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'Sick, twisted' person left kitten hanging from tree
A Rotorua woman had to put down her 2-month-old kitten after finding it injured in an apparent hanging outside her home.
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Abandoned victims of Christmas
Auckland's SPCA is gearing up to receive more than 1000 animals that will arrive over the busy Christmas/New Year season.
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Dog pulls drowned puppies from estuary
A mother dog howled all night after she fished her six dead puppies out of an estuary after they had been dumped in a shopping bag.
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Abused puppy finding joy in new home
The family who adopted Trooper - the puppy that was rescued after being found outside the Gate Pa shops, in Tauranga, with its ears chopped off - say he is settling in to his new home very well.
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Abused puppy gets a new, loving home
The pit bull puppy found in a Tauranga shopping area with his ears chopped off will head to a loving new home today.
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DOC find seal killers tough to catch
Calls from the public about a mass seal slaughter near Kaikoura are drying up, while the killers remain at large.
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100 protected gulls shot dead
The Department of Conservation has condemned the massacre of more than 100 rare gulls found dead in Southland.
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Concern over serial animal abuser
Tauranga residents are concerned they are dealing with a serial animal abuser after a kitten was violently thrown against a door and killed this morning - the third horrific act of animal cruelty in the city in a month.
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Vicious attack prompts debate on seal culling
The slaughter of 23 seals on the Kaikoura coast last week has prompted debate on whether seals need to be culled in the area.
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Arsonist sets fire to dog in pen
A 3-year-old dog has been burned to death by an arsonist who doused its pen with petrol and set it alight.
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Zoo's oldest resident treated for asthma
Janie, one of the world's oldest chimps in captivity, may soon be sniffing through a modified inhaler to treat her worsening asthma.