It's no longer enough for an Auckland house deposit, but at more than $20,000 the cost of these two cats is still a sum to wince over.

John Lennon sang about it, and now Auckland Council are living it. Life, happening, while you're busy making other plans. The life - four tiny black swan fluffballs - have upset plans to install a sculpture in a suburban Auckland park. But they might be the cutest project delay in the city this year.

Auckland Council planned to install a sculpture in a suburban park, but mother nature had other ideas.

A record breeding season for New Zealand and the world's population of lovable but critically endangered kakapo has seen their numbers shoot up by an amazing 28 per cent to 157 individuals.

Hand-reared kakapo chicks put in outdoor pens for a month to wean them. Here's Wendy2 being "begged" after feeding. Source: Dr Andrew Digby, DOC

Rob Kugler is documenting his and Bella's adventures on his website and on Instagram.

Located in downtown Bangkok, Neverland cafe hosts a wide pen area where visitors can play with 29 dogs during the cafe's service hours.

Tourists visiting Thailand are urged not to take selfies with slow loris animals after one was found with his teeth ripped out.

What do you do when you have an intruder in your home that won't budge?

A wildlife photographer has captured the dramatic moment a pride of lions bolted up a tree after they were spooked by a herd of elephants.

Academics fear for New Zealand's falling sea lion population after discovering a breed of sea lion was "rapidly" driven to extinction after human contact on the Chatham Islands in the 17th century.

New research into the complex links of the food chain suggest that the lovable mammals play a key role in managing carbon dioxide levels.

Source: Facebook/NRL A black cat appeared on the pitch during an NRL game between the Panthers and the Sharks.

Auckland sailor Paul Thompson can't always hear everything around him. That's where his cat comes in.

Everybody likes to rug up in winter - for some of us, the colder months make it much harder to leave the house and stay active. This

WATCH: America's favourite big-city big cats have welcomed five kittens to their crew.

A litter of 11 young puppies has been found soaking wet and cold on a pathway after being dumped in Porirua.

An exhibition in the Japanese capital is reinventing traditional aquariums of the Edo period

Hamilton Zoo has welcomed a male white rhino calf following his mother's 16-month pregnancy.

A male southern white rhinoceros calf has been born at Hamilton Zoo. Arriving in late June after his mother's 16-month pregnancy, the calf brings the total number of white rhinos at Hamilton Zoo to six. The male calf joins his mother Kito, father Kruger, and females Imani, Moesha and her daughter Jamila.

Source: Facebook/Rojas Montecinos Evy While walking through Naples, Italy, a girl came across a snake that was attacking a mother rat and her baby, but in an act of love, the mother rat vehemently attacked back at the snake until it retreated away.

Rat takes on snake - and wins.

A puppy found abandoned in a rubbish bin in central Auckland has been put down today.

He was missing for 15 days, but he was determined to find his way home.

A pair of proud parents at the Australian Reptile Park, on the NSW central coast, have welcomed the arrival of five fuzzy and very cute dingo pups.

The appeal of small dogs needs little explanation: they make less mess, they're (mostly) easier to clean up after and, of course

They may fight like cat and dog, but adventurous pets Luigi and Bandito share a love of the great outdoors.

Dogs can cause sepsis in humans just by licking them, doctors have warned after an elderly British woman became critically ill.

A Huntly woman has been banned from owning animals for five years after a small wound on her cat's back grew to the "size of a palm" because she didn't take it to the vet for months.

When a notoriously irritable reptile with a mouthful of jagged teeth and a vicious underbite needs medical care, caution is definitely in order.