BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Animals mentioned in Sherlock

**Posted by Davina** May 14, 2012 6:00 pm

A Molly is a type of fish. West Highland Terrier - in Hounds of the Baskerville. Pig - he harpoons one!

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** May 14, 2012 8:19 pm

Do the Lucky Cat and the cat from The Great Game count as two seperate animals?

**Posted by tobeornot221b** May 14, 2012 8:42 pm

Sherlock Holmes wrote:
Do the Lucky Cat and the cat from The Great Game count as two seperate animals?

Not on my list...but if you like...ok!

But then we have a lot of fish, like in Henry Fishgard, try fishing, the unemployed fisherman, Davina's molly...
There's something fishy about the whole matter I presume...

**Posted by JaneCo** May 14, 2012 8:59 pm

Deer

Moriarty's text to Mycroft in SiB "...dear me Mr Holmes, dear me"

2 of them in fact

**Posted by tobeornot221b** May 15, 2012 4:50 am

Well, here comes the zoo update:

hound
fly
rabbit
cat
Lucky Cat
lark
hoarse horses
fish, incl. a molly
spider
(a not mentioned, but shown) cricket
(a not mentioned, but shown) bat
(A mysterious) goose, (apparently sprung from the canon zoo)
eagle (Adler)
West Highland terrier
pig
dear deer

I'll add a
wolf
from BASKERVILLE.

But there are many more...

**Posted by jenosborn** May 15, 2012 5:34 am

monkey in Baskerville lab

**Posted by Tantalus** May 24, 2012 6:17 pm

Well, this is definitely a stretch, but "Staying Alive was by the Bee Gees. : \

**Posted by Tantalus** May 24, 2012 7:09 pm

And then, there's "Hat-Man and Robin".

Last edited by Tantalus (May 24, 2012 7:13 pm)

**Posted by tobeornot221b** May 29, 2012 12:19 pm

Looking after my Sherlock zoo today I've seen that there are still some animals being unmentioned and therefore running free.
Will they ever be found?

Up to now we have this funny bunch of creatures:
hound
fly
rabbit
cat
Lucky Cat
lark
hoarse horses
fish, incl. a molly
spider
(a not mentioned, but shown) cricket
(a not mentioned, but shown) bat
(A mysterious) goose, (apparently sprung from the canon zoo)
eagle (Adler)
West Highland terrier
pig
dear deer
wolf
monkey
bee
robin

...and as a new entry:
a dog (an ordinary one)

**Posted by Tantalus** May 29, 2012 1:19 pm

From "Scandal", the late unfortunate hiker/boomerangist was not, deduced Sherlock, watching birds.

**Posted by Britigander** May 29, 2012 2:36 pm

A perambulating bear in (TGG)
with US connections.

**Posted by tobeornot221b** May 29, 2012 6:41 pm

Hmm...a perambulating bear in TGG? Not the round-and-round-the-garden bloke in ASiP?

**Posted by Britigander** May 29, 2012 7:05 pm

Edited to say now had time to check online, and it's TGG.
Though perhaps there's something similar in ASIP?

Last edited by Britigander (May 30, 2012 12:17 am)

**Posted by sherlockskitty** May 29, 2012 7:14 pm

RATS? "Rats as big as dogs...." the bloke in Hounds said....

**Posted by Britigander** May 29, 2012 7:41 pm

Ooh, good one... Has anyone posted the next bit, other wise go for it!

*work mode*
Edited to add later

... dogs as the size of horses (also in THOB)

Last edited by Britigander (May 30, 2012 12:23 am)

**Posted by Tantalus** May 31, 2012 8:01 pm

Also from THoB:

-sheep (cloned Dolly)

-mice (shown briefly in cages in the lab)

-Mr. Seldon (in the backseat of the "Morse Code" car)

**Posted by tobeornot221b** May 31, 2012 8:07 pm

Tantalus wrote:
-Mr. Seldon (in the backseat of the "Morse Code" car)

Please explain this animal to a clueless German!

**Posted by Tantalus** May 31, 2012 8:12 pm

Oops! Thought "animal" was universal for a sex-crazed person. I assume that's what Seldon was doing in the car...

**Posted by tobeornot221b** May 31, 2012 8:16 pm

...you mean the "dogging", don't you?
(Nice tongue-in-cheek one in reference to the hound thing btw!)

**Posted by Tantalus** May 31, 2012 8:17 pm

Okay, "dogging" is new to me, but I'm pretty sure I follow...