Good news for dog owners everywhere – your canine friend does recognise your face, according to new research.

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 former Kennel Club judge and his wife, who were banned from caring for animals for 20 years, have had their application for appeal dismissed.

Online retailer ASOS has joined a host of upmarket shops in banning angora products over a viral video exposing the cruelty that rabbits suffer.

'It's not the sort of thing you'd want to come across when you're getting the paper from the mailbox.' A fur seal surprised Dunedin residents yesterday.

Fisherman airlifted to hospital after fish's barb just misses an artery in his leg.

The owner of a dog which chased a sea lion from the sand dunes on an Otago Peninsula beach to the sea has been granted diversion.

When Hank the bulldog catches sight of his skateboard, there's no stopping him - that is, until the skateboard has to be confiscated.

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

Funded by prominent Silicon Valley investors and Bill Gates, Hampton Creek Foods seeks to disrupt a global egg industry that backers say wastes energy, pollutes the environment, causes disease outbreaks and confines chickens to tiny spaces.

Roosters desperately need somewhere to roost around the fringes of New Zealand's largest city.

When Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete launched Operation Tokomeza ("terminate" in Swahili), with its shoot-to-kill orders to deal with elephant poachers, he wasn't mincing his words.

The familiar black dog with the white chest and white front paws starred in past Christmases in US President Barack Obama's White House, but the first pooch had to let someone else in the picture this holiday season: his little sister, Sunny.

Campaigners convinced NZ's set-net fishing restrictions are a death sentence for the Maui's dolphin have laid cardboard coffins and fishing nets full of plastic junk outside Parliament.

Two West Coast men have denied starving 150 cows and 30 calves to the point where they have to be euthanised.

A 'funeral procession' for New Zealand's endangered Maui's dolphin species is currently winding though Wellington's inner city streets.

Dogs which provide vital assistance to people with disabilities will be fitted with identification tags so they can easily be reunited with their owners in emergencies.

Orca swimming in Pukerua Bay are causing traffic chaos as drivers pull over to watch.

A brazen bird snatched a video camera that was recording crocodiles in northwest Australia and captured fascinating footage of its 110-kilometre journey.

The most popular giant panda in US-China relations finally was given an identity as the Smithsonian's National Zoo named its female 100-day-old cub Bao Bao after receiving more than 123,000 votes online from the public.

If you are ever irritated by the sound of your spouse crinkling a packet of chips or rustling a newspaper, then spare a thought for your cat.

Father reveals Zac Young's last words at memorial service while beaches in NSW stay shut as shark is hunted.

Gourmet-isation of pet food is on the rise. Owners of pets, like parents of babies, are made to feel guilty if they don't buy the right foods.