Foster, Annabelle, and their pup Raoul (1995)
There have been many animals on GH over the years.
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- In 2006, Luke Spencer steals a chimpanzee from a tribe on the Markham Islands and brings it back to Port Charles. People in town begin getting sick, starting with Luke, and at first the chimp is blamed for the outbreak. It is discovered that Luke has encephalitis which was purposely released by Crylium Industries, a pharmaceutical company on the Markham Islands, that wanted to charge for the cure. Luke's body is used to make a serum for the first few patients and Holly Sutton has vials of the cure that are given to others but Tony Jones, Courtney Matthews, and Danny McCall end up dying from the virus.
- From the 2000s, Brutus the Badger is a stuffed badger in Sonny's Pozzulo's office. Maurice Benard describes Sonny as "tough like a badger" (Once nicknamed Bob the Badger)
- In 2018 and 2019, Dutch and Budgy were two of Lucy's llamas which she brought to the Nurses' Ball.
- In 2023, Bobbie Spencer and Maxie Jones hire llamas for The Nurses' Ball, per tradition.
- Shown in 2023, the team mascot for Port Charles University is the Tigers.
- In 2023, Sasha Gilmore poses with Ferdinand, the baby alpaca during a Deception Cosmetics photoshoot - wrangled by Cody Bell.
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Birds[]
- In 1990, when Cesar Faison is first seen he has several colorful birds including parrots around him.
- In 1994, Lucy Coe orders a special free range duck from Long Island for Thanksgiving dinner and she is given a live duck in a cage. She ends up making Sigmund the duck her pet.
- In 2022, Leo Quartermaine frees the live turkey that Olivia Quartermaine accidentally orders (she wanted a cooked turkey for Thanksgiving). He names it Mr. Wattle and the turkey destroys the Quartermaine Mansion.
- "Sprina Porcelain Turtle Doves" - While they are in Pentonville Penitentiary together, Cyrus Renault gave his great-nephew, Spencer Cassadine, with two porcelain turtle dove figurines he made in a rehab class. He offers them as an early Christmas present, one for Spencer, and the other for Trina Robinson, the girl he loves, as a token of his affection. Spencer is touched, knowing she would love them, and accepts the gift. Upon his release, when he sees Trina and believes he's lost her to her then-boyfriend Rory Cabrera, he entrusts the doves to his great-great uncle Victor Cassadine. (2022) Upon his death, Victor wills the turtle doves back to Spencer; who presents them to Trina several months later. Trina suggests they each own one, to remind themselves they are a matched pair and belong together. (2023)
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Dogs[]
- In the 1980s, as a child, Mike Webber had a dog named Corky.
- In 1988, Grant Putnam had a dog named Satan when he held Anna Devane captive.
- Foster and Annabelle were two bonded dogs in 1994. Foster was a French Mastiff owned by the Spencer family, and Annabelle was a French Briard owned by the Quartermaine family. They sired a puppy in 1995.
- Raoul, their puppy played by a Tibetan Mastiff, was given to Emily Quartermaine.
- In December 2011, Shawn Butler meets a service dog named Clyde. For Christmas, Carly Spencer gets Shawn his own dog to help with his P.T.S.D., whom he names Wilson. He later gives the dog away.
- In 2012, Olivia Quartermaine had visions of Maxie Jones with a puppy. It looked like a little wolf or a jackal, Damian Spinelli's nickname. Maxie had lost Lulu Spencer's surrogate child after chasing the puppy and she got pregnant by Spinelli.
- In 2016, Franco Baldwin gets Nina Reeves a puppy named Daisy after she finds out she can't have children. She tells him to get rid of the dog. Jake Spencer sees the dog at the hospital and wants it so Franco gives the puppy to Jake. Jason Morgan tells Franco that he can't just give a puppy to Jake. Monica Quartermaine offers to take the puppy for their groundskeeper, so Jake can visit the puppy anytime he wants. The puppy is renamed Annabelle II and becomes Danny Morgan's favorite dog when he is at the Quartermaine Mansion.
- In 2018, Harrison Chase brought a dog named Thor to Career Day in Willow Tait's class. In 2021, Chase tells Willow that Thor retired from the force and was adopted by a couple in Niagara Falls.
- In 2022, Carly Spencer meets an old woman in the Jacksonville Airport who has a dog named Gretel in a carrier.
- In 2022, while on a double date with their girlfriends, Yuri shares with Hamilton Finn that he has a Bearded Collie named Svetlana.
- In 2023, Spencer Cassadine is the Big Bad Wolf for a couples costumes for Halloween with Trina Robinson as Little Red Riding Hood.
- In 2023, Gloria Cerullo says the Brighton Bratva is after her Shih Tzu Ziti who is being watched by Francesca.
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Horses[]
- Tracy Quartermaine had an (off-screen) horse named Skittles during her childhood. She is delighted in 2012, when Luke Spencer tracks down it's offspring and buys her Son of Skittles for her birthday.
- Nina Reeves had an (off-screen) horse named Allegra who she helped foal when she was thirteen years old.
- Butterscotch is Charlotte Cassadine's favorite (off-screen) horse in the stables at Wyndemere Castle after she moved onto the island in 2016. After the stables burned to the ground in 2018, Butterscotch was moved to Winding Road Stables.
- In 2020, Sonny Corinthos and his dad Mike Corbin visited the racetrack and saw an unnamed horse (real name Pal).
- In 2022, Leo Quartermaine gets a white therapy horse named Comet (real name Leche) trained for autistic needs, which stays in the Quartermaine Stables.
- In 2022, Willow Tait tells Michael Corinthos that she bonded with a horse named Hector as a child until her family moved.
- In 2023, Wiley Corinthos names the new foal at the Quartermaine Stables Thor.
- In 2023, it is revealed that Josslyn Jacks fell off Whiskey, a Cassadine horse, and sprained her wrist when she was 10.
- In 2023, a new black horse Stance, is now housed in the Quartermaine Stables.
- In 2023, a new tan horse Trigger, is now housed in the Quartermaine Stables.
- In 2024, a new black horse Zorro, is now housed in the Quartermaine Stables.
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Reptiles[]
- In 2016, Hamilton Finn comes to town with Roxy, his Bearded Dragon service lizard. Finn brought Roxy home from a camping trip in Australia. Apparently a sickly Roxy wandered into Finn's tent after he left it unzipped while he was sleeping. When Finn watched Roxy shed her skin, he came up with an idea to cure himself and Hayden Barnes of Blackwood's Syndrome. He added some lizard D.N.A. to his serum and cured the "incurable" disease. After introducing his young daughter Violet Finn to Roxy, she considers her like a sister.
- In 2020, Nagini was a snake Charlotte Cassadine brought from Roger's Reptile Round Up. She hid the snake in Ava Jerome's purse.
