# Little Fuzzy — Character guide

> Key figures in Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper.

- [Little Fuzzy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/little_fuzzy.md): Little Fuzzy arrives at Jack Holloway's camp hungry, curious, and already carrying a stolen chisel he has reshaped into an all-purpose tool. He learns quickly — cups, wastebaskets, the word for both — and his obvious cle
- [Jack Holloway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/jack_holloway.md): Jack Holloway lives alone on Zarathustra by choice, careful with equipment and suspicious of company, until a Fuzzy wanders in and starts rearranging his kitchen. He feeds it, names himself Pappy Jack, and begins teachin
- [Ben Rainsford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/ben_rainsford.md): Ben Rainsford is the scientist Jack trusts to look at a Fuzzy and say something honest, which makes him the natural bridge between a prospector's camp and the colonial authorities. He brings his own Fuzzies to the trial,
- [George Lunt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/george_lunt.md): Lieutenant George Lunt enforces the Company's writ on Zarathustra, which puts him on the wrong side of Jack Holloway when the Fuzzies are seized as evidence. He lets the deputies take the bedding and toys anyway, and his
- [Gus Brannhard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/gus_brannhard.md): Gus Brannhard arrives at the Holloway camp already spoiling for a fight, and when the Fuzzies are taken he is the one who spots the blank-signature trick behind the court order. He is talkative, theatrical, and constitut
- [Ruth Ortheris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/ruth_ortheris.md): Ruth Ortheris is one of the experts whose assessment will decide whether Fuzzies count as sapient under colonial law, which makes her both useful and dangerous to Jack's side. She meets the family in their own space — Ma
- [Ernst Mallin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/ernst_mallin.md): Mallin is the scientific authority Victor Grego and Leonard Kellogg intend to deploy against Rainsford's claims, trusted precisely because he cannot be fooled by amateurs. His role places him at the hinge of the novel's 
- [Gerd van Riebeek](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/gerd_van_riebeek.md): Van Riebeek sits easily among the Fuzzies, pummeling Little Fuzzy on his lap while reeling off the taxonomic shock of a tailless mammal with no relatives on the planet. His scientific eye and easy warmth make him both wi
- [Juan Jimenez](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/juan_jimenez.md): A colleague of Leonard Kellogg involved in the Fuzzy controversy.
- [Baby Fuzzy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/baby_fuzzy.md): One of Little Fuzzy's offspring, born during the story.
- [Max Fane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/max_fane.md): Fane embodies the legal machinery of a company-run world, the man who must decide what counts as a crime and whose claims are enforceable. His authority sits awkwardly against the Chartered Zarathustra Company's interest
- [Victor Grego](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/victor_grego.md): Grego commands the Company that effectively owns Zarathustra, and he understands immediately that a sapient native species would unravel its charter and its profits. He is not a cartoon villain but a calculating executiv
- [Leslie Coombes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/leslie_coombes.md): A company representative involved in the Fuzzy hearings.
- [Kurt Borch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/kurt_borch.md): A hunter and guide who assists the expedition.
- [Nick Emmert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/nick_emmert.md): The Resident General of Zarathustra.
- [Leonard Kellogg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/leonard_kellogg.md): Kellogg is the Company's man on the ground, sent to take the Fuzzies out of Holloway's hands and produce a report declaring them highly intelligent animals. He convinces himself that Rainsford is a liar and that the Comp
- [Goldilocks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/goldilocks.md): A female Fuzzy found dead, central to the legal case.
- [Judge Pendarvis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/little_fuzzy_se/characters/judge_pendarvis.md): The judge presiding over the Fuzzy sapience hearing.

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