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{{use British English |date=September 2022}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}{{short description |Domestic creatures kept by the British monarch}}File:Her Majesty's Favourite Pets.jpg|thumb|right|Victoria’s Favourite Pets, painted by Al in 1841, shows the spaniel Dash, Lory the parrot, the greyhound Nero and (deerhound]] Hector.{{citation |title=Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion |author=Helen Rapoo |pages=34–39 |chapter=Animals |year=2003 |isbn=9781851093557}})Queen Victoria and her close family kept numerous pet animals, including:

• Fatima – a Pug
• Alma – a Shetland pony given by King Victor Emmanuel
• Dandie – a Skye Terrier
• Dash – a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
• Eos – a greyhound which Prince Albert brought from Germany
• Flora – a Highland pony given by King Victor Emmanuel
• Goats – Mohammad Shah Qajar, the Shah of Persia, presented Queen Victoria with a pair of Tibetan goats upon her accession to the throne. From these, a royal goat herd was established at Windsor. Goats from this herd were then used as regimental mascots by regiments such as the Royal Welch Fusiliers.{{citation |title=Celebrated Pets: Endearing Tales of Companionship and Loyalty |page=104 |author=Cheryl MacDonald |year=2009}}
• Nero – a greyhound
• Islay – a Skye terrier. Victoria owned Islay for five years and he died after losing a fight with a cat.Paul Johnson, "And Another Thing", The spectator, 15 April 2000, p. 24
• Jacquot – a donkey
• Unknown name – a lory
• Looty – one of the first Pekingese in Britain, stolen from the Xianfeng Emperor of China, from his Chinese Summer Palace, during the Second Opium War{{citation |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/2105644/looty-the-pekingese:~:text=Photograph%20of%20one%20of%20Queen,Queen%20Victoria%20in%20April%201861. |title=Looty the Pekingese 1865 |author=William Bambridge |publisher=Royal Collection Trust |year=1865}}
• Marco – a small spitz which was the first of her many Pomeranians.{{citation |page=5 |title=Pomeranians |author=Joe Stahlkuppe |year=2000 |isbn=9780764110467 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/pomeraniansevery00stah/page/5 }}
• Hector – a deerhound
• Noble – the Queen's favourite collie. A statue by Princess Louise is in Osborne House.{{citation |page=39 |title=Animal Graves and Memorials |author=Jan Toms |publisher=Osprey Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=9780747806431}}
• Picco – a Sardinian pony
• Sharp – a collieBOOK, Anonymous, True Stories of Bird and Beast, 1890s, Blackie and Son, Glasgow, 1st,weblink WEB, Presberg, Carole, Queen Victoria's Border Collies,weblink The Border Collie Museum, 22 September 2015,
• Turi – a Pomeranian who lay on her deathbed at her request
• Coco – An African grey parrotWEB,weblink David Alderton on the joy of parrots, Alderton, David, 2002-04-05, The Guardian, en, 2018-03-01, BOOK,weblink 101 Amazing Facts about Queen Victoria, Goldstein, Jack, 2014, Andrews UK Limited, 9781783338146, en, NEWS,weblink MASTERPIECE {{!, What's Fact, What's Fiction in Victoria Season 2 Episode 7|work=Masterpiece|access-date=2018-03-01|language=en-US}}

See also

• Royal corgis
• Horses of Elizabeth II
• Caesar - King Edward VII pet
• Canadian Parliamentary Cats
• Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
• Tibs the Great

References

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