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Honey
- Voiced by: Lisa Kudrow
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Because of the comfortable yet tedious nature of her routine, Honey lusts after the mysterious Coyote lurking near the backyard due to her dashing looks and wild nature.
- A Pet into the Wild: She runs off with Armando for a short amount of time so they can be together.
- Arranged Marriage: Her relationship with Chief is portrayed as this – both were adopted by Jill at a young age and even have the dynamic of an old married couple despite not being an item. Crucially, Honey appreciates Chief despite her resentment at not having had a say on her choice of mate and his feelings are what ties her to the idea of staying home instead of eloping with Coyote.
- Bad Hair Day: As a way to get Coyote's attention, Honey subtly convinces Jill of accepting the pet groomer's recommendation of a new haircut. The result: a mailbox head, a roast from her patients, a night without al fresco defecation and an "accident" while stretching.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed. For all her psychoanalytical bluster, Honey often gets irritated at her patients whenever their topics of conversation derail, indulges in unprofessional dismissal when someone she doesn't like (e.g. Elsa) tries to open up and favors meaningful talks over trivial minutiae the rest of the group might prefer.
- But I Would Really Enjoy It: Honey always comes up with excuses to not run away with Coyote even as she clearly wants to. Lampshaded by him in "Who Are You?":Honey: Um, but my life is here, Armando, with the person and animals I love. Armando.
Armando: Okay. (chuckles) But you're lying to yourself.
Honey: (chuckles) Says Armando.
Armando: When you were talking about running away with me, your tail was wagging. In fact, it's wagging right now. - Chocolate Baby: Who's The Birthday Girl? reveals that she's not a pedigree Standard Poodle, but rather a mixed breed that's passing as a Standard Poodle. Honey's mother and siblings seem to resemble Labrador mixes themselves. It's unknown of Honey's sire was possibly a poodle or not.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To Chief (on a personal level) and the group (on an emotional scale).
- Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: Honey often struggles to remain level-headed within the group as sometimes the pets's issues can strike too close to home for her liking. Frequently, she can't help but be disdainful of Elsa's bragger attitude and often gets sidetracked from anyone's situation to reframe it on a way only applying to herself. Not helping is her inability to open up to the group as well as having little emotional support back home.
- Deadpan Snarker: It'd be hard to do her job without throwing a little shade toward her group of misfits.
- The Ditherer: She's torn between running away with Coyote and staying home with Chief and Jill, always postponing the decision.
- Flanderization: Season 2 removes any traces of her being an effective therapist or confidant, instead focusing more on how bad she is at her job. Season 1 also had her being fairly kind and gentle, with her nastier elements coming out due to outside influences or her relationship with Chief. Season 2 ramps up her selfishness and self-centeredness, to the point where most episodes have a subplot where she ends up having to humble herself to others.
- Good Feels Good: Honey downplays this. While she may at times have an ego stroke, Honey nonetheless does what she does out of (misguided) altruism and is real happy when she succeeds.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She used to be this with Big Cookie before she died.
- I Just Want to Be Free: Her crux is suffering a mid-(dog)life crisis brought upon by Big Cookie's death which makes her reconsider how much of her charmed life has been dictated by how to provide for others' needs rather than her own. Solely conceiving a pastoral idyll with Armando with none but earthly worries is very tempting to her.
- The Leader: Is the group's therapist, with all the sessions taking place in her living room.
- Love Triangle: While it borders on Imaginary Love Triangle due to the overt romanticization of a wild animal she's aware to be foreign to her sensibilities, Honey's main conflict in season 1 is to choose between Chief and Coyote – semi-partner in domestic life and emotional pretender roaming the backyard respectively. Maddening her is how Chief neglects her needs which pushes Honey toward Coyote even as her reticence stems from their similarly incompatible lifestyles. The season finale "Who's A Bad Girl: Part 2" has her eloping with the newly christened "Armando", only to dawn upon the more problematic, disgusting aspects of rustic living as well as the irreconcilably different paths she and the coyote have. By the end, she returns home with a new appreciation for her mundane, yet appeasing routine.
- Messy Male, Fancy Female: Chromatic fur difference aside, Honey's organized nature, respect for any boundaries set by her master and eternal search for enlightenment of herself and those near her contrasts Chief's messier, more carefree mindset.
- Ms. Imagination: Tends to have vivid dreams and fantasy spots, such as being a merdog or having jet paw pads.
- Nice Girl: For the most part, Honey is patient, caring and understanding.
- Not So Above It All: Despite being smarter than Chief, she still shares canine interests with him, namely smelling disgusting things, rolling on the bed and hating on squirrels.
- Only Sane by Comparison: Very rational in group therapy and moron handling. Romance, need for appreciation and control? Not so much.
- Only Sane Woman: To her group and her household, which doesn't exempt her from possessing a few neuroses.
- Pink Is Feminine: Her only garment is a pink fuchsia collar.
- Surrounded by Idiots: As her intellect dwarfs that of the rest, she often feels suffocated by how little they take the reunions seriously, especially in matter of opening up.
- Team Mom: To the group. She often checks on their issues, meddles when feeling they aren't taking the right path in their lives and nurtures an understanding environment for everyone.
