Kiwis for Kiwi is running training sessions nationwide to condition hunting dogs against attacking our threatened national bird.

Why is choosing what to feed your pet harder than choosing what to feed yourself?

Staff at Auckland Zoo and Kelly Tarlton's are hoping a trio of critically ill turtles they are treating make a full recovery.

Steamy extra-marital liaisons with the big-shot bloke next door. A love child or two. No it's not Fifty Shades of Grey, it's the secret life of the tui.

When a farmer sued a hot air balloon firm for causing a pig stampede, he needed trigonometry, a lucky photograph and a laser rangefinder to prove he wasn't telling porkies.

New homes being built on the Otago Peninsula could soon come with a strict new planning rule - no cats. But what would a cat ban involve?

Sally Hibbard spoke to a leading dog trainer and behavior expert who made it very clear that there is no definitive way to stop an attack, but offers these tips.

Last year Craig Bullock brought us a book hailing the canine heroes and victims of Christchurch’s earthquakes. Now it’s the turn of the felines.

Trout taken from catchments where 1080 poison has been dumped are safe to eat, the Ministry of Primary Industries says.

A Hamilton man says he's no hero but is grateful for the recognition he has received after he saved a woman being mauled by her dog.

The National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) says its pleased to see a drop in the number of animals used for testing and research.

A Hamilton woman who was mauled by her own dog is praising the bravery of a passing stranger who she says saved her life.

The father of a woman mauled to death by a pair of notoriously aggressive rottweilers told a court he has been "deeply wounded and changed forever".

Photos from the 60th Eukanuba National Dog Show

New research, which measures the positive and negative emotional states in dogs, shows that man’s best friend can now be defined as a ‘pessimist’ or as an ‘optimist’.

If spending hot summer days in a fur coat doesn't appeal, then spare a thought for the cats, dogs and other furry creatures that don't have any option as temperatures rise.

A golden retriever has been rescued after being trapped down a hole on the West Coast for five days.

The amazing story of a cat that travelled more than 200 kilometres and turned up at the Gisborne SPCA after going missing four years earlier has come to a very happy ending.

Images are extracted from Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su, RRP $19.99, available 30 September where all good books are sold.

Graphic content warning: A 22-year old man has admitted to animal cruelty charges in the Greymouth District Court.

A foal is turning heads not because of its lineage but for its rare white colour.

An inquiry is underway how it took zoo staff more than 15 minutes to reach the scene of an incident where a young man was killed by a white tiger.

Live slow, die old and leave a controversial corpse. That could have been a suitable motto for Lonesome George, the celebrated, centenarian giant tortoise who died in the Galapagos Islands.

The Department of Conservation and other pest management bodies will have an extra tool to battle rats, stoats and possums with Ohiti - a new trap sensor system.