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ANSWERING THE CALL
OF THE WILD
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ANSWERING THE CALL OF THE WILD
- PART 1: Curling Up With a Clowder of Cats - Pets
- PART 2: The Animals Have Gone Wild
- PART 3: Animals On Payroll Working the Farm
- PART 4: An African Safari or the City Zoo?
- PART 5: Creatures That Live Under the Sea
- PART 6: Birds of a Feather Flock Together
- PART 7: The Rapping Reptiles on the Riverbank
- PART 8: Pack Conspiracy of Animals
- PART 9: The Small & Mighty to Creepy Crawlies
- PART 10: Rise of the Mythical Beasts
CURLING UP WITH A CLOWDER OF KITTENS
HOUSE PETS
THE PURR OF A KITTEN
BEASTIE - a small animal you have affection for
HUSDJUR - house pet Iike a cat or dog or comfort animal.
KREESAL - When a dog or a cat curls up in a ball to sleep, you can call that “in a kreesal,” an old Scottish expression.
HUSDJUR - house pet Iike a cat or dog or comfort animal.
KREESAL - When a dog or a cat curls up in a ball to sleep, you can call that “in a kreesal,” an old Scottish expression.
CAT (Felis catus)
The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is called the domestic cat to distinguish it from wild cats. A cat can either be a house cat, a farm cat or a feral cat; The origin of the English word 'cat', Old English catt, is thought to be the Late Latin word cattus.
AILUROPHILIA - a fondness for cats
AILUROPHOBIA - fear of cats
CLOWDER - groups of cats
CLIMB-TACK - a mischievous cat who likes to investigate the shelves where you store your food
CUMLIN - an old word for a cat that spontaneously attaches itself to a new owner.
CUTTYCRUMB - an old Scots word for the sound of a purring cat, often used in the expression “to sing cuttycrumb.”
FIRE-SCORDEL - it is a cat that likes to sit idly by the fire.
GRANONS - a 17th century word for a cat’s whiskers, granons ultimately derives from an old Germanic word most likely meaning “mustache.”
MINIKIN - a very small, delicate creature like a kitten
SPITFIRE - as an adjective, spitfire has been used to mean “hot-tempered” or “irascible” since the early 1600s, but in the early 1800s, the word was applied to an enraged or irritable cat, and remained in use through to the turn of the century.
VIIKSET - whiskers of a cat
The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is called the domestic cat to distinguish it from wild cats. A cat can either be a house cat, a farm cat or a feral cat; The origin of the English word 'cat', Old English catt, is thought to be the Late Latin word cattus.
- NEKO- Japanese for cat
- GATTARA - an older lady who looks after stray cat
- GOTTO – Italian for cat
- QETTA - Arabic for cat
AILUROPHILIA - a fondness for cats
AILUROPHOBIA - fear of cats
CLOWDER - groups of cats
CLIMB-TACK - a mischievous cat who likes to investigate the shelves where you store your food
CUMLIN - an old word for a cat that spontaneously attaches itself to a new owner.
CUTTYCRUMB - an old Scots word for the sound of a purring cat, often used in the expression “to sing cuttycrumb.”
FIRE-SCORDEL - it is a cat that likes to sit idly by the fire.
GRANONS - a 17th century word for a cat’s whiskers, granons ultimately derives from an old Germanic word most likely meaning “mustache.”
MINIKIN - a very small, delicate creature like a kitten
SPITFIRE - as an adjective, spitfire has been used to mean “hot-tempered” or “irascible” since the early 1600s, but in the early 1800s, the word was applied to an enraged or irritable cat, and remained in use through to the turn of the century.
VIIKSET - whiskers of a cat
THE BARK OF A DOG
DOG (Canis)
The domestic dog (Canis familiar is when considered a distinct species or Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the wolf) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids. From the Old English docga, a late, rare word, used in at least one Middle English reference to a powerful breed of canine.
CYNOPHILE - fondness of dogs
HAINGLE - a Scottish nickname for a greedy or lazy dog in the early 19th century.
HUNDGIE - old Scottish word for an energetic dog.
PUGNOZZLE - coined by playwright Samuel Beckett in 1934 to mean “moving the upper lip and nostrils up and down in the manner of a pug dog.”
RUM BUFFER - a particularly fine or handsome dog.
SNOWK - to snowk something is to smell it like a dog—that is, by poking or pushing your nose into it.
TRUNDLE-TAIL - dating back as far as the 15th century, trundle-tail is an obsolete nickname for a dog with a fluffy, curly tail; Shakespeare used it in King Lear.
VIRE-SPANNEL - literally a “fire spaniel,” it is a dog that likes to sit idly by the fire.
WHIFFET - 19th-century American word for a small dog. It’s thought to be derived from whiff, in the sense of a light gust of wind, and is perhaps modeled on whippet.
The domestic dog (Canis familiar is when considered a distinct species or Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the wolf) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids. From the Old English docga, a late, rare word, used in at least one Middle English reference to a powerful breed of canine.
CYNOPHILE - fondness of dogs
- BANDOG- A powerful dog, often a mastiff or part mastiff, bred to be a watchdog
- BLUEY – a blue cattle dog that works excellently and the most favourite for Australians
- BLUE HEELER – Aussie cattle dog
- CANE – Italian for dog
- CHIEN- French for dog
- COTERIE - A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
- DINGO TAWNY – native Aussie dog
- FLEWS - the thick hanging lips of a bloodhound
- INU - Japanese for dog
- PERRO - Spanish for dog
- KOIRA - Finnish for dog
- TOWSER - a big dog
- KALB- Arabic for dog
- LIMER - A kind of dog kept on a lead; a bloodhound; a mongrel
- BITZER – mixed breed Australian dog; mongrel dog
- MERLE - Having a coat with irregular streaks or speckles of a contrasting color. Used of certain dogs.
- RACH - dog that hunts by scent
- SLAMHOUND - a modified canine used for assassinations
- SVANA – Sanskrit for dog
- TECKEL - dachshund
- WHELP - A young offspring of a carnivorous mammal, especially a dog or wolf.
HAINGLE - a Scottish nickname for a greedy or lazy dog in the early 19th century.
HUNDGIE - old Scottish word for an energetic dog.
PUGNOZZLE - coined by playwright Samuel Beckett in 1934 to mean “moving the upper lip and nostrils up and down in the manner of a pug dog.”
RUM BUFFER - a particularly fine or handsome dog.
SNOWK - to snowk something is to smell it like a dog—that is, by poking or pushing your nose into it.
TRUNDLE-TAIL - dating back as far as the 15th century, trundle-tail is an obsolete nickname for a dog with a fluffy, curly tail; Shakespeare used it in King Lear.
VIRE-SPANNEL - literally a “fire spaniel,” it is a dog that likes to sit idly by the fire.
WHIFFET - 19th-century American word for a small dog. It’s thought to be derived from whiff, in the sense of a light gust of wind, and is perhaps modeled on whippet.
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