- The Shrink: A mix of Type 2 and Type 3. Honey isn't licensed by any means in psychological fields, therefore using experience and random hypothesis to diagnose her fellow animals' problems; the majority of advice is hit-or-miss which can either lessen the patients' worries or add further turmoil in their lives. However, "Who's A Good Therapist?" and "Who Done It?" show how her advice and insistence comes from a genuine place and is crucial in keeping the pets afloat (lest someone else comes with ill advice...) and whatever the quality of her practice may be, she offers a comforting ear for those who have none.Nathan: Honey's a fraud and she's not qualified to help any of you.
Elsa: That might be true, but she also cares about us. - Tragic Bromance: Rare Female Example. A lot of Honey's issues and anxieties with her life stem from the death of Big Cookie, her closest friend and confidant.
- Uncatty Resemblance: Her desire to apply therapy to aid fellow peers is influenced by eavesdropping on her owner Jill's therapy sessions.
Chief
- Voiced by: Nat Faxon
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Always wears a green neckerchief. In "Who Did This?", he briefly gets a red one after being groomed.
- Ambiguously Bi: He is more or less married to Honey and calls her pet names like babe. He also got angry when he heard that she briefly ran off with Armando the coyote. However, when he went to confront him Chief started talking about how handsome Armando looked which lead to them running all night – paralleling Honey's Falling-in-Love Montage. Chief even sings that he might have a crush on him.
- Arranged Marriage: His relationship with Honey is portrayed as this – both were adopted by Jill at a young age and even have the dynamic of an old married couple despite not being an item. While Chief is dimly aware of Honey's annoyance at his habits and rarely caters to her needs, he appreciates her and often tries to encourage her with simple and flawed wisdom.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Chief can get distracted by anything and will often forget information no less than five seconds after someone has told him. The reason he breaks up his group in "Who's Going to the Vet?" is because he couldn't focus on everyone's talking outside of an environment where there was nothing else to do.
- Betty and Veronica: The comely, sluggish Betty to the alluring, mysterious Coyote's Veronica for Honey's Archie.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Chief is always a friendly dog despite his size, and he almost never gets aggressive, but it's because of his size that gives him the potential to be intimidating. After Honey upsets another dog couple and the male confronts her, Chief instantly comes to her defense and angrily barks at the other dog, which visibly intimidated him until the handlers had to get Chief away from him.
- Together, he and Honey also turn scarily aggressive towards the dog-sitter Jill hired during Christmas, whom they believed was a robber when he tried to get into their house.
- Big Friendly Dog: Huge, outgoing and an eternal optimist.
- The Ditz: Out of the animals, Chief is the dumbest and most gullible.
- Dogs Are Dumb: He isn't very bright, such as not knowing what three means. When he's briefly drugged from licking toad juice, he surprisingly averts this.
- Drop-In Character: Chief is the only character who isn't in the group and staunchly refuses to join despite Honey's insistence. However, since he lives there and has little tact and self-control, he often interrupts the sessions.
- Establishing Character Moment: In the very first scene of the series, Chief is chasing squirrels instead of participating in group and when he does come in, the squirrels trick him into running straight into a solid glass window.
- Extreme Omnivore: Is not averse to eating socks and mud, and in one episode ate a vibrator.
- Gasshole: Chief is constantly farting, and is quite fond of it.
- God for a Day: In "Who's Afraid of Boomsday?", Chief runs into a pod of sea lions who proclaim him their god. They cater to his every need, and feels no need to return home. It all ends when everyone gets spooked by fireworks and Chief gets stranded at sea, having to be saved by Honey, Elsa, and the sea lions.
- Guys are Slobs: He enjoys splashing in the mud, has appetites for disgusting food and makes loud noises when eating.
- Happily Adopted: Adopted by Jill when she found him eating garbage outside of a feminist strip club.
- Higher Understanding Through Drugs: "Who's Getting Cold Feet?" implies his fickle attention span is what clouds any semblance of genius within him. Once he licks toad juice, Chief becomes eloquent, mellow and capable of forming complex arguments.
- Innocently Insensitive: Is like this a lot to Honey.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. Chief is buffoonish and uncouth but he's also a very loving, playful and protective pet to Jill as well as a loyal partner to Honey. And while he gets on her nerves, he does try to encourage her to let loose and just have a good time with him.
- Manchild: Has little to no discipline and is instantly on the same wavelength as Little Cookie the puppy.
- Messy Male, Fancy Female: Contrasting fur aside, Chief cavorts on nature's filth and prefers the simple, messier life of a pet compared to Honey's search for meaning.
- Slobs vs. Snobs: His messy, often disgusting habits are almost always put at odds with Honey, who at least tries to be beyond a dog's grosser tendencies to the point where she comes off snobbish and judgmental.
Elsa
- Voiced by: Clea DuVall
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Aside from lacking Tertiary Sexual Characteristics but having a clear feminine voice, she also mentions that she prefers not to be limited by the binary spectrum and answers to female pronouns. One episode has Chief misnaming her as "Elson", yet no one bothers to correct him, not even her.
- Attention Whore: She doesn't care to do anything unless other people are there to praise her. No-one ever takes it seriously, though.
- Depending on the Writer: Her relationship with Honey. She's either trying to usurp her place as the leader of the group or desires her approval as her Number Two.
- Desperately Craves Affection: Beneath her thinly confident façade, Elsa has a neglectful owner and longs for companionship, considering the group as True Companions. Some of her dialogue implies she'd settle for Honey's friendship and approval rather than her spot as leader.
