62 Animal Puns That Are Fur-Ever Funny
Updated: May 14, 2024
Well, owl be darned. These animal puns are a hoot!
It’s time to unleash your inner comedian with our menagerie of the best puns featuring our furry, feathered and finned friends. These animal puns are sure to have you howling with laughter, chirping with delight and flapping your flippers with joy. Whether you’re a fan of classic knee-slappers, clever wordplay or animal jokes of all kinds, we’ve got a pun to tickle your funny bone.
So sit, stay and enjoy the best jokes the animal kingdom has to offer. Add them to your social media posts, text them to pals or keep them in your back pocket to use as snappy responses—just goat with it!
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The best animal puns
- To be or not to be a horse rider, that is equestrian.
- Don’t be so shellfish!
- Let minnow what you think.
- Whale, whale, whale … look who was right again.
- Get otter here!
- That’s the sealiest thing I’ve ever heard!
- I didn’t do it on porpoise.
- Whale hello there!
- A broke crustacean goes to a prawn broker.
- A duck’s favorite snack is cheese and quackers.
- I’m single and ready to flamingle!
- You have cat to be kitten me right meow.
- You gotta hire that bear. He has all the right koalafications.
- Alpaca my bags and go on vacation.
- I’m owl about that bass.
- I’m pawsitively in love with dogs.
- I’m not feline great—I’m feline fantastic!
- I’m otterly confused right now.
- You are ape-solutely hilarious.
- That puppy is fur-midable.
If your favorite animal puns are of the canine variety, you’re in luck. Unleash your sense of humor and get ready to roll over with laughter at these doggone hilarious dog jokes.
Funny animal puns
- Toucan play at this game!
- That toad is un-frog-ettable!
- I’m not trying to make a wise quack—you’re hilarious.
- I don’t know feather to leave or not.
- Ponies are the worst singers because they’re a little horse.
- That lazy kangaroo is a complete pouch potato.
- No probllama—I’ll deal with it later.
- Please, that’s irrelephant!
- I’d tell you my bird joke, but it’ll probably fly over your head.
- Never play poker in the jungle—there are too many cheetahs.
- Oh, the hu-manatee!
- The frog had to walk to work because his car was toad.
- That no-good lizard is a total crook-odile!
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other sidesplitting jokes about creatures big and small.
Cute animal puns
- Well, this is hawkward.
- That hen keeps counting her eggs—she’s a real math-a-ma-chicken!
- Cats stop videos by pressing the paws button.
- I had to take the owl back to the computer store because he kept eating the mouse.
- You’re so worldly and so fish-ticated!
- Rhino what you mean.
- The porcupine had reached a state of tran-quill-ity.
- Sorry, I’m a little crabby today.
- You goat this!
- Nothing is impossumble.
- The frog documentary was ribbeting.
- I’m not amoosed.
- Sometimes life isn’t ferret all.
We’re not going off the deep end—these puns are whale-y good. For more laughs, check out these goat puns. They’ll have you jumping for joy and feeling like a kid again!
Sweet animal puns
- I’m not lion: You’re the best!
- Owl always love you!
- You’re koalafied to be my friend.
- Ewe are the best thing that ever happened to me.
- You’re my significant otter.
- You octopi my thoughts all day.
- I’m crazy a-bat you!
- You’re shrimply the best.
- You moose be my lucky charm!
- I’m not horsing around. You’re a neigh-tural beauty.
- I’m dolphinitely in love with you.
- You’re the swan for me!
- You’re toad-ally awesome.
- Ferret about the past—let’s focus on the future.
- Iguana hold your hand forever.
- I’m quite fawned of you, my deer.
Loving these animal puns? Keep the giggles going by diving in to hilarious fish puns that will have you hooked on laughter.
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Originally Published: May 08, 2024
