The mysterious and totally unauthorised neutering of pedigree cat Buddy has infuriated his Tauranga owner, who can no longer lease him out as a stud cat.

The SPCA is is preparing a case against a person believed to have cut off an eight-week-old Tauranga puppy's ears with a pair of scissors.

The potential refurbishment of the St James Theatre has received a boost from Auckland Mayor Len Brown.

A Rotorua woman had to put down her 2-month-old kitten after finding it injured in an apparent hanging outside her home.

Auckland's SPCA is gearing up to receive more than 1000 animals that will arrive over the busy Christmas/New Year season.

A mother dog howled all night after she fished her six dead puppies out of an estuary after they had been dumped in a shopping bag.

The family who adopted Trooper - the puppy that was rescued after being found outside the Gate Pa shops, in Tauranga, with its ears chopped off - say he is settling in to his new home very well.

The pit bull puppy found in a Tauranga shopping area with his ears chopped off will head to a loving new home today.

Tauranga residents are concerned they are dealing with a serial animal abuser after a kitten was violently thrown against a door and killed this morning - the third horrific act of animal cruelty in the city in a month.