Patch | Blue Peter |
| Pearl | Beryl the Peril |
| Pedro | Sexton Blake |
| Perdita | mother dog in 101 Dalmations |
| Peritas | Alexander the Great |
| Petra | First Blue Peter dog (then Goldie and Shep) |
| Pickles | found the World Cup |
| Pitcher | Animal Farm by Orwell |
| Pongo | father dog in 101 Dalmations |
| Ptoophagos | Orion |
| Restless | The Waltons |
| Rin-Tin-Tin | Rusty |
| Rogue | Charles I |
| Roly | resides at Queen Vic in Eastenders |
| Rufus | Sir Winston Churchill’s poodle |
| Sandy | Little Orphan Annie |
| Santa's Little Helper | The Simpsons |
| Scamper | Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven dog |
| Shep | John Noakes (Blue Peter) |
| Simone | The Partridge Family |
| Skeeter | The Lyons |
| Snoopy | Charlie Brown (Peanuts) |
| Snowy | Tin Tin |
| Spit | TISWAS |
| Spotty | The Woodentops |
| Theron | Roderick the Goth |
| Timmy | The Famous Five |
| Toby | Punch (and Judy) |
| Toto | Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) |
| Truffles | Mildred Roper |
| Willie and Wellard | Ethel and Robbie in Eastenders respectively |
| antelope | herd |
| ants | army, colony |
| apes | shrewdness |
| asses | pace, herd, drove |
| baboons | troop |
| badgers | cete, colony |
| bears | sloth, sleuth |
| beavers | colony |
| bees | swarm, hive, erst |
| bison | herd |
| bitterns | sedge, siege |
| bloodhounds | sute |
| boars | sounder, herd, singular |
| budgerigars | chatter |
| buffalo | herd, obstinacy |
| bullfinches | bellowing |
| bullocks | drove |
| camels | train |
| caribou | herd |
| caterpillars | army |
| cats | cluster, clowder |
| cattle | drove, herd |
| chamois | herd |
| chickens | brood |
| choughs | chattering |
| colts | rag, rake |
| coots | covert, raft, fleet |
| coyote | pack |
| cranes | sedge, siege, herd |
| crocodiles | bask |
| crows | murder, hover |
| curlews | herd |
| curs | cowardice |
| deer | herd, leash |
| dogs | kennel, pack |
| dolphins | pod |
| donkeys | drove, herd, pace |
| doves | flight, dule, dole, pitying, prettying |
| ducks | paddling, team, flight, flush, plump, safe, smeath |
| dunlins | flight |
| eagles | convocation |
| eland | herd |
| elephants | herd, parade |
| elk | gang |
| falcons | cast |
| ferrets | fesnying, busyness, business |
| finch | trembling, trimming |
| fish | school, shoal |
| flies | swarm |
| foxes | skulk, earth, lead, troop |
| frogs | army, colony |
| geese | gaggle, skein (in flight), flock, nide |
| gelding | brace |
| giraffe | herd |
| gnats | swarm |
| goats | herd, tribe, trip, flock |
| goldfinches | charm, chattering, chirm, drum, troubling |
| goldfish | troubling |
| grouse | pack, covey, brood |
| gulls | colony |
| hares | down, husk, huske, leash, trace, trip |
| hawks | cast, leash |
| hedgehogs | array |
| hens | brood |
| herons | sedge, siege, serge |
| herring | shoal, cran |
| hinds | parcel |
| hippopotomi | bloat |
| Goat | 1943 | 1955 | 1967 | 1979 | 1991 |
| Monkey | 1944 | 1956 | 1968 | 1980 | 1992 |
| Cock | 1945 | 1957 | 1969 | 1981 | 1993 |
| Dog | 1946 | 1958 | 1970 | 1982 | 1994 |
| Pig | 1947 | 1959 | 1971 | 1983 | 1995 |
| Rat | 1948 | 1960 | 1972 | 1984 | 1996 |
| Buffalo | 1949 | 1961 | 1973 | 1985 | 1997 |
| Tiger | 1950 | 1962 | 1974 | 1986 | 1998 |
