In Art Spiegelman's Maus, these animals represent the Poles.
In William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland, creatures resembling a cross between humans and these animals attack the Recluse. One of these animals nearly pines away when her keeper, George Cyril Wellbeloved, is sent to jail. That animal is the subject of various kidnapping schemes, some of them engineered by Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, who owns a rival animal named the Pride of Matchingam, later replaced with the Queen of Matchingam. That animal, the Empress of Blandings, is owned by Lord Emsworth in the Blandings stories of P. G. Wodehouse. In Art Spiegelman's Maus, these animals represent the Poles. The character Zhu Bajie resembles one of these animals in Journey to the West. In another novel, one of these animals composes the song "Beasts of England"; that character's philosophy is turned into the Seven Commandments by another one of these animals, Snowball. For 10 points, name this animal, exemplified by Squealer and Napoleon in Animal Farm.
In William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland, creatures resembling a cross between humans and these animals attack the Recluse.
pigs [accept equivalents]