Canterbury SPCA welfare investigators are run off their feet trying to catch up after a record month for complaints in December.

Found wandering the streets as a chick, this hen is ready to be given a loving home.

Missy is a 2-year-old female staffie/boxer mixed breed dog that needs some company.

This male Muscovy duck was brought in as a stray.

Abandoned on the streets with a collar embedded in her neck, Zahara has recovered and is ready for a loving home.

Melissa and Charlie come as a pair, having lived together with a previous owner, and would like to be adopted.

These domestic shorthair tabby kittens are playful and loveable. They get along well so would love to be adopted together.

The Auckland SPCA has halved the cost of adopting cats and kittens over the Xmas period, saying it is at "crisis point" with too many feline arrivals.

A teen accused of firing a crossbow bolt through the head of a cat may be granted diversion.

A teen accused of firing a crossbow bolt through the head of a cat has been granted name suppression in a brief court appearance.

The SPCA is reviewing its procedures around dogs after a volunteer was mauled by a "family" dog that had shown no hint of aggression until it attacked.

'Clearly this is not rocket science.' The SPCA is shocked by an Otara woman's cruelty in neglecting to change her dog's collar, causing it a serious neck wound.

Black swans run over by a boat, a pet sheep bashed and set on fire, and fowl found stuffed in a chest of drawers have topped the SPCA's 2013 List of Shame.

Driving dog Monty is heading for the big screen.

The owner of a cat shot through the head with a crossbow says she will talk to an 18-year-old who handed himself into police before she decides whether to push for charges to be laid.

The canine heroes and victims of Christchurch’s earthquakes are immortalised in a new book by Laura Sessions and Craig Bullock.

Two Dunedin youths have been arrested in relation to the theft and mutilation of a pet lamb in the city last month.