| Rabbit | 1951 | 1963 | 1975 | 1987 | 1999 |
| Dragon | 1952 | 1964 | 1976 | 1988 | 2000 |
| Snake | 1953 | 1965 | 1977 | 1989 | 2001 |
| Horse | 1954 | 1966 | 1978 | 1990 | 2002 |
| Aarvak | horse drawing sun’s chariot in Norse mythology |
| Abaster | Pluto |
| Abatos | Pluto |
| Abraxa | Aurora |
| Actaeon | Helios, the Sun |
| Aethon | Helios, the Sun |
| Aeton | Pluto |
| Al Borak | Mohammed’s flying horse |
| Alfani | Gradasso in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso |
| Allycrocker | Thomas Jefferson |
| Alsvid | horse drawing moon’s chariot in Norse mythology |
| Amathea | Helios, the Sun |
| Anmer | George V (horse involved in the death of Emily Davison) |
| Anzac | George V |
| Aquiline | Raymond in Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered |
| Arion | Hercules, formerly Neptune |
| Arkle | Duchess of Westminster(steeplechaser) |
| Arundel | Bevis of Hampton |
| Baldy | Gen. George Gordon Meade |
| Balios | Achilles |
| Balios | given to Peleus by Neptune |
| Barbary Roan | Richard II |
| Bavieca | El Cid |
| Bayard | Gen. Philip Kearny |
| Bayard | Rinaldo |
| Beauty | George III |
| Benjamin | donkey in Animal Farm by Orwell |
| Billy | Gen. George H Thomas |
| Black Agnes | Mary Queen of Scots |
| Black Beauty | book by Anna Sewell |
| Black Bess | Dick Turpin in Harrison Ainsworth’s Rookwood |
| Black Burns | Gen. George Brinton McClellan |
| Black Nell | Wild Bill Hickock |
| Black Saladin | Earl of Warwick |
| Blackjack | Rocky Lane |
| Boxer | horse in Animal Farm by Orwell |
| Brigadore | Sir Guyon in Spenser’s Faerie Queene |
| Brigiliadoro | Orlando |
| Broiefori | Ogier the Dane |
| Bronte | Helios, the Sun |
| Brown Adam | Sir Walter Scott |
| Bucephalus | Alexander the Great |
| Caractacus | Thomas Jefferson |
| Carman | Bayard |
| Celer | Emperor Lucius Verus |
| Cerus | Adrastus |
| Champion the Wonder Horse | Ricky North |
| Champion | Gene Autrey |
| Chancellor | Gen. J E B Stuart |
| Chrysaor | from Medusa’s blood |
| Cincinnati | Gen. Ulysses S Grant |
| Clavileño | Sancho Panza’s wooden horse |
| Clover | horse in Animal Farm by Orwell |
| Comanche | Little Big Horn survivor |
| Copenhagen | Wellington |
| Cyllaros | Castor and Pollux |
| Daisy | Henry and Clover Adams |
| Dancing Brave | Prince Khalid bin Abdullah |
| Daniel Webster | Gen. George B McClellan |
| Dapple | Sancho Panza in Don Quixote |
| Decatur | Gen. Philip Kearny |
| Désiré | Napoleon |
| Devon Loch | HM the Queen Mother (fell in the Grand National) |
| Diablo | The Cisco Kid |
| Dinos | Diomedes |
| Diomed | Duke of Wellington |
| Duke | John Wayne |
| Duke | Texas Jack |
| Eeos | Aurora |
| Eeyore (donkey) | Christopher Robin stories by A A Milne |
| Egypt | Gen. Ulysses S Grant |
| El Morzillo | Hernan Cortes |
| Embelli | Napoleon |
| Erythreos | Helios, the Sun |
| Ethon | Hector |
| Everest Lastic | Nick Skelton |
| Fadda | Mohammed’s mule |
| Ferrant d’Espagne | Oliver |
| Fire-Eater | Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston |
| Fritz | W S Hart |
| Galathe | Hector |
| Glencoe | Gen. John Hunt Morgan |
| Grani | Siegfried in Wagner’s Ring |
| Gringolet | Gawain in Gawain and the Green Knight |
| Grizzle | Dr Syntax |
| Haizum | Archangel Gabriel |
| Harpagus | Castor and Pollux |
