A targeted programme to capture and neuter stray cats before releasing them would reduce the population humanely and effectively, a visiting American animal law expert says.

Two dairy farmers, a stock agent and a trucking company have been prosecuted for putting 25 cows through a hellish trip to the slaughterhouse.

The search is on for the people who shaved a family cat in Christchurch and marked a swastika on its back.

Conservation groups say a new government proposal to help the world's rarest marine dolphin, Maui's dolphin, is inadequate and will not save the species from extinction.

A change of heart by Parliament on testing recreational drugs on animals has been hailed as a "great day for beagle puppies".

I've always classified those horse-drawn carriages in Central Park alongside Venice's gondolas.

A dog owner who starved a puppy to death today "narrowly" escaped jail, but has been banned form owning animals for four years.

Three young people could be heard urging a terrified man to come outside and talk to them before they smashed their way into his home and killed a 12-week-old puppy.

Fat cat Hazel is a pet with a plan. And she needs an owner willing to help her stick to it.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, a war is being waged. Soldiers with M16 assault rifles patrol the grasslands and forests and surveillance drones buzz overhead.

Four days after a pet dog disappeared, its skinned and mutilated body was dumped on a family's South Auckland lawn.

About 60 "flat cats" came a step closer to domestic bliss at a clinic in Dunedin for the cats of tertiary students.

A woman out for her morning walk was left with deep bites on her forearm and thighs after being rushed by a dog which dragged her to the ground.