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- Spiders often appear in the comic strip. Garfield, who despises spiders, whacks them with newspaper. However sometimes the spiders do manage to outwit Garfield. Guido, a house spider, usually appears to annoy Garfield.
- Birds often appear as Garfield hunts and (usually) eats them, usually by lying in ambush near the birdbath, or lying on the ground waiting for birds to land on him.
- Mice: Jon's house is also inhabited by mice, many of whom make cameo appearances in the strip. They are often portrayed as living their own social lives in their mouse holes. Although Jon wants Garfield to get rid of the mice, Garfield spares the mice and is even friends with them. Though he comes from a family of expert mouse-catchers, (his mother, father and grandfather for example), Garfield thinks that eating mice is disgusting. As he once famously put it, "Show me a cat that's a good mouser, and I'll show you a cat with bad breath." As a result the mice generally have the run of the house. On at least three occasions, the mice have been given names: one named Squeak appeared in the mid-1980s, and one named Herman Vermin in the late 1990s, which is mentioned in some strips. There is also one mouse named Stretch, similar to Garfield's rubber chicken, though only appeared in one strip. In the television series, a mouse named Floyd appeared regularly as a friend of Garfield, normally once a season (which he often complained about). Unlike the other mice, Floyd had a pink nose and white pupils like Garfield had. On The Garfield Show, there are several mice led by a certain one named Squeak, who is a friend of Garfield and the leader of the gang.
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