- Drama Queen: Fitting her desire for attention, Elsa is the first to overreact (negatively) to any disaster, even as she brags her service dog training. "We're going to die!" may as well be her catchphrase.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: "Who's Afraid Of Boomsday?" reveals she isn't a "real" service dog, her vest just an ornament her owner bought online in order to take her places where non-service animals normally aren't allowed. She spends the rest of the episode in an identity crisis over who she is until Honey and Chief are in danger, which makes her leap into surprisingly effective action.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: The group is often annoyed by her due to interrupting others to talk about herself, constantly boasting of being perfect and her obliviousness to her Bad Liar tendencies.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Implied. Most of her background shows her as unbelievably neglected back home by her owner (to the point of being forgotten in Coachella in a flashback in the pilot), for whom she has to care during her binge drinking. Despite her braggadocious, most of the group's insults toward her trigger two reactions: cower in embarrassment or double-down in her ignorant beliefs, with the latter an attempt of being acknowledged as competent and important, compliments she craves.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When she asks Honey if she wants to talk about Big Cookie's death, it seems more like Elsa is the one who wants attention. However, she is right that Honey isn't actually okay.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite how pretentious Elsa acts, the fact that she was genuinely concerned about the Gray One when he ends up caught by animal control on account of a shady Raccoon says a lot.
- The Lancer: Sees herself as the number two of the group, but nobody else agrees.
- Leader Wannabe: Jumps at the chance to run group when Honey gets boarded. The others only let her do it because she's disastrous at it, and they want a laugh.
- Nervous Wreck: The first to panic during an emergency. Ironic, given she's (allegedly) an emotional support dog.
- Opinion Override: To say she's the only out of the group who seems to have a problem with things the rest don't care about would be overstating it.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Her diminutive name, stature and low position in the group's hierarchy is inversely proportional to her enormous ego.
- Soapbox Sadie: Can't resist voicing her opinion over everything, preferably over details not relevant to any discussion within the group.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her advice in "Who's a Good Therapist?" is what leads to Tabitha running away and dealing with those plights in later episodes.
Tabitha
- Voiced by: Sharon Horgan
- Abandoned Pet in a Box: Remembers being one as a kitten.
- Beast and Beauty: With the Gray One. Tabitha retains much of her attractive looks from her pet circuit days despite her withering youth, courtesy of a grooming routine and excellent care by her owners; Gray lacks an eye and relies on below-acceptable living conditions from his owner and his numerous roommates.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Ran away to a cat café to get attention... only to come across one person who was obsessed with her to the point of trying to catnap her.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: She knows she's beautiful. However, due to her fading looks and a prettier, younger kitten in her household, she wishes people would still appreciate her looks (herself, by extension).
- Not So Above It All: Despite her conceited royal attitude, she laughs at Max's roasting of Honey's bad haircut. Also, she hates sirens and the 4th of July's celebrations as much as the other pets.
- Official Couple: With The Gray One as of "Who Done It?".
- Paper-Thin Disguise: When The Gray One and Chico bump in her while looking for tough cats at the cat cafe, Tabitha pretends to be a different cat named Magnolia. It gets even worse as when she claims to be from Nashville and Chico asks how she got here, she replies by submarine. Surprisingly, Chico never figures out that Magnolia really was just Tabitha.
- Proud Beauty: Always lauded for her beauty which earned her a grand place in pet contests, a badge she wore with pride and class. These past glories only make it harder for her to acclimate to her dented looks.
- The Runaway: Becomes this as of "Who's A Good Therapist?" to get her owners' attention. She initially lives in a cat café, before moving into The Gray One's place.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Once the unwanted flirting is toned down, Tabitha becomes drawn to the Gray One due to how caring, nice and understanding he is during her time as a stray. She even admits to Elsa in "Who Done It?" the reason she hasn't being open about their relationship is because she wants to be sure he does love her.
- Uptown Girl: Well-kept grooming and finesse for expensive delicacies aside, Tabs's owners are shown to be pretty well-off, compared to the Gray One's squalid living. Lampshaded in "Who's A Bad Girl? Part 1" when she returns home, as she warns Gray her owners might harm him if they see him outside.
- White-Dwarf Starlet: She used to be a beauty queen before her current life, and struggles with the changes. The fact that her owners have another kitten in addition to her doesn't help much.
Chico
- Voiced by: Sam Richardson
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Chico is usually presented as male, complete with a masculine voice. But then four episodes later, he gave birth to a litter of kittens. He doesn't stop identifying as male, though.
- Big Eater: He eats a lot of food at once, especially when his owner, Kevin, goes out of town.
- Buffoonish Tomcat: Chico is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He didn't realize he was pregnant until he gave birth, thinks petting gets someone pregnant and has no idea how sex works at all.
- Good Parents: Implied. When his litter of kittens appear to him as a toad-induced hallucination, he cheerfully greets them and bids them farewell as they float off into the sky, stating that he hopes they "found their Kevins", hinting that they were given up for adoption and Chico cared for them enough to hope they went to good homes.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With the Gray One, although Chico is the more invested out of the two.
- Post-Stress Overeating: Overeats whenever his owner leaves out of town. Unfortunately, Kevin is a flight attendant, so Chico overeats a lot.
- Self-Serving Memory: Chico often over exaggerates how affectionate his owner Kevin is. The season one finale reveals that Chico used this on their entire relationship, as Chico actually belonged to Kevin's ex-girlfriend originally, whereas he had spoken of Kevin as if he'd always belonged to him.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The almost childlike, needy tabby cat contrasts with The Gray One's more street wise, independent persona. He's also this to his owner Kevin by virtue of being the most invested of the two in the relationship.
