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A whale that washed up last week around 40km north of Muriwai beach on Auckland's west coast will be left to rot, the Department of Conservation says.

Auckland's SPCA is gearing up to receive more than 1000 animals that will arrive over the busy Christmas/New Year season.

Hamilton Zoo have had an early Christmas present this year - four meerkats from Auckland Zoo.

Lifeguards have closed Mt Maunganui beach after a surfer's close encounter with a shark.

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.

A "cowardly" man left a woman bleeding from serious arm injuries after his dog attacked her in Kaiapoi near Christchurch this morning.

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.

Warm early summer seas around northern NZ are attracting increasing numbers of sharks.

In the end it wasn't very difficult at all. I simply went out to lunch, drank a few glasses of very good champagne and did it.

For years, families have dropped off chickens that no longer lay or are no longer loved at the State Highway 1 carpark. Now, cars are pulling up for another reason: to kidnap the wild chooks.