A University of Otago student came to the rescue of a Jack Russell left in a hot car.

SPCA and Uber are teaming up to deliver kittens across New Zealand.

Police responding to calls of a domestic violence incident arrive to find an unexpected victim - a spider.

Shira, who was born at the zoo in 2013, is being transferred to Christchurch's Orana Wildlife Park

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Cats abandoned in cardboard box were moments from being put in waste crusher.

About 70 people are protesting outside the Environment Court in Auckland this morning against a new chicken farm proposed for Patumahoe, near Pukekohe.

Timaru has a tall order coming its way - as Auckland Zoo's two-year-old giraffe Shira begins a three-day sea voyage south this morning.

Cat pictures are funny and harmless - but there's a sinister undercurrent and a serious point to be made.

Grant Bradley goes on a late summer training ride with huskies high above the Arctic Circle.

Cat owners in Germany may soon have to keep their pets on a leash, under new government proposals.

A common pesticide could hinder bumblebees' ability to pollinate plants, says a new study - and that could be a big problem for both agriculture and the natural ecosystems that depend on the bees for....

Michelle Olbricht assumed her cats Ash and Ellie were home bodies, with little appetite for exploring the world but boy was she wrong.

The death of police dog Diesel in the Paris raids has inspired hundreds of tributes from pets around the world - with a little help from their owners.

Jimbo's try their hand at producing a TV advertisement with 18 dogs and six cats. Watch the cute and cuddly video here.

One of New Zealand's rarest penguin has left Wellington Zoo and returned to her hometown in the West Coast after receiving treatment for an infected wound.

Trying to identify which deerstalkers fired the fatal shots and dragging them off for a show trial is hardly the point, writes Brian Rudman. DoC was entrusted with the safety of the critically endangered birds, and it was DoC who invited the shooters in.

Tui are renowned for their repertoire of songs yet we're only just beginning to find out how urban environments are influencing their singing.

Conservationists were left to hedge their bets when it came to saving a critical population of one of New Zealand's most endangered bird species.

Forest and Bird are warning a "pest plague" is on the cards next winter and spring.

A major 1080 poison offensive succeeded in wiping out 95 per cent of rats and 85 per cent of stoats in targeted forests around the country.

A 33-year-old chimpanzee at Wellington Zoo has had surgery to prevent her from putting sticks and pieces of straw into her ear.

Research suggests our cheeky kea may not be such a bird-brain after all.

A orang-utan and her youngster were found distressed and clinging to one another in Borneo as locals hurled rocks at them and tried to tie them up.

Are you prepared if you find a beagle bleeding, Chihuahua choking or a pug with no pulse? Otago Polytechnic's School of Veterinary Nursing in Dunedin is offering people free courses to learn first aid for dogs. Source: ODT/YouTube

Three of Auckland Zoo's orang-utans are being moved to new American homes to help with the international breeding programme for the endangered great ape.

The saga of a series of "Monkey Selfies" snapped four years ago in the Indonesian wilderness seems to never end.

A tiny cat has been rescued and his survival documented on Facebook.

More than 2500 charges have been laid against dog owners in the past five years - though a pet safety expert believes many more cases never go to court.

Any dolphin or whale stranding experienced live is deeply moving; particularly when you end up accompanying an individual to the end of its life.