A Rotorua woman had to put down her 2-month-old kitten after finding it injured in an apparent hanging outside her home.

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.

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.

The pit bull puppy found in a Tauranga shopping area with his ears chopped off will head to a loving new home today.

Calls from the public about a mass seal slaughter near Kaikoura are drying up, while the killers remain at large.

The Department of Conservation has condemned the massacre of more than 100 rare gulls found dead in Southland.

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.