| Hercules | Jorrocks |
| Hercules | Steptoe |
| Highfly | Gen. J E B Stuart |
| Hippocampus | Neptune’s horse with fish’s hind quarters |
| Hrimfaxi | Horse of Night in Scandinavian mythology |
| Hyperion | Lord Derby (racehorse) |
| Incitatus | Caligula (made him consul) |
| Ingénu | Napoleon |
| Jack | Gen. Ulysses S Grant |
| Jeff Davis | Gen. Ulysses S Grant |
| Kantaka | Gautama Siddhartha |
| King Philip | Gen. Nathan B Forrest |
| Koko | Rex Allen |
| Lady Margrave | Gen. J E B Stuart |
| Lampon | Diomedes |
| Lampos | Helios, the Sun |
| Lamri | King Arthur |
| Lexington | Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman |
| Little Sorrel | Gen. Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson |
| Lookout | Gen. Joseph Hooker |
| Lucy Long | Gen. Robert E Lee |
| Magnolia | George Washington |
| Marengo | Napoleon |
| Marocco | owned by Banks, a trick horse of Elizabethan England |
| Marsala | Garibaldi |
| Marshland Shales | 19th Century, one-eyed |
| Mill House | Bill Gollings (racehorse) |
| Mill Reef | Paul Mellon (racehorse) |
| Modestine | R L Stevenson, Travels on a Donkey |
| Mollie | horse in Animal Farm by Orwell |
| Monmouth | Gen. Philip Kearny |
| Moscow | Gen. Philip Kearny |
| Nelson | George Washington |
| Nijinski | Charles Engelhard (racehorse) |
| Nomos | Pluto |
| Northern Dancer | EP Taylor (racehorse) |
| Old Charlie | William F Cody, "Buffalo Bill" |
| Old Whitey | Gen. Zachary Taylor |
| Peanuts | Stephen Crane |
| Pegasus | winged horse of Bellerophon |
| Phaethon | Aurora |
| Phallus | Heraclius |
| Phlegos | Helios, the Sun |
| Phrenicos | Hiero of Syracuse |
| Podarge | Hector |
| Prince | Henry and Clover Adams |
| Purosis | Helios, the Sun |
| Rain-in-the-Face | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Red Rum | Noel le Mare (3 times Grand National winner) |
| Reksh | Rustam |
| Rienzi | Gen. Philip Sheridan |
| Roitelet | Napoleon |
| Ronald | Lord Cardigan’s in the Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Rosabelle | Mary Queen of Scots |
| Rosinante | Don Quixote |
| Sam | Gen. W T Sherman |
| Savoy | Charles VIII of France |
| Scout | Tonto |
| Set | red-headed ass of the Egyptian Saturnalia |
| Shergar | Aga Khan (racehorse killed by the IRA) |
| Shibdiz | Chosroes II |
| Silver King | Hank (Francis Coudrill’s puppet) |
| Silver | Buck Jones |
| Silver | The Lone Ranger |
| Skylark | Gen. J E B Stuart |
| Sleipnir | eight-legged horse of Odin |
| Sorrel | William III |
| Steve | carthorse in newspaper strip "Come on Steve!" |
| Strymon | Xerxes |
| Swallow | Hereward the Wake |
| Tarzan | Ken Maynard |
| Tendencur | Charlemagne |
| Texas | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Tony | Tom Mix |
| Topper | Hopalong Cassidy |
| Traveller | Gen. Robert E Lee |
| Trebizond | Guarinos |
| Trigger | Roy Rogers |
| TUC | the carthorse as depicted by the cartoonist David Low |
| Vegliantino | Orlando |
| Veillantif | Roland |
| Vic | Gen. George A Custer |
| Virginia | Gen. J E B Stuart |
| Volonel | Field Marshall Earl Roberts VC |
| White Flash | Tex Ritter |
| White Surrey | Richard III |
| Xanthus | Achilles |
| Copyright Quibs 1999 |
Last Updated 25/3/1999
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