Great Literary Animals

[Sarasvati21]

Okay, so I've seen threads for favourite almost anythings, but what about the great animals in the books we read?
(I hope this hasn't been done before.)

I especially like Mr Bultitude from CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength.

[LadyWentworth]

Narnia's Aslan, of course. :D

He is always first and foremost on my list when I think of one. I am sure that there probably is another that I have liked at some point, but he is #1 for me. :)

[Dark Muse]

This is a great topic.

One of my all time faveorites is the Black Stallion, from the Black Stallion seris. I fell in love with that horse.

I also love Shadowfax from Lord of the Rings.

And of coure I cannot forget Buck from Jack London

and the Raven, from Poe

Oh and I almost forgot The Cheshire Cat from Alice and Wonderland

If I thought about it I could probably go on and on LOL

[mayneverhave]

The dog, Perezvon/Zuchka, from The Brothers Karamazov.

[moose gurl]

Snowball from Animal Farm.
And Boxer from Animal Farm.
When I read that book the first time, I hated the ending because of what happens to Boxer.

Still upsets me.

[Logos]

Georgi Vladimov's Faithful Ruslan, the Russian guard dog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/nov/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

and Margaret Marshall Saunders's Beautiful Joe http://www.beautifuljoe.org/ are two of my favs as well as so many others already mentioned :)

[kasie]

I'm reading Love over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith at the moment (a bit of light relief, I can't cope with anything too worthy at the moment - and it was in the Works on special offer, I can't walk past special offers on books). It's about the people who live in an Edinburgh apartment block - he calls it a 'townhouse', but that means something different in England - and one of the characters owns a dog called Cyril, variety unspecified, though it might have been in a previous book, I can't remember, something small, however. I have fallen in love with Cyril - he lives in an entirely dog-orientated world. McCall Smith thinks like a dog, seeing everything from low-level and in terms of smells and dog-interest - at one point Cyril is tempted to chase a cat because ' the cat had that look of insufferable and unjustifiable arrogance which no right-thinking dog could tolerate.' Cyril is stolen but manages to escape and find his way towards home, meeting someone on the way who recognises him and re-unites him with Angus - 'Cyril bounded over the floor of the bar, a strange sound coming from his mouth, a howl of a sort that one would not have thought a dog capable of, a whoop, an almost human wail of delight. Angus rose to his feet, and with a great leap Cyril was in his arms, licking his face, twisting his body this way and that in sheer delight, still howling in between gasps for air.' How about that for Aaaahhh! factor?

[Chester]

If the works of Dr. Seuss count as literature, and I'm willing to defend the idea that they do, then I gotta go with The Cat in the Hat. Hands down.

[Kafka's Crow]

That has to be TS Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger:

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat:
If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse.
If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat,
If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house.
If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat,
If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse.
Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat -
And there isn't any call for me to shout it:
For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!

...... read the complete poem here: http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum/oldpossumlex/node5.html
or watch him in action here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCbharr18U

[PeterL]

Tuchi in The Aluminum Man

[togre]

Hazel and Big Wig from Watership Down.

Also, Rikki Tikki Tavi from The Jungle Books, which has a host of great animal characters.

[Dark Muse]

Snowball from Animal Farm.
And Boxer from Animal Farm.
When I read that book the first time, I hated the ending because of what happens to Boxer.

Still upsets me.

Yeah, Boxer and the cat were my faveorites in that story. I almost cried about Boxer.

[bounty]

Hazel and Big Wig from Watership Down.

Also, Rikki Tikki Tavi from The Jungle Books, which has a host of great animal characters.

absolutely agree with hazel and big wig....

and then to stick with richard adams, snitter and rowf from the plague dogs are pretty nifty...

and i really enjoy the dragons in anne mccaffrey's dragonriders of pern series...

[SirRaustusBear]

Hazel and Big Wig from Watership Down.

No love for Fiver? I gotta say Big Wig, Blackberry and Fiver were my favorites.

If anyone has read Setting Free the Bears by John Irving, you have to love the Oryx, the Bandicoot, and the Rare Spectacled Bears. Even the Asiatic Black Bear if you like rebellious types.

[JBI]

The Pussycat from The Owl and the Pussycat by Lear.

[Sarasvati21]

If the works of Dr. Seuss count as literature, and I'm willing to defend the idea that they do, then I gotta go with The Cat in the Hat. Hands down.

Of course they count as literature! :) Horton's pretty awesome, too. :p

[bounty]

Of course they count as literature! :) Horton's pretty awesome, too. :p

we are here! we are here! we are here!

[bounty]

No love for Fiver? I gotta say Big Wig, Blackberry and Fiver were my favorites.

If anyone has read Setting Free the Bears by John Irving, you have to love the Oryx, the Bandicoot, and the Rare Spectacled Bears. Even the Asiatic Black Bear if you like rebellious types.

the daughter of a colleague of mine is reading watership down and fiver is her favorite character....