- Super Gullible: He'll take anything at face value, even when evidence to the contrary is presented. He never assumed the cat rubbing against him is the father of his kittens and can't tell when Gray and Tabs are being openly flirty.
- Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: While initially presented as a fat tomcat, "Who's A Good Therapist?" revealed he was actually pregnant when he started giving birth in the middle of a session. This comes as a surprise to everyone, including him.
The Gray One
- Voiced by: Jason Mantzoukas
- Abhorrent Admirer: He openly flirts with Tabitha, much to her disgust. Though she has been recently warming up to him after running away from home. They officially become a couple as of "Who Done It?".
- Arch-Enemy: The Raccoon, due to the grapple they had which caused him to be sent to a shelter.
- Bad Butt: Technically a housecat but from a rougher environment and unafraid of picking fights with wild animals.
- Beast and Beauty: With Tabitha, seeing as she's a well-groomed former show pet while Gray is a Blue Russian with plainer features and a disfigured face.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: A cruddy home life with low life expectancy, minimal nourishment and constant fighting has made the Gray One unflappable toward danger. He and the other cats have even made a routine in which they play out musicals as a way to distract themselves from killing each other.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Just "The Gray One", "Gray" to the friends.
- Eyes Always Shut: His right eye is missing. In "Who's Wild?" it gets briefly replaced as a marble.
- Face of a Thug: Gray's face may reflect his chaotic living conditions and dysfunctional family unit but it doesn't speak of his genial personality.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Chico.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Thanks to his owner who watches romance movies all day. His therapy for the bereavement of Big Cookie's death is watching The Fault in Our Stars and cry himself dry.
- Iron Butt Monkey: Tends to suffer misfortunes the most out of the main cast, with his backstory explaining the loss of his eye to constant household fighting with his felines roomies. Despite this, he often takes it in stride and is never truly worse for wear.
- Nice Guy: He may play the subterfuge card to get a meal but he's a decent cat.
- Official Couple: He eventually gets with Tabitha.
- Properly Paranoid: ZigZagged. He's the only pet who still doesn't fully trust Raccoon due to his past transgressions, although he's content with just keeping an eye on him. His suspicions are half-correct most of the time as Raccoon is self-serving but his schemes barely rise above petty annoyances.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The confident, sneaky Manly Man to Chico's passive, gullible Sensitive Guy.
- Street Smart: Having survived a house with sixty cats and a slovenly owner, he knows how to play a situation in his favor. When Chico mentions abundance of food at his place, he wastes no time mooching off him and his first instinct when seagulls take over the seafood garbage bin is to recruit backup.
- Too Hungry to Be Polite: Due to his lack of communication skills, Gray befriends Chico with the added intention of eating for free on his food rations without intending to explain his situation. The tabby cat eventually calls out his deception but once they talk it out, Chico admits Gray's lack of options for any food source.
Shel
- Voiced by: Will Forte
- Birds of a Feather: in addition to sharing an owner, he and Lenny are quite chummy since they share a chatterbox speech and obliviousness to their flaws (Shel's over-explanations of explicit sex, Lenny's questioning of irrelevant issues).
- The Bore: As far as Chief is concerned. The others simply find him way too descriptive in his sexual proclivities.
- Cloudcuckoolander: To an extent. As time goes on, it becomes more apparent that he believes that Lindsay the croc is actually alive.
- Dirty Old Man: The oldest member of the group (being a long-living tortoise and all) and very open about his carnal pleasures, even inviting Honey to join if she wants.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Due to his open discussion of sexuality and acceptance of all carnal pleasures, Shel has no problem continuing the relationship with Lindsay the croc. Even once Darla returns and their relationship evolves into a treacherous throuple, he can't help but flirt with another footwear while hiding in a closet.
- His Heart Will Go On: Shel is a tortoise who lost his mate, Darla, and has spent 15 years mourning her. At the beginning of the series, he's become desperate to meet a new one. He falls in love with what he thinks is another tortoise, but then realizes he was humping a misplaced Croc. After getting over this, he decides to continue the relationship. He eventually becomes disillusioned when Darla turns up alive at his "wedding".
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: A one-sided example. Shel likes to think him and Max are this, but Max does not.
- It's All About Me: Shows some shades of this. The rest of the group didn't even know he lives with other animals because he only talks about himself.
- Kissing Under the Influence: After licking a toad during his bachelor party, Shel ends up hallucinating Lindsay in Raccoon's mouth. Since the latter is tripping as well, they end up making out.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": A tortoise named "Shel". Geddit?
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: He doesn't have the best track record of choosing mates since Darla. He ends up making love to a croc before noticing what it is and later attempts to rebound by proposing to a boot in Jill's closet.
- The Missus and the Ex: Once Darla returns, his interactions with her and Lindsay devolve into this especially when they attempt to engage in a threesome only for Shel to become a Third Wheel when the girls prefer each other.
- Morality Chain: He acts like one to Nibbles when they briefly share house with his presence bothering the hamster enough to save her annoying neighbor Lenny from being digested by a snake.
- Really 700 Years Old: As a tortoise, he's bound to become this not only to humans but also to his fellow pets, having a life expectancy of 200 years whereas his friends can only hope to live from a few years to a couple decades at most. Honey's Imagine Spot in "Who's Getting Cold Feet?" even involves his 200 years anniversary with Darla, showing a futuristic city in the background while Honey herself attends the event as a Futurama-esque cyborg.
