Animal Bingo Printable: Pets, Dogs, Farm, Zoo and Garden: how it works
This animal bingo printable starts from 120 animals in five sets of 24: pets, dog breeds, farm, zoo and garden. Press New set of 4 cards for four different cards, then print them or share the link to play on phones. Squares are words only, and nearly every animal has a checked fact in the list below.
Deal, print or save a PDF
The starting list mixes all five sets, so one card can put Beagle beside Barn owl and Flamingo. Set How many cards to one per player, up to 60, and the print button follows your count. For an animal bingo printable PDF, choose Save as PDF in the print window. Call the game draws each animal once and keeps the called list on screen.
Dog, farm or pet bingo from one set
To play one set, copy it from the list below, press Empty the list, paste it into Word list, one per line and deal again. The 24 breeds make a dog bingo printable, the farm set a farm bingo printable. One set fills a 5 × 5 card exactly, so every card would hold the same 24 words: pick the 4 × 4 grid and each card takes 16. Pets plus dog breeds is 48 squares, enough for a pet bingo printable at full size.
Tips
Turn each call into a quiz: read the animal's line from the list below as a question. What is a group of flamingos called? A flamboyance.
Breed names run long. On a phone the 4 × 4 grid gives Pembroke Welsh Corgi more room, and on paper every name prints whole.
Add your own before you deal: the family dog's name, the class hamster, the heron at the pond.
Questions and answers
How do you win animal bingo?
The common rule is five in a row: across, down or corner to corner, with the free square counting for everyone. Four corners and blackout, every square on the card, make good later games. House rules differ, so agree on the patterns first.
Are the dog breed names official?
They follow the American Kennel Club's spelling, checked on its breed list on September 18, 2026, which is why the card says German Shepherd Dog and Saint Bernard. Each breed's line gives its AKC group, and the 24 cover all seven. The club lists far more breeds, so type yours in.
Where do group names like a tower of giraffes come from?
From Wikipedia's list of animal names, checked on September 18, 2026. Many of these collective nouns are old or playful: a crash of rhinos, a business of ferrets, a loveliness of ladybugs. Few people use them outside a quiz, so they make good caller questions.
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Bearded dragonAn Australian lizard. The beard is the underside of its throat, which can puff out and turn black.
Betta fishAlso called the Siamese fighting fish. It comes from mainland Southeast Asia.
CanaryBred from the wild Atlantic canary, a bird named after the Canary Islands.
CatA group of cats is a clowder.
ChinchillaA rodent from the Andes with the densest fur of any living land mammal.
CockatielThe smallest member of the cockatoo family, from Australia.
FerretMost likely a tamed form of the European polecat. A group of ferrets is a business.
GerbilThe pet kind is the Mongolian gerbil, which lives wild in the grassland and desert of Mongolia, China and Russia.
GoldfishA member of the carp family, first bred for color in China more than 1,000 years ago.
Guinea pigA rodent first tamed in the Andes. It is not from Guinea and it is not a pig.
GuppyA livebearer from northeast South America: it gives birth to live young.
HamsterA rodent that carries food home in cheek pouches that reach back to its shoulders.
HedgehogThe young is a hoglet. A group is an array.
Hermit crabIt lives in an empty sea snail shell and needs a larger one as it grows.
KittenA young cat. A young rabbit can be called a kitten too.
Leopard geckoA ground gecko from dry, rocky country in Afghanistan, Pakistan and nearby. Unlike most geckos it has eyelids that move.
LovebirdA small parrot. The wild species all come from Africa, one of them from Madagascar.
MouseThe young is a pup. A group is a colony or a nest.
ParakeetThe common pet parakeet is the budgerigar, or budgie, a bird from Australia.
ParrotA strong curved beak, two toes pointing forward and two back. Many parrots can copy human speech.
PuppyA young dog. A group of dogs is a pack.
RabbitThe female is a doe, the male a buck and the young a kit.
TortoiseA turtle that lives on land. In American usage the word covers land turtles only.
TurtleThe young is a hatchling. A group of turtles is a bale.
Dog breeds 24
Airedale TerrierAKC Terrier Group.
Basset HoundAKC Hound Group.
BeagleAKC Hound Group.
Border CollieAKC Herding Group.
BoxerAKC Working Group.
BulldogAKC Non-Sporting Group.
ChihuahuaAKC Toy Group.
Cocker SpanielAKC Sporting Group.
DachshundAKC Hound Group.
DalmatianAKC Non-Sporting Group.
German Shepherd DogAKC Herding Group. The club's name for the breed ends in Dog.
Golden RetrieverAKC Sporting Group.
Great DaneAKC Working Group.
GreyhoundAKC Hound Group.
Irish SetterAKC Sporting Group.
Labrador RetrieverAKC Sporting Group.
Pembroke Welsh CorgiAKC Herding Group.
PomeranianAKC Toy Group.
PoodleAKC Non-Sporting Group for the Standard and Miniature. The Toy Poodle sits in the Toy Group.
PugAKC Toy Group.
Saint BernardAKC Working Group. The group sheet shortens the name to St. Bernard.
Scottish TerrierAKC Terrier Group.
Shih TzuAKC Toy Group.
Siberian HuskyAKC Working Group.
Farm animals 24
AlpacaThe young is a cria.
Barn catA cat that lives around the farm buildings and keeps down mice and rats.
Barn owlA heart-shaped face, a night hunter of small mammals. It does not hoot: it screeches.
BullA male of cattle.
