Heaven of Pets
The dogs who waited, the horses who flew, the cats who sailed the seas. 65 beloved animals the world will never forget.
- Alex (1976 to 2007) — African grey parrot who understood concepts and numbers
- Balto (1919 to 1933) — Led the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome
- Bamboo Harvester (1949 to 1970) — Mister Ed, television's talking horse
- Barry (1800 to 1814) — St. Bernard who rescued more than forty travellers in the Alps
- Benjamin (1930 to 1936) — The last Tasmanian tiger
- Bo (2008 to 2021) — The Obama family's Portuguese water dog
- Bucephalus (355 BC to 326 BC) — Warhorse of Alexander the Great
- Cecil (2002 to 2015) — The lion whose death moved the world
- Chaser (2004 to 2019) — The Border Collie who knew a thousand words
- Cheeta (1932 to 2011) — Hollywood's Tarzan chimpanzee
- Cher Ami (1918 to 1919) — Carrier pigeon who saved the Lost Battalion
- Christian the Lion (1969) — The lion who never forgot the men who raised him
- Clever Hans (1895 to 1916) — The horse who seemed to count and changed psychology
- David Greybeard (1950 to 1968) — First chimpanzee Jane Goodall saw use a tool
- Dolly (1996 to 2003) — First mammal cloned from an adult cell
- Endal (1996 to 2009) — Service dog so able he could work a cash machine
- Flaco (2010 to 2024) — The owl who escaped the zoo and made New York his own
- Fungie (1975 to 2020) — The Dingle dolphin who greeted boats for thirty seven years
- G.I. Joe (1943 to 1961) — Pigeon whose message saved an Italian village from bombing
- Greyfriars Bobby (1855 to 1872) — Kept watch over his master's grave for fourteen years
- Grumpy Cat (2012 to 2019) — The frown that made millions smile
- Hachiko (1923 to 1935) — Waited nine years at Shibuya Station for his late owner
- Ham (1957 to 1983) — First chimpanzee in space
- Incitatus (30 to 41) — Caligula's beloved horse, nearly made a consul
- Jumbo (1860 to 1885) — The elephant whose name became a word
- Kabang (2008 to 2021) — Threw herself before a motorcycle to save two children
- Kabosu (2005 to 2024) — The shiba whose face became the internet's kindest joke
- Keiko (1976 to 2003) — The orca who played Willy and swam home to Iceland
- Knut (2006 to 2011) — The polar bear cub the whole world adopted
- Laika (1954 to 1957) — First animal to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2
- Lonesome George (1910 to 2012) — The last Pinta Island tortoise
- Lucca (2004 to 2018) — Marine K9 who lost a leg shielding her patrol
- Marengo (1793 to 1831) — Napoleon's grey Arabian
- Martha (1885 to 1914) — The last passenger pigeon on Earth
- Mitzi (1958 to 1972) — The original Flipper
- Morris the Cat (1959 to 1978) — The world's most finicky cat
- Mrs. Chippy (1914 to 1915) — Shackleton's ship cat aboard the Endurance
- Nipper (1884 to 1895) — The dog listening to His Master's Voice
- Old Drum (1865 to 1869) — The dog behind the words man's best friend
- Old Hemp (1893 to 1901) — The founding father of the Border Collie
- Old Tom (1895 to 1930) — The orca who hunted alongside the whalers of Eden
- Owney (1887 to 1897) — Railway mail dog who rode a million miles around the world
- Pal (1940 to 1958) — The first and definitive Lassie
- Paul the Octopus (2008 to 2010) — Predicted World Cup results and enchanted the planet
- Pelorus Jack (1888 to 1912) — Guided ships through Cook Strait, first sea creature protected by law
- Pickles (1962 to 1967) — Found the stolen World Cup trophy in a London hedge
- Punxsutawney Phil (1886) — The weather prophet groundhog of Gobbler's Knob
- Red Rum (1965 to 1995) — Three time Grand National winner
- Rin Tin Tin (1918 to 1932) — From a WWI battlefield to Hollywood's biggest star
- Sallie Ann Jarrett (1861 to 1865) — Civil War mascot who kept watch over the fallen at Gettysburg
- Seabiscuit (1933 to 1947) — The underdog racehorse who lifted the Great Depression
- Secretariat (1970 to 1989) — Won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by thirty one lengths
- Sergeant Stubby (1916 to 1926) — Most decorated war dog of World War I
- Shrek (1994 to 2011) — The sheep who hid from shearers for six years
- Simon (1947 to 1948) — Ship's cat of HMS Amethyst, only cat awarded the Dickin Medal
- Skippy (1931) — Asta of The Thin Man films
- Socks (1989 to 2009) — First Cat of the Clinton White House
- Swansea Jack (1930 to 1937) — Retriever who pulled twenty seven people from the docks
- Tama (1999 to 2015) — Stationmaster cat who saved a railway and received a state funeral
- Terry (1933 to 1945) — Played Toto in The Wizard of Oz
- Togo (1913 to 1929) — Ran the longest and most dangerous leg of the serum run
- Trigger (1934 to 1965) — Roy Rogers' golden palomino, the smartest horse in the movies
- Unsinkable Sam (1939 to 1955) — Survived the sinking of three warships
- Winter (2005 to 2021) — Dolphin with a prosthetic tail who inspired millions
- Wojtek (1942 to 1963) — Soldier bear who carried shells at Monte Cassino