Butterflies/Bees/Insects

· Bee in your bonnet

· Busy as a bee

· Butterfly kisses

· Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee

· Fly in the ointment

· Free as a butterfly

· He’s the bee’s knees

· Moth to flame

· Ornery as a flea

· Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite

· Social butterfly

· Would like to be a fly on the wall

Dogs/Cats

· All cats appear grey in the dark

· Cat’s got your tongue

· Cat’s pajamas

· Copy Cat

· Crooked as a dog’s hind leg

· Curious as a cat

· Curiosity killed the cat

· Dog day afternoon

· Dog days of summer

· Dog tired

· Dog’s life

· Don’t let the cat out of the bag

· Every dog has his day

· Fights like cats and dogs

· Fraidy cat

· He’s the cat’s meow

· He who lies down with dogs, rises with fleas

· Let sleeping dogs lie

· Like a flea on a dog’s hind leg

· Like two cats fighting

· Look at what the cat drug in

· Look like a cat that swallowed a canary

· Nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof

· Nervous as a caged lion

· Pants like a deer

· Puppy love

· Raining cats and dogs

· She’s a dog

· She is being catty

· There’s more than one way to skin a cat

· When the cat’s away, the mice will play

• You can't teach an old dog new tricks

Farm Animals

· A cock and bull story

· Big as a cow

· Bled like a stuck pig

· Bull in the china shop

· Can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

· Chew your cud

· Clothes horse

· Dirty as a pig

· Don’t beat a dead horse

· Don’t change horses in mid stream

· Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

· Dumb as an ox

· Eats like a horse

· Eat like a pig

· Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden

· Gentle as a lamb

· Happy as a pig in mud

· Handsome as a stallion

· Horse sense

· Looks like a pig sty

· Pearls before swine

· Pig in a poke

· Slow as a turtle

· Strong as an ox

· Stubborn as a mule

· Surefooted as a mountain goat

· Sweats like a stuck hog

· That’s a bunch of bull

· That got my goat

· Quick as a bunny

· Use everything but the pig’s squeal

· Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal

Fish/Frogs

· Fine as a frog hair

· Frog in my throat

· Knee-high to a grasshopper

· Like a fish out of water

· Plenty of fish in the sea

· Slippery as an eel

· Swim like a fish

· That’s a whole other kettle of fish

· When fish fly

Fowl/Birds

· A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

· A little bird told me

· As the crow flies

· Birds of a feather flock together

· Blind as a bat

· Bluebird of happiness

· Crazy as a loon

· Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

· Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

· Dumb as a turkey

· Eats like a bird

· Free as a bird

· Goose is cooked

· Happy as a lark

· He’s a sitting duck

· Henpecked

· Kill two birds with one stone

· Like water on a duck’s back

· Mad as a wet hen

· Night owl

· One swallow does not make a summer

· Picky as a bird

· Pigeon-toed

· Poor as Job’s turkey

· Protective as a mother hen

· Proud as a peacock

· Rare as hen’s teeth

· Run around like a chicken with your head cut off

· Silly as a goose

· Sing like a bird

· Sing like a canary

· Soar like an eagle

· The early bird gets the worm

· The goose that laid the golden egg

· This is ducky

· Up before the rooster crows

· What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

· Wise as an owl

Reptiles/Rodents

· Dirty rat

· If it was a snake it would have bit you

· Looks like a drown rat

· Mean as a snake

· Quiet as a mouse

· Poor as a church mouse

· Worm your way in

Wild Animals

· A leopard can’t change his spots

· Bear hug

· Bear market

· Big as an elephant

· Busy as a beaver

· Cross as a bear

· Ears like an elephant

· I’ll be a monkey’s uncle

· It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back

· Like a herd of wild elephants

· Make a monkey out of someone

· Monkey business

· Play opossum

· Runs like a cheetah

· Show your stripes

· Sly as a fox

· Wild as a buck

· Wild as a march hare

· “Zebra” love

· Wolf it down