Answer:
What has a brown coat, a long tail, and lives in house or shed but most active while you're in bed?
What has a coat? Hugs you not in sympathy? Whose smile you'd rather not see? Whose stance is a terrible thing to see? Who is it that brave men run away from? Whose fingers are clawed? Whose sleep lasts for months? And who's company we shunt?
What peels like an onion but still remains whole?
What has armor but is not a knight, snaps but is not a twig, and is always at home even on the move?
I have a very long tongue and eat ants. I have scales all over my body and can roll into a ball. What am I?
A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn't get wet. How does he do that?