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 saying, “The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored,” is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.”
—native American belief, quoted by D. Jenness in “The Carrier Indians of the Bulkley River,” Bulletin no. 133, Bureau of American Ethnology (1943)
“About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)