Thinking about getting a new family pet? Auckland SPCA is offering 50 dogs and puppies for adoption at half their normal price for the next two weeks.

The Waikato Expressway team has adopted a wayward kitten found at its Huntly project office.

It's no longer enough for an Auckland house deposit, but the cost of Marius and Lizel Koekemoer's two cats is still a sum to wince over. The Auckland couple spent more than $20,000 importing a breeding pair of pixiebob cats into New Zealand, and now the female is expecting her first litter.

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.

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

A group of Buddhist monks from Canada have saved the lives of a large number of lobsters, buying them from various vendors and returning them to the ocean.

This hapless man learnt the hard way when he attempted to hand out snacks to local primates.

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

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

A Florida man has spotted what he believes to be an alligator in a tree.

Courtesy: WINK News.

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.