- Sex Is Good: Shel openly vents to the group any physical romp or desire he feels at the moment and prefers a no-taboo environment, which the others find discomforting.
Diablo
- Voiced by: Tony Hale
- Absurd Phobia: One of the reasons he joins is to overcome his fears, especially being scared of the toaster.
- Ambiguously Bi: Effeminate and sensitive to the point of being on the girls' side of Shel's stag party; this doesn't stop him from a Held Gaze with Nibbles and then awkwardly backing off from making out.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: Nibbles suggests they kiss in "Who Done It?" and Elsa assumes he's in love with her after a failed attempt to woo another dog, much to Diablo's confusion.
- Dork in a Sweater: A sensitive and neurotic little terrier, and wears a doggy sweater vest.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Even after the group more or less accepts him in, he isn't very popular among them. Even Honey, who tries to help nearly everyone she meets, finds him annoying.
- Ironic Name: "Diablo" means devil in Spanish, the meaning of which hardly fits a skinny, neurotic Terrier.
- Nervous Wreck: He is constantly stressed.
- Replacement Goldfish: Honey invites him to her therapy group in order to fill the gap Big Cookie left behind.
Max
- Voiced by: Tony Hale
- Everyone Has Standards: Max can be a bit of a jerk, but when he mocks the group he mostly tries to be good natured or at least playful about it. When Nathan insults and degrades the group and especially Honey, Max immediately expresses how much he hates him despite being one of the few Nathan didn't personally insult.
- The Gadfly: He pretty much attends the sessions to roast and heckle the other members of the group.
- It's All About Me: Neither "humble" nor "accommodating" are within Max's range of virtues. He basks on having a better status than the rest and can't help but namedrop his connections with minor prodding.
- Pet the Dog: When he believes he is leaving for London, he says a bunch of nice(-ish) things to the group as part of his goodbye.
- Replacement Goldfish: "Who Are You?" reveals he's this to the original Max, and he goes into an identity crisis about it.
- Too Much Alike: The main reason why he and Tabitha are each other's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis – same ego and wealth. The only difference is he has no competing peers which puts him in a better position, all the more to mock her diminished status or her moving with The Grey One. Once Max is revealed to be a pet surrogate, she wastes no time pouring salt in the wound.
Nibbles
- Voiced by: Bresha Webb
- Ax-Crazy: Not the most stable animal around.
- Black Widow: She killed her mate by eating his face. In a twist, it's implied his only crime was to piss her off.
- Blood Knight: Ready to brawl at a moment's notice. Just ask Tchotchke.
- Child Hater: Downplayed. Nibbles doesn't hate her class but due to the unwanted attention she attracts from all children, she prefers more responsible weekend owners over the handy, careless ones. Not having a say on whom she goes home with is often the source of her explosive resentment.Turns out Ella B wanted to take me home from school so Sophie R didn't get me.
- Class Pet: Is the pet hamster to a third grade class, and occasionally gets taken to the homes of the students.
- Crocodile Tears: Nibbles just can't pull a regretful act about any of her actions and most of the group doesn't buy it anyways, what with her combative nature and joy at killing.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her ambivalence toward morality and regret, she genuinely appreciates the group and sees them as her friends in her own twisted way.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite her combative temper and short fuse, she's horrified when Diablo blurts out that he bit Ian, his owner's boyfriends year-old son.
- Nibbles: "You take it and you take it and you TAKE IT!"
- Fluffy the Terrible: A disturbed, violent hamster with a name as innocuous as Nibbles.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Gets angry at a lot of things.
- Harmless Villain: Dangerous as she is, most of the group tower over her short physique and thus see her as a creepy but manageable weirdo. Her relationship with Tchotchke also shows she can roughhouse innocently with those not pressing any of her buttons. God help you though if you're smaller and an annoyance to her.
- Hates Being Touched: Any student can touch her even if she doesn't want to. Her introduction in the credits even shows her trying to bite off the finger of a kid who keeps pinching her.
- Hidden Depths: Due to spending most of her year in a classroom, she (sort of) knows how to read and some trivia about other topics, like how snakes can only digest in a warm environment.
- Insane Equals Violent: Played With. During her vicious outbursts, Nibbles remains composed because of their soothing release. She only becomes a snarling maniac when discussing the subjects of her hatred without accomplishing any catharsis by inflicting pain upon them.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite how evil she usually is she felt legitimately bad about Lenny dying and saved his life.
- Laughably Evil: Her violent antics are Played for Laughs. Her frightening demeanor contrasts her miniature frame, insane nature and the over-the-top nonchalance of her amorality.
- The Napoleon: Small, bombastic and very resentful.
- The Sociopath: A realistic example. Nibbles isn't devoid of appreciation for the group with attention to social etiquette when at her most calm. However, she's willing to harm anyone her size or smaller on a whim based entirely on how they have slighted her, has no remorse and gloats over her misdeeds and fails to recognize any of her actions as wrong.Honey: Well, Nibbles, you're certainly looking more rested today.
Nibbles: Because I finally got a decent night's sleep! When I got back home yesterday, Lenny wasn't inside his cage. He was inside the snake! Poor bastard kept talking about food, never realizing he was food.
(Nibbles laughs, not realizing everyone's looking at her in horror)
Nibbles: What?
Diablo: Oh, no, nothing. You're just a monster. - Token Evil Teammate: The only group member who has committed unrepentant murder.
