Thread: Comparing Strings?

If I have a some pre-defined string names array such as

char *pet_names[] = {
"Dog",
"Cat"
};

and I want to prompt the user to enter an Animal name such as

printf("Enter a type of Animal ");
gets(Animal)

I want to be able to compare the inputed animal name to the above predefined names and set that to an integer value. Say if the user enters in Dog. I want to set Animal to 0, if the user enters in Cat, I want to set Animal to 1 and so on. How would I code this?? Any help would be appreciated.