Hastings pound manager John Payne, with one of the adoptable dogs at their new pound facility.
A dairy owner in Rotorua is undeterred despite dangerous attacks and pound puppies get a new leash on life - just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.
This Rotorua dairy owner has been threatened, held up with a golf club and attacked with a table leg
- but he's not going anywhere.
These Hastings pound puppies are about to get a pampering - and a new leash on life.
Another kiwi has been killed by a dog as the national bird's grim winter in the Bay of Islands continues.
A Bay of Plenty great-grandfather who lost everything in a fire is still thankful for the important things.