- Twitchy Eye: Occasionally, her left eye appears half-lidded fitting her unstable character.
Tchotchke
- Voiced by: N/A
- Cute Mute: Silent, loyal to Honey, helpful to anyone who may ask for his help, small and adorable.
- Iconic Item: His small umbrella, which he uses to communicate and brings everywhere. He's heartbroken when Jill breaks it in "Who Done It?" and Raccoon giving him a replacement is what kickstarts their Odd Friendship.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine Boy to Nibbles's Masculine Girl. Especially highlighted in "Who's Afraid of Boomsday?" when they decide to have a fight rematch, since in the previous ones Tchotchke lost his champion title.
- Morality Pet: Seems to be one for Raccoon. Raccoon enjoys his company and is convinced to help save Chief and Honey from Armando's pack by him.
- To an extent, he also acts as one for the less friendly animals, with Max calling out the group for upsetting Tcohtchke, Honey always appreciates him, Nibbles likes to play wrestle with him but without any intent to hurt him and even Chief (who isn't unfriendly and merely insensitive at times) treats him nicely by letting him hitch a ride during zoomies.
- Nice Guy: Always ready to pitch in or cheer up anyone.
- Number Two: Despite what Elsa may want, he functions as this to Honey.
- Seldom-Seen Species: He's a slow loris, an animal not commonly seen in cartoons.
- Token Good Teammate: The nicest of the group.
- The Voiceless: Doesn't speak and instead communicates by opening and closing a cocktail umbrella. In "Who's Getting Cold Feet?", it's shown that they have a high-pitched squeal that can control ants. This is a little Truth in Television, as slow lorises don't vocalize all that much but it stands out here since the other animals we see can and do talk.
Recurring characters
Jill
- Voiced by: Maria Bamford
- Abusive Parents: Her mother is shown to be emotionally manipulative of her and makes it clear she prefers Nathan (her pet parrot) over her daughter.
- Chronic Pet Killer: Of her goldfish, actually. Honey didn't say how many pet goldfish Jill had before Bubbles, we do know that she ain't real good at taking care of them, considering that Bubbles lives in a fishbowl.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: For a therapist, y'all would think Jill would use some of her skills for her clients on herself when it comes to her mother but she doesn't. Actually, some of her coping mechanisms might be what she would call maladaptive.
- The Dutiful Daughter: She may hate her but while she's visiting, Jill will tend to her mother's every whim. Honey can't help but notice how these visits affect Jill.
- Hates Their Parent: Not openly, but Jill only spreads her mother's horrible gifts through the house whenever she comes to visit – most of the time, they're packaged in the shed. She can't help but be miserable whenever her mother bosses her around and often recurs to the mantra "detach with love".
- Higher Understanding Through Drugs: In "Who's Trippin'?", she briefly gains the ability to talk to the animals via ayahuasca.
- Parental Favoritism: Downplayed. According to Nathan, Jill's favorite pet is Honey; however, she is likewise affectionate toward Chief.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Is this to Honey and Chief.
- Survival Mantra: "Detach with love", used to better endure her mother.
Bubbles
- Voiced by: Greta Lee
- Artistic License – Animal Care: Goldfish do better in ponds and tanks, not fishbowls.
- Brutal Honesty: Bubbles does not sugarcoat anything she says.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has no shortage of snarky remarks.
- The Pigpen: A very realistic example, as anyone who has ever owned a goldfish can attest; she can often be seen with a string of poop casually hanging from her rear end.
- Replacement Goldfish: Literally. Honey offhandedly mentions she's a replacement for another goldfish Jill had. Bubbles had no idea of this.
Coyote/"Armando"
- Voiced by: Brian Tyree Henry
- Actually, That's My Assistant: For the largest part of season one, Honey assumes he is the alpha of his pack. In "Who's A Bad Girl? - Part 2" it's revealed that despite his skills and intelligence, he isn't the leader at all; in fact, he says he's the self-appointed "poet" of the pack. The real alpha is actually much more intimidating and no-nonsense.
- Ambiguously Bi: He spend the first ten episodes doing nothing but flirting with Honey. He also befriends Chief and runs with him the same way he did with Honey. He also didn't mind when the San Bernardo fell asleep on his shoulder and even told him that he is so awesome that it would make sense that Honey would pick Chief over himself.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Due to his pack moving to another town, he does not appear in the second season.
- Never Given a Name: Honey unofficially names him "Armando" at the end of "Who Are You?".
- Pet the Dog: Apparently, at some point in the past, he saved a sledding human child from being hit by a car. It was even during Christmas Day to boot.
- Put on a Bus: He has not made an appearance in Season 2, barring a single mention.
- Uptight Loves Wild: Inverted. Coyote lives in the wild and has a nomadic life yet he's attracted to the straight-laced pet Honey.
Raccoon
- Voiced by: Timothy Simons
- Big Guy, Little Guy: With Tchotchke after they become shed mates. Also sometimes this with Small Fun Raccoon.
- Easily Forgiven: Apparently, despite what happened between him and the pets in the third episode, they seem to have gotten over it when they meet him in the next.
- Freudian Excuse: He claims to have never known his dad and given what he calls cars, it's very likely his mom was run over by one. However, even if true, it's unknown much it affected him.
- Friendly Enemy: After a rocky start, he develops this relationship with the therapy group. Eventually, he and Honey develop enough trust that he's allowed to sleep in the shed in exchange for random services like drying the pets after a rainy storm.
