Animals
Names like Fox and Hounds, Dog and Duck, Dog and Gun, etc., refer to hunting (see below). Animal names coupled with colours, such as White Hart and Red Lion, or of foreign or rare animals, are often heraldic (see below).
- Fox & Hounds, West Witton
- Guide Dog, Southampton.
- Hen and Chickens
- Pigs, Edgefield, Norfolk, formerly Three Pigs, originally Bacon Arms.
Individual animals once famous in a particular locality sometimes give their names to pubs:
- Blue Cap, Cheshire: named after a noted 18th century foxhound marked with a dark patch on its head.
- Smoker, Cheshire: named after a grey horse which was the mount of a local landowner.
- Tiger Inn. Examples are found in Sussex, Kent, Dorset and Yorkshire.
Pubs may also be named after racehorses, although the connection may not be readily apparent. In some cases names may refer to once-famous racehorses. These include: Dr Syntax (Preston), Alice Hawthorn (Nun Monkton), Golden Miller (Longstowe), Slow and Easy (Lostock Gralam), Windmill (Tabley), Happy Man, (Manchester), and Spinner and Bergamot (Northwich, Cheshire),
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Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizziness or disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)
“The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness—by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“It isn’t true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936)