ANIMALS

"Hey, look at those ducks!" (Running)

Animals with names
• Fosdick (Groupie)
• Tiger (Pilot)
• Friendly (Murder on Stage 17)
• Duvcha (Collector)
• Salty Babe (Action)
• Muhla Bull (Collector)
• Sandy (Losing Streak, Running)
• Hopeful (Action)
• Dusty (Action)
• Amnesiac (Action)
• Best Gal (Texas Longhorn)
• Proud Moment (Action)
• Foolish Pride (Heroes, Savage Sunday)
• Expensive Girl (Heroes)
• Pan Hand (Heroes)
• Fire Foot (Heroes)
• Sir Winston (Murder at Sea)
• King Bangor (Heroes, Savage Sunday)
• Cool Jazz (Heroes)
• Bo’s Folly (Murder Ward)
• Electroshock (Murder Ward)
• Cabrillo Kid (Murder Ward)
• Miss Bycroft’s Bug (Murder Ward)
• Dr. Jekyll (Murder Ward)
• Cheese Biscuit (Omaha Tiger, Tap Dancing)
• Cat’s Meow (Omaha Tiger, Tap Dancing)
• Soon/Now Henry (Omaha Tiger)
• Mouse ‘O War (Omaha Tiger, Tap Dancing)
• Squeaky Dancer (Tap Dancing)
• Little Minnie (Tap Dancing)

Insects, bugs and spiders
• A bee stings Hutch’s bum. (Bust Amboy)
• A fake fly scare is used at the meat counter. (Heroes)
• A gnat spitting on cotton is used as an example of Blind Bessie’s excellent hearing. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Fruit flies are used as a possible reason to close Andre’s. (Bust Amboy)
• Fruit flies are used as a possible reason to ground the Amapola. (Murder at Sea)
• Hutch refers to some bar patrons as cockroaches. (Avenger)
• Lord Harry offers to tattoo Starsky and Hutch with a black widow spider. (Murder at Sea)
• Starsky asks Goodson about the “birds and the bees.” (Rosey Malone)
• Starsky gives Hutch an ant farm. (Little Girl Lost)
• Starsky quotes Mohammed Ali, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Starsky teases Hutch about pretend spider (Satan’s Witches)
• Starsky is stung by a bee. (Avenger)
• Wally Stone's sister's plant has aphids. Hutch looks properly concerned. (Murder on Stage 17)
• Starsky is worried about fleas. (Satan's Witches)
• The Hornets is the name of a Marshal basketball team. (Starsky’s Lady)
• Gunther tells Bates, “There’s a fly in our ointment.” (Sweet Revenge)
• There are cockroaches in the derby. (Murder Ward)
• Todesco refers to a “mosquito’s mother.” (Class in Crime)
• There are flies on the flypaper at the restaurant. (Bust Amboy)
• Dobey complains Starsky and Hutch have "broken more rules than a centipede has legs." (Set-Up)
• Hutch tells Mardean he and Starsky are going to crack the hornets’ nest. (Targets 3)
• There are no crickets heard in the night at Pine Lake. (Satan’s Witches)

The iconic Mother Hen
• Dobey accuses Starsky of being a mother hen regarding Hutch. (Survival)

Bay City animals under the hood
• a lot of horses (Moonshine)
• a black and white cat (Targets 2)

Rodents
• Starsky asks, "Does a mouse like cheese?" (Action)
• There is mice racing. (Tap Dancing, Omaha Tiger)
• "Oh, you dummy, mice can't play musical instruments." (Shootout)
• Hutch finds a dead rat in his fridge. (Vendetta)
• Dr. Matwick has mice he is experimenting on. (Murder Ward)
• Louise is a guinea pig. Starsky wishes she were a chinchilla. (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• Starsky is concerned about chipmunks and beavers. (Satan's Witches)
• Blue Chinchillas are mentioned as fur coats. (Groupie)

Most useful animal in Bay City? The goat
• A goatskin rug is a scavenger hunt clue. (Murder at Sea)
• The cultists use goat’s blood in their ceremony. (Vampire)
• Hutch used goat’s milk for his health drinks. (Pariah, Bounty Hunter)
• Starsky asks Hutch, "What are we looking for? A man or a goat?" This clue makes them investigate Rusz' rooftop place. (Death Notice)

Alcohol is fed to animals
• Huggy feeds rum to a horse. (Playboy Island)
• Hutch feeds a scotch and soda to the dog, Fosdick. (Groupie)
• Hutch feeds scotch to Fat Rolly. (Pilot)
Cockroach Derbys and Mouse/Rodent Downs
• mice (Tap Dancing, Omaha Tiger)
• cockroaches (Murder Ward)

