In “Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I,” Fufu is an old pony that the French take to draw stretchers during World War I. A family with young children used to own her, and they wrote letters to the French army begging to keep their pony. Fufu seems to miss her owners at the front. When she’s not working, she spends her time looking for eggs that soldiers hide for her and lies down whenever she hears a shell coming.
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Fufu Character Timeline in Only the Animals
The timeline below shows where the character Fufu appears in Only the Animals. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Pigeons, a Pony, the Tomcat and I: Soul of Cat (Died 1915, France)
...until the advance is over, so they’ve hidden an egg from an old pony named Fufu. Fufu pulls stretchers when she’s working, but right now Kiki watches her search for her...
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Fufu asks if Colette put Kiki onto the streets like the tomcat’s owner did. The tom...
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...to wake up. When the soldiers receive boiled eggs for breakfast, Kiki thinks of how Fufu must’ve felt to watch the kitchen hands boil so many eggs, and how Colette used...
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