ChickenThe young is a chick and the female a hen. A group is a flock or a brood.
CowA female of cattle. The young is a calf and the group is a herd.
DonkeyThe female is a jenny, the male a jack and the young a foal.
DuckThe young is a duckling and the male a drake. On water a group is a raft or a paddling.
GoatThe young is a kid, the female a nanny and the male a billy.
GooseThe young is a gosling and the male a gander. A gaggle on land, a skein in flight.
Guinea fowlThe young is a keet.
HorseA foal is a colt if male and a filly if female. The mother is a mare.
LlamaThe young is a cria, the same word as for an alpaca.
MuleThe offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
OxA word for male cattle, along with bull and steer.
PigThe young is a piglet. A group is a drove, or a sounder for older pigs.
PonyA small horse. In competition the usual line is 14.2 hands, or 58 inches, at the withers.
QuailA group of quail is a bevy.
RamA male sheep.
RoosterA male chicken.
SheepThe young is a lamb, the female a ewe and the group a flock.
TurkeyThe young is a poult and the male a tom. A group is a rafter.
Water buffaloA large bovine from South and Southeast Asia, suited to tilling rice fields.
YakLong-haired cattle of the Himalayan region and the Tibetan Plateau.
Zoo animals 24
CamelThe hump stores fat, not water. A dromedary has one hump and a Bactrian camel has two.
ChimpanzeeA great ape of equatorial Africa that makes tools from sticks, rocks, grass and leaves.
CrocodileThe young is a hatchling. A group is a bask or a float.
ElephantThe young is a calf. A group is a herd, a parade or a memory.
FlamingoA group of flamingos is a flamboyance.
Giant pandaA bear found only in China. About 99 percent of what it eats is bamboo.
GiraffeA group of giraffes is a tower.
GorillaThe young is an infant. A group is a band or a troop.
HippoShort for hippopotamus. A group is a bloat or a pod.
KangarooThe young is a joey. A group is a mob or a troop.
KoalaA marsupial from Australia, not a bear. It sleeps up to twenty hours a day.
LionThe young is a cub and the group is a pride.
MeerkatA young meerkat can be called a meerkitten.
OrangutanA great ape of Indonesia and Malaysia. The name comes from Malay words for person and forest.
OstrichThe tallest and heaviest living bird. It cannot fly, and it lays the largest eggs of any living bird.
OtterThe young is a pup and a group is a romp.
PeacockThe male peafowl. The female is a peahen, the young a peachick and the group an ostentation.
PenguinA group is a colony: a waddle on land and a raft in the water.
Polar bearThe young is a cub.
Red pandaNot a close relative of the giant panda. It lives in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
RhinocerosA group of rhinos is a crash.
Sea lionIt has ear flaps on the outside and can walk on all fours.
TigerThe young is a cub. A group is a streak or an ambush.
ZebraThe young is a foal. A group is a dazzle or a zeal.
Garden animals 24
AntThe young is a larva. A group is a colony or an army.
Blue jayA group of jays is a band, a party or a scold.
Bumblebee
ButterflyThe young is a caterpillar. A group is a kaleidoscope or a flutter.
CardinalA group of cardinals is a college, a conclave or a radiance.
ChipmunkA small striped squirrel that carries food to its burrow in cheek pouches.
CricketMost males chirp by scraping parts of their front wings together, mainly at night.
CrowA group of crows is a murder.
DragonflyIt starts life underwater as a nymph. The adult has two pairs of wings and eats mosquitoes and other insects.
EarthwormIt has no eyes and it breathes through its moist skin.
FireflyA beetle, also called a lightning bug, that lights up mainly at twilight to attract a mate.
FrogThe young is a tadpole, then a froglet. A group is an army.
GrasshopperThe young is a nymph. A group is a cloud or a swarm.
HoneybeeThe young of a bee is a larva. A group is a colony, a swarm or a hive.
HummingbirdNamed for the hum of its wings. It can hover and fly in any direction, and it lives only in the Americas.
LadybugA small beetle, not a true bug. A group is a loveliness.
MoleThe young is a pup. A group of moles is a labor.
MothThe young is a caterpillar. A group of moths is an eclipse.
RobinThe American robin is a thrush, named after the European robin for its reddish-orange breast. The two are not close relatives.
SlugA land mollusc like a snail, with no shell to see. The upper pair of feelers senses light and the lower pair smells.
SnailA group of snails is a rout, a walk or an escargatoire.
SpiderThe young is a spiderling. A group is a cluster or a clutter.
SquirrelThe young is a kit. A group is a scurry.
ToadThe young is a tadpole, then a toadlet. A group is a knot.
How this list was compiled: Written for this page by the Game Night Generator editors: 120 animals in five sets of 24 (pets, dog breeds, farm, zoo, garden), so that any one set fills a card on its own. Words only, every square 30 characters or fewer, and the garden set names animals of North American yards. Dog breed names and their groups follow the American Kennel Club's breed list (https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/) and its sheet AKC Breeds Broken Out By Group, revised March 10, 2026 (https://www.akc.org/akc-breeds-by-group/), both checked on September 18, 2026. The words for young, males, females and groups come from Wikipedia's List of animal names (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names), checked the same day; many of those group words are old or playful and are rarely used outside a quiz. Every other fact line was checked on September 18, 2026 against the Wikipedia article for that animal, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ostrich and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinellidae. An animal with no line had no fact we could confirm in one sentence. Win rules on the page follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo_(American_version), checked on September 18, 2026. Licence: own work