Lions and tigers and ...
• Starsky reminds Hutch not to forget the gorilla joke. (Shootout)
• A dead wild boar is hung in Starsky and Hutch’s window. (Playboy Island)
• Harry says of Madelaine, “The lady was a tiger.” (Deckwatch)
• Hutch says a live coroner's inquest on television will be like throwing Starsky to the wolves. (Pariah)
• Starsky tells Hutch, "Come to think about it, I've never seen a thin hippopotamus." (Silence)
• Starsky refers to Monty Voorhees as a pet. (Bounty Hunter)
* Starsky comments about Eddie, "Why do I get the feeling it's like watching a Christian head for the lions?" (Omaha Tiger)
• Starsky tells Hutch to go to a pet store. (Blindfold)
• Hutch tells Bettin, regarding Jojo, "the man's an animal." (Jojo)
• Hutch asks Starsky, "You ever see a fat lion, huh?" (Silence)
• Hutch tells Starsky, "Remember the lion, remember the lion." (Silence)
* Eddie Bell is the "Omaha Tiger." (Omaha Tiger)
* Hutch tells Starsky, "“You put a sport coat on a tiger and you’ve got a pussy cat.” (Omaha Tiger)
• There is a white rabbit in a cage in Matwick's lab. (Murder Ward)
• There's a lion calendar on the wall at the Stardust Bookstore. (Gillian)

Crustaceans
• Zack Tyler tells a story about scorpions. (Texas Longhorn)
• A lobster is seen. It's what Cheryl "really wants." (Bait)

Reptiles
• Starsky suggests alligators in the sewer got Bristol’s gun. (Collector)
• Wally Stone asks, "Or maybe I'm a turtle?" (Murder on Stage 17)
• Hutch tells Starsky he's had more intelligent conversations with a turtle.
• Connie threatens Starsky and Hutch with a "sack full of snakes." (Bait)
• Crocodiles are mentioned in the trivia book. (Bounty Hunter)
• Ernie Silvers is referred to as Starsky’s pet rattlesnake. (Game)
• Zack Tyler tells a story about frogs. (Texas Longhorn)
• Crocodiles and alligators are mentioned by Hutch. Starsky is afraid of them in the river. (Playboy Island)
• A rattlesnake is in the fridge. (Satan’s Witches)

Elephants
• Starsky’s rifle is referred to as “an elephant gun.” (Psychic)
• Starsky tells Hutch about a movie he saw on the late show about people “who were smuggling elephants.” (Terror on the Docks)
• Starsky refers to bad breath as “elephant breath.” (Heroes)
• Starsky sees Monty’s peanuts and comments, “You got a feeling an elephant lives here?” (Bounty Hunter)
• Officer Carl was killed with “enough poison in that glass to kill an elephant.” (Specialist)
• Olympic Arena is referred to as a “white elephant.” (Omaha Tiger)
• Starsky comments their plan is “as obvious as an elephant knitting in Times Square.” (Specialist)

Bears
• The waitress says Starsky is as “cute as a teddy bear.” (Losing Streak)
• An actual bear is seen. (Shootout)
• Huggy tells Starsky that “a bear gets a look at you and he'll die of fright.” (Fix)
• A bear growls. Hutch suggests it's a grizzly. Satan’s Witches)

Birds
• Starsky tells Hutch, "Hey, look at those ducks!" (Running)
• Woodfield tells Starsky and Hutch they are on "a wild goose chase." (Captain Dobey, You're Dead)
• Huggy has an "African Canary," a crow. (Nightmare)
• Hubert Stuffey imitates a Canadian snow goose. (Murder at Sea)
• Hubert Stuffey imitates a bobwhite. (Murder at Sea)
• A gaggle of geese is in Hutch's nightmare call sign. (Lady Blue)
• A partridge in a pear tree is in Hutch's nightmare call sign. (Lady Blue)
• Mrs.Carston tells Starsky and Hutch, "Hang gliding is for the birds." (Trap)
• Hutch tells Starsky, "Pray for pigeons." (Kill Huggy Bear)
• Hutch tells the desk clerk at Hotel Baltimore that they're looking for a "guy walking his duck." (Strange Justice)
• Hutch says, "When I walk out of this room, those guys watch me like a hawk." (Shootout)
• Starsky tells Forest, "You're man sung like a stuck canary." (Fix)
• Starsky asks Hutch, "What's the matter, you chicken?" Hutch's answer is, "Yeah." (Omaha Tiger)
• Starsky says about Bettin, "He's a turkey, can't talk to him." (Jojo)
• There are actual chickens in Huggy's taxi. (Playboy Island)
• "Running around in circles is dumb...unless you are a chicken," Starsky notes. (Rosey Malone)
• Starsky and Hutch talk of owls, eagles and turkeys in relation to sex and a good night's sleep. (Heavyweight)
• Starsky tells Dobey he hears seagulls. (Tap Dancing)

