Meanings of four-footed friends in English

She ran out and found herself surrounded by her four-footed friends.

Sir Walter would often stop and talk to these four-footed friends and they seemed to understand what he said.

As the stranger approached it, however, the cries with which his feathered and four-footed friends greeted him were almost deafening.

There were hundreds of new four-footed friends in the park and palace; and hundreds of two-footed friends in the trees and dovecotes.

Our four-footed friends, less civilized, take things with more directness and simplicity, and chew each other up without ceremony, or swallow each other alive.

"What has happened, O four-footed friends," he asked, "that you mourn so mightily?"