Stick with musical animals (8)
I believe the answer is:
polecats
'animals' is the definition.
The answer is an example.
'stick with musical' is the wordplay.
'stick' becomes 'pole'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'musical' becomes 'Cats' (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical).
'pole'+'cats'='POLECATS'
(Other definitions for polecats that I've seen before include "Places to find American skunks" , "Brown, weasel-like mammals noted for their smell" , "carnivores" , "N American skunks" .)