- Incidental Villain: He antagonizes Honey and the group the one time he's invited, followed by raiding the house's pantries with his gaze. However, the pets still accept him as Raccoon shows an amiable side whenever he and the pets reach mutually agreeable ends without resentment (e.g. working as a butler in exchange of sleeping in the shed). Most of his actions are motivated by self-preservation, amusement and a hatred of the class divide between his compatriots and the overly coddled domestics; any other reason to be a jerk is not in his book.
- Jerkass: In his first appearance, he acts all rude and condescending to the pets.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Surly, upfront and a conniving food scrounger he may be, yet he still shows an affable, caring side especially to Tchotchke. He also joins the group in rescuing Honey in the season finale.
- Kissing Under the Influence: After commending Shel on his engagement, the two end up locked in a druggie make-out sesh.
- Odd Friendship: Of all the group members, he seems to genuenly like Tchotchke.
- Pet the Dog: When Tchotchke is put in the shed in The Stinger to "Who Done It?" and is freaked out, Raccoon claims him down, gives him a new umbrella, and puts on music for him.
- Secret-Keeper: He finds out that Honey has been secretly lusting over "Armando" the coyote in "Who Did This?" and promises to not tell the other animals in exchange for her letting him live in her shed.
- Sentimental Drunk: Normally sarcastic, Raccoon becomes a weeping love freak to the others when he licks toad juice.
- Unknown Rival: He doesn't mind the Gray One's hatred of him.
Small Fun Raccoon
- Voiced by: Maria Bamford
- Big Guy, Little Guy: With Raccoon.
- Those Two Guys: Occasionally with Raccoon.
Darla
- Voiced by: Maria Bamford
- The Ditz: The real reason Shel hadn't seen her in 15 years is because she got lost between three different yards. Based on the path laid out, she entered the correct yard several times over the years only to leave again.
- The Lost Lenore: Subverted. Everyone believes Darla abandoned Shel. Then, "Who's Getting Cold Feet?" revealed she just got lost in the neighbors' garden and is trying to get home.
- Official Couple: With Shel, after she reveals herself to be alive.
Lindsay
A croc with an eye jibbit that Shel almost married.
- Companion Cube: Despite being a shoe, Shel talks about her like she's another living animal.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Subverted. Shel believes she is this when he chooses Darla over her, but since she is still just a shoe, it is still all in his head.
The Gray One's Pack
The 40-60 other cats The Gray One lives with.
- Crazy Cat Lady: All of them are owned by one.
- Irrational Hatred: The Hates The Gray One One frequently attacks him despite having no reason to hate him. It's just what he does.
- Meaningful Name: The name they have usually refers to a noticeable physical or personality trait they have.
- Never Given a Name: Not that they minded it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered with the descriptive nicknames.
- The Pig-Pen: All of them (except The Clean One) are dirty and riddled with diseases due to living in a hoarder house.
- Serious Business: They take their mandatory musical numbers very seriously, including a zero tolerance policy on late rehearsals. Justified, since the musicals are the only thing keeping them all from killing each other.
- Theme Naming: They are all named "The _ One" (ex. The Scabby One, the Duet One, The Hates The Gray One One). When Tabitha moves in, she becomes "The Stuck-Up One".
Kit-Kat
- Voiced by: Michaela Dietz
- Ascended Extra: Initially had silent appearances in season 1, but gains larger speaking roles in season 2.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Part of her fur is dyed purple.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Averted. In season 1 she's a small kitten, while in season 2 she grows into a rebellious teenager.
- Replacement Goldfish: How Tabitha viewed her, since their owners recently got Kit-Kat while Tabitha was getting past her prime.
Other characters
Big Cookie
A former member of Honey's therapy group, having passed away before the start of the series. She was an Afghan hound and Honey's best friend.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Before dying, she was this with Honey.
- Posthumous Character: She died sometime before the start of the series, with Honey struggling to cope with her loss by finding a replacement member to fill in the gap she left.
Rutabaga and Juliet
- Voiced by: Dax Shepard (Rutabaga), Kristen Bell (Juliet)
- Childhood Friend Romance: First met as puppies at the same shelter, and have been together ever since.
- Happily Married: Are very much happy together.
- Love at First Sight: They fell in love with each other when they were puppies and were adopted as a bonded pair.
- Odd Name Out: ...Sort of, in Rutabaga's case, given that it would be much more expected for him to be named Romeo to go along with Juliet.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Their relationship is so perfect, it briefly made Honey doubt her relationship with Chief, which hurts his feelings.
Lil Bunny
- Voiced by: Anna Faris
- The Ditz: A nice dog but her train of thought doesn't get a lot of action upstairs. Her vapid talk quickly makes Honey disenchanted with her.
- The Nicknamer: She prefers them to real names, her one to Honey is "Honey-bear".
Amberconda
- Voiced by: Maria Bamford
- Infrared X-Ray Camera: An animal example; Amber with her reptilian vision can see and feel the infrared from Shel's shell.
- Ms. Fanservice: She is a beautiful and attractive female snake who works as a stripper. Amber speaks with a flirtatious and seductive voice, she is invited by Raccoon to do a lap dance for Shel during his bachelor party.
- Snakes Are Sexy: She is invited by the male animals who are throwing a bachelor party for Shel. Amber at one point sheds her skin and throws her shed skin into the crowd like discarded clothing.
