A gnoll I'm playing in a pathfinder game. The gnolls in the setting are more aboriginal then traditional D&D gnolls due to various whatevers. So I made her kind of a coastal-Salish gnoll. So she has tiny salish wool-dogs as animal companions. (Sallish wool-dogs are a native American dog that is now extinct, they were small terrier-sized dogs that the Salish raised for their extremely fine wool. Some surviving examples of wool-dog blankets are some of the softest ever known.)

...They're tiny, fleece covered puppies.

She has the most bad-ass animal companions ever. She's also heavily invested in basket-weaving and fishing as skills.