Fish and fishing
• “If you want the big fish, ya gotta have the big bait.” (Bait)
• “You disappeared out of Miami like a hooked bonefish,” Jackie says to John Colby. (Deadly Imposter)
• A fish tank is seen. (Crying Child, Terror on the Docks)
• Al Green is a loan shark. (Nightmare)
• Billy Harknes tells Danner Rafferty and O’Brien are “fishing the street.” (Bait)
• Both Starsky and Hutch fish. (Class in Crime, Satan’s Witches)
• Charlie the Muffler Woman last name is Sireen and she “don’t mean the fish, baby.” (Psychic)
• Cheryl refers to herself as “small fry.” (Bait)
• Corman and Burke go trout fishing at Bear Lake. (Snowstorm)
• Dobey, “hands are colder than a dead trout.” (Foxy Lady)
• Huggy is doing some fishing and being a real Gadabout Gaddis. (Targets 1)
• Humphries is referred to as a “smiling barracuda.” (Survival)
• Hutch feeds the fish at Vickie’s apartment. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• Hutch knows the dates of trout season. (Snowstorm)
• Hutch asks Guy, “How’s the fishing?” Starsky says, “Where’s your pole?” (Crying Child)
• Hutch says he is “just fishing,” not wanting to give Laura information. (Quadromania)
• Hutch wears a shark tooth necklace. (Bust Amboy, Disomania)
• Karpel is “down there on the rocks, fishing,” when Colby brings Karen down to the beach. (Deadly Imposter)
• Lisa’s case “smells fishy, like a three week old dead carp,” Hutch says. (Foxy Lady)
• Merle says Hutch’s car is “beneath my dignity, Man, lower than the belly of a flounder.” (Bloodbath)
• Molly decides to “go fishing” and she’s “the bait.” (Little Girl Lost)
• Monk wants to make Hutch “shark bait.” (Fix)
• Pine Lake is supposed to have “trout filled streams.” (Playboy Island)
• Starsky and Hutch are “two fish out of water.” (Murder at Sea)
• Starsky hopes to go marlin fishing on his vacation. (A Coffin for Starsky)
• Starsky refers to a bass. (Jojo)
• Dobey says, “We’re fishing with the right bait,” after a phony credit union checks up on Charlie McCabe. (Tap Dancing)
• Starsky says they “have a shark on their tail.” (Pilot)
• There is a goldfish bowl at the Jungle Club. (Bounty Hunter)

Animals with hooves
• “You can lead a horse to water, but a jackass usually finds his own way,” Turquet says. (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Buzzy plays the ponies and sometimes gets in over his head. (Golden Angel)
• Huey Chaco and pal argue over horseracing. (Texas Longhorn)
• Charlie puts his money on “the pinto.” (Tap Dancing)
• Dobey is a little too fond “of the ponies.” (Pilot)
• Starsky tells Hutch Rolly "screamed like a stuck pig." (Pilot)
• Hutch asks Starsky about the large peeing dog, "Aren't you glad she sold her pony?" (Pilot)
• Huggy races mice because horses are too big to get in the basement. (Omaha Tiger)
• Huggy tells Starsky and Hutch, "Dobey's a pretty good cop, but he likes the ponies too much." (Pilot)
• Joe has racing forms in his hotel; Joe loses money at horseracing. (Collector)
• One sees and hears an actual donkey. (Playboy Island)
• There are horses in Steve’s movie. (Murder on Stage 17)
• Starsky is impressed by Hank Munson’s truck, “You got yourself a lot of horses here.” (Moonshine)
• Starsky is afraid of the biting cows in the woods. (Satan’s Witches)
• Joe Fitch makes a crude reference to Marianne getting milked like a cow. (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• Forty buffalo is in Hutch's nightmare call sign. (Lady Blue)
• Starsky asks Hutch the name of Gene Autry’s and Tonto’s horse. (Action)
• Starsky calls Dispatch, “Our mule train just passed check point nine.” (Targets 1)
• Starsky is afraid of horses in the woods. (Satan’s Witches)
• Starsky and Hutch win their flash money in horseracing. (Action)
• Starsky tells Huggy, “For a man that looks like an Egyptian horse, your house is made of glass.” (Black and Blue)
• The phrase “beating a dead horse” is used. (Set-Up)
• Starsky is afraid of lovesick moose in the woods. (Satan's Witches)
• The phrase “pretty dead horses grazing in the sun” is a clue. (Psychic)
• There is horseracing. (Action, Heroes, Collector)
• Van is referred to as “a mule.” (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• There is a white horse in the corral at the Ivers’ barn. (Moonshine)
• Make Gunther take off his shoes; he probably has cloven feet. (Sweet Revenge)
• Hutch's nightmare call sign includes two hundred antelopes. (Lady Blue)
• Hutch's nightmare call sign includes forty zebras. (Lady Blue)
• Starsky and Hutch's joke involves a cow and a milk bath. (Shootout)
• Huggy fails the game show with the question, "Who was the greatest money making horse of all time?" (Death Ride)
• Freddie Lyle says he has a gun that could take out at rhino. (Murder Ward)