Lenny
- Voiced by: Sarah Cooper
- Birds of a Feather: With Shel, due to similar chatterbox speech and having the same owner.
- Body Horror: By the time he's rescued from inside the snake's stomach, his left foot is gone, his fur is discolored green, the bones in his right knee and at the end of his tail are exposed, he needs someone to help him blink, and he's become so fragile that when his arms are raised up and moved around they break off.
- Eaten Alive: Gets swallowed by the snake living next to him. He remains inside it for almost a day until Nibbles gets him out.
- Motor Mouth: Much to Nibbles's annoyance.
- The Pollyanna: Even when he's eaten by a snake and comes out of it half-dead, he still manages to retain a positive attitude.
Nathan
- Voiced by: Nat Faxon
- Evil Brit: He speaks in a British accent and is very mean-spirited.
- Evil Is Petty: He instigated the murder mystery in order to fake his death and frame Honey for it in order to obtain freedom because once Nancy kicks the bucket, he would have to live with Honey, Chief and Jillnote and he would be forced to live in his cage.
- Evil Uncle: Although Honey refuses to call him her uncle.
- Feathered Fiend: A parrot and diabolical.
- For the Evulz: He tried to break apart Honey's group for kicks.
- Hate Sink: Truly the most detestable character on the show.
- Honorary Uncle: Referred to as "Uncle" Nathan, due to his owner Nancy preferring him as offspring over Jill.
- Instantly Defeathered Bird: Loses almost all his feathers in the chimney after Jill starts a fire.
- Insistent Terminology: Insists on calling himself Honey and Chief's uncle due to being owned by Jill's mother. Nancy herself insists Jill to call him her brother.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After trying to escape and frame Honey for his disappearance, Nathan hides in the chimney which Jill ignites, leaving him featherless.
- The Sociopath: He enjoys deriding others no matter the cost.
Nancy
- Voiced by: Cathy Moriarty (season 1); Kathleen Turner (season 2 onward)
- Abusive Parents: She treats Jill like dirt.
- All Take and No Give: Due to being her mother, Nancy expects Jill to always cater to her needs and whims all while berating her.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While she's more of a jerk than evil, she treats Nathan and Chief with kindness.
- Hate Sink: Much like Nathan, she is utterly loathesome.
- Jerkass: Contrasting Nathan's more insidious manipulation, she's just openly hostile to her daughter, especially when not getting what she wants.
- No Sympathy: In a flashback, when Nathan is bothering Jill, Nancy just orders Jill to allow Nathan to perch on her.
Jimmy Chonga
- Voiced by: James Snyder
- Childhood Friend Romance: Subverted. Elsa wants this to happen but Diablo's terrible wingman techniques nip the whole thing in the bud.
- He's All Grown Up: Described as a puppy whose left testicle "hadn't descended" when young, now a Hunk in dog terms.
- Real After All: Most dismiss him as Elsa's "imaginary" boyfriend. As it turns out, he exists even if he's not going out with her.
Little Cookie
- Voiced by: Nicole Sullivan
- Keet: Being a puppy, she has a lot of energy.
- Meaningful Name: The little cookie that comes after Big Cookie.
- Replacement Goldfish: She was given as a gift to the family that previously owned Big Cookie.
Ruby/Cherry
- Voiced by: Mary Holland
- Arc Villain: She's the main antagonist of "Who's Obsessed?: A Lifetime Original". After Faking the Dead and getting adopted by a family, she's set up to play a major role.
- Ax-Crazy: Not exactly good hiding her psychotic nature the longer her plans are foiled. Her Slasher Smile and deranged rants while attempting to kill Honey definitely slide her into this territory.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: She became a Serial Home Wrecker because as a twelve-week-old puppy, she was taken from her mother and siblings, and the people who took her in made her sleep in a cage and eat off the floor, making her have to beg for scraps of food. But as Honey points out, this is something a lot of dogs go through.
- False Friend: Ruby is introduced befriending Chief and, later, Elsa. Becoming smitten with Chief, she manipulates Elsa into giving her info to seduce him through imitation, only to later ditch and threaten her when she meddles in their meetings.
- Lack of Empathy: Ruby cares so little about the extremes she goes to get what she wants, even if it involves murder.
- Serial Homewrecker: As it turns out, she has a predilection for dogs with mates. Of course, once she sets her eyes on someone, she won't take no for an answer or else...
- The Sociopath: Bloodthirsty, maniac, superficially charming, incapable of accepting guilt, only sees her suffering while ignoring how her actions affect others, pathologically self-centered, willing to commit heinous crimes to get what she wants? Yep, she checks all the boxes.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While the series hasn't been devoid of hateful antagonists (Nathan, Nancy) or even annoyances (Raccoon), they have still shown some degrees of humor, sympathy or even deserved schadenfreude. Ruby/Cherry's actions, on the other hand, are rarely Played for Laughs, with her debut episode going the extra length in showing her as a deranged, psychopathic, dangerous lunatic whose cunning puts her within inches of killing Honey, all to get Chief for herself, with the possibility of killing him should he refuse.
Honey's Relatives
Honey's relatives, which are Mama, DJ, Tugboat, Oliver, and DJ
- Ambiguous Gender: Oliver. It's not really clear if Oliver is a female or male but we do know the voice skews towards feminine.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: DJ, which are very noticeable for a dog.
- Mistaken for Pregnant: Tugboat, who has a fatty tumor.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Mama, who says her memory is gone.
