Abandoned on the streets with a collar embedded in her neck, Zahara has recovered and is ready for a loving home.

Melissa and Charlie come as a pair, having lived together with a previous owner, and would like to be adopted.

Indy was given to the SPCA after her previous owners moved from a country property to a small central home where there was not enough room for her to play.

Nina is a 1-year-old cat that prefers living in a quiet atmosphere as she becomes overwhelmed by loud noises.

These domestic shorthair tabby kittens are playful and loveable. They get along well so would love to be adopted together.

The Auckland SPCA has halved the cost of adopting cats and kittens over the Xmas period, saying it is at "crisis point" with too many feline arrivals.

A teen accused of firing a crossbow bolt through the head of a cat has been granted name suppression in a brief court appearance.

The SPCA is reviewing its procedures around dogs after a volunteer was mauled by a "family" dog that had shown no hint of aggression until it attacked.

'Clearly this is not rocket science.' The SPCA is shocked by an Otara woman's cruelty in neglecting to change her dog's collar, causing it a serious neck wound.

A farmer has been convicted of ill-treating an animal after his dogs were locked in filthy kennels so long one chewed off its own foot.

The SPCA has clipped the wings of a programme that looked after injured birds.

Black swans run over by a boat, a pet sheep bashed and set on fire, and fowl found stuffed in a chest of drawers have topped the SPCA's 2013 List of Shame.

Driving dog Monty is heading for the big screen.

The canine heroes and victims of Christchurch’s earthquakes are immortalised in a new book by Laura Sessions and Craig Bullock.

Two Dunedin youths have been arrested in relation to the theft and mutilation of a pet lamb in the city last month.

A dog owner who starved a puppy to death today "narrowly" escaped jail, but has been banned form owning animals for four years.

The SPCA is calling for gin traps to be banned after two pet cats were caught and badly injured in west Auckland within a month.

About 60 "flat cats" came a step closer to domestic bliss at a clinic in Dunedin for the cats of tertiary students.

The owner of a lamb which was bashed and killed on Saturday says he has been blown away by one Central Otago sheep farmer's kindness.