Cats (also see, Lions)
• A cat jumps out of the Torino’s engine. (Targets 2)
• Larry Horvath has a box of kittens. (Silence)
• Hutch has Big Cat Malt Liquor in his icebox. (Vendetta)
• Basil Monk has a cat who meows as Greta is sneaking around the lily pond. (Photo Finish)
• Cat’s Meow is the name of a racing mouse. (Omaha Tiger)
• Linda Baylor sings a smidge of “The Owl and the Pussycat.” (Fatal Charm)
• Starsky and Hutch pretend to be a member of the Wildcat Bowling League. (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• A woman in the crowd wears a Morris the Cat shirt. (Cover Girl)
• Lord Harry’s kitty, frightened by screeching car tires, is named Sir Winston. (Murder at Sea)
• A cat stuck in the Mission House ventilator is what clues folks in on Konig’s body. (Bounty Hunter)
• Huggy tells Starsky and Hutch, "Mean Joe Green is a pussycat compared to this Huggy Bear." (Texas Longhorn)
• Huggy says Dingle Dollies are "the perfect pet... cleaner than a cat." Starsky replies, "Cleaner than a cat?" (Hostages)
• Starsky tells Daimier, “Is a cat interested in mice?” (Action)
• Starsky tells Solkin his hotel room is nice, and "too bad you don't have a couple of kitty cats." (Vendetta)

Dogs
• “Guard Dog on Duty” signs are seen. (Death Ride, Collector)
• Huggy says Dingle Dollies are the perfect pet. They "eat less than a dog." (Hostages)
• A little white dog runs out of the Pruitt’s garage. (Las Vegas Strangler)
• A Dalmatian is seen. (Snowstorm)
• A German Shepard is being walked by the man that accosts Kira. (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• John Callum is murdered while walking his dog, a Golden Retriever. (Long Walk)
• Benson thinks he hit a dog with his car. (Quadromania)
• Blaze says it’s the Year of the Dog. (Targets 2)
• Dobey has “beware of dog” sign on his back gate, but apparently no dog. (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• Dobey tells Starsky and Hutch to get back to doing “poodle cuts.” (Dandruff)
• Fosdick is Melinda’s dog. (Groupie)
• Starsky and Hutch's joke, "Hello, hello, hello, I got a dog without a nose." (Shootout)
• Friendly the Doomed Dog is Steve Hanson’s dog. (Murder on Stage 17)
• Gramps tells Hutch, "If you want to snoop around like a basset hound, you'd best provide a search warrant in Braille." (Quadromania)
• Huggy holds a puppy at his store. (Nightmare)
• Hutch jokes it is a Border Collie at the end of his fishing line. (Class in Crime)
• Lisa gets a cute puppy, probably the one from Huggy’s Ark. (Nightmare)
• Manny Birnbaum is frightened that “some dingo is going to kill Ginger.” (Death Notice)
• Max, the six week old puppy, is hit by a car. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Mean guard dogs get after Starsky and Hutch. (Playboy Island)
• One of the Dingle Dollies is a Terrier. It says so on the box. (Hostages)
• Orange’s dog is named Sandy. (Running, Losing Streak)
• Renaldo complains of “Margo’s Yorkies.” (Groupie)
• Starsky mentions a seeing eye dog. (Blindfold)
• Starsky says “the hounds are really out tonight.” (Murder at Sea)
• Starsky brings up “Weimaraner Four” as a call name. (Lady Blue)
• The mean gun-sniffing dog is named Duvcha. (Collector)
• The peeing big dog is named Tiger. (Pilot)

The Spotted Dog (Snowstorm)
• It is seen at Huggy Bear’s.
• It is seen by Hampton and Division.
• It is seen by the underground parking garage.
• It is seen next to Huggy Bear’s.
• It is seen on the street by Crandell’s place, Starsky and Hutch from getting shot.

Why Friendly the Dog is killed (Murder on Stage 17)
• Friendly recognized Wally.
• Wally wanted to scare Steve and killing his dog was a good way to do it.

Descriptions of slippery things as animals
• Clay Zachary describes Lisa Kendrick “as slippery as a greased eel.” (Foxy Lady)
• Freddie describes Crandell as "about easy to hold on to as a greased toad.” (Snowstorm)
• The “water guy” describes the heavy water bottle on his shoulder as hard to manage as a “large glass snake.” (Murder on Stage 17)

Starsky and Hutch poke their heads out of a car window to look at an animal
• Starsky, "Hey, look at those ducks." (Running)
• Hutch, "Starsky, did you see that dog?" (Snowstorm)