A woman has been banned from owning animals for ten years after a horse starved to death.

St John and SPCA run a therapy session at Northbridge Rest Home hospital wing.

A man who wired together the beaks of three chickens to "make them quiet" has been convicted in the North Shore District Court.

Feel like a cuteness overload? The SPCA is currently live streaming four fuzzy kittens as part of an adoption drive.

A new review calling for bold and urgent measures to control roaming cats - including compulsory microchipping - has been criticised as flawed.

At the end of this month four rescue dogs will graduate as fully trained explosive detector dogs after completing an intensive nine weeks of training.

Puppy farms and dog fighting were topics Labour's animal welfare spokesman Trevor Mallard sank his teeth into at the SPCA Otago in Dunedin yesterday.

Half the 7375 dogs impounded in Auckland were destroyed in 2013-14 after being unclaimed by their owners and deemed unsuitable for adoption.

A man whose dog attacked and killed a protected New Zealand fur seal pup on a West Auckland beach has been fined $1000 and will have his dog put down.

They're small, come in sets of four and are a proven success with the kids. Countdown is launching its new collection of Super Animals collectable sound cards today.

The death of a puppy found inside a suitcase in a Milton cemetery is being treated as suspicious, a SPCA Otago inspector says.

The owner of a dog who was shot with an arrow by a police officer says she is disappointed no criminal charges will be laid against him.

Andrew and Fleur the cats were rescued by the SPCA from a house overrun by animals.

Sadie was found in a paddock of horses.

Whitey the hen is especially fond of bananas. Last year Whitey joined Lompie the rooster, Panda the cat and Gustav the sheep at Bianca Hill's lifestyle block in Flat Bush, Manukau.

Misty the dog was 2 years old when she was picked up by the SPCA. For some reason, Misty, like countless other dogs, had not been wanted by her previous owner.

Smokey the goat was never a likely best friend for Madelaine Young's retriever poodle, Teddy.

An SPCA boss disgusted by how many dogs are starving in her patch will tomorrow begin a three-day hunger strike.

A Whangarei man who filmed himself nailing possums to trees and chopping off their limbs has topped the SPCA's annual list of animal abuse shame.

An Auckland man who crammed 38 dead cats into his freezer has been allowed to keep his three surviving felines but banned from acquiring any more.

The Department of Conservation says it is still searching for the owner of a dog that killed a baby fur seal on an Auckland Beach last week.

Dogs don't care about this election. Cats like to appear if as they know something but the truth is they don't, writes Mark Sainsbury.

An animal welfare organisation believes a dog fighting ring is behind a rise in the number of dogs going missing, but the SPCA doubts that's the case.

An egg producer who made hundreds of thousands of dollars from more than 206,000 dozen falsely labelled eggs has been sentenced to home detention.

John Banks is unlikely to be thrown in with other convicts to cut scrub or clean beaches during his sentence.

Two brothers who starved horses so badly they had to be shot by animal welfare officers have been jailed and banned from owning horses for five years.

There was a purrfect ending yesterday for a wayward cat stuck up a palm tree in a suburban garden for 10 days and nights.