It's true that if we restrict the thing to mammals then there are not many examples. Though Keats has a jolly good sonnet to a cat and I think both Hardy and Matthew Arnold address dogs. Hilaire Belloc has four lines to a rhinoceros.
Rhinoceros, your hide looks all undone.
You do not take my fancy in the least.
You have a horn where other brutes have none.
Rhinoceros, you are an ugly beast.
But including birds really opens the thing up. Shelley talks to a skylark and Wallace Stevens to a chicken. And John Skelton at great length to a parrot.
I will check the exact wording and report back.
PS And W.S. Gilbert to a little tom-tit.
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