Pets suffer health effects from poor diets too, so read ingredient lists carefully, writes Wendyl Nissen.

With media ready to whip up a frenzy over shark attacks, debate rages on whether we should cull the ocean's greatest predator, writes Susan Johnston.

This feline was quite happy nestled among soft toys.

What happens when rabbits are let loose in a yoga class?

Wee Wee the piglet was rescued by a family from the side of the road in freezing conditions during a blizzard in the US.

Woolson, the ram rescued by the Dannevirke SPCA in a night time operation by jet boat, has finally had what's believed to be his first shear.

The animal is thought to be a cross between a raccoon and monkey.

A 100-year-old woman in Miami woke in the middle of the night to this creature cuddled up on her chest.

Digby Livingston and Stephen Franks suggest the way to protect indigenous species is to farm them.

You can swim with just about anything these days - but on a tiny island in the Bahamas, pigs paddle with tourists.

A social media campaign today saw Countdown bombarded with pleas from consumers to stop stocking caged eggs.

Hamilton Zoo's chimpanzee troop will soon have a new member, with female chimp Sanda expecting a baby.

A pod of four of the whales were swimming around Evans Bay.

A runaway Shetland pony leads British police on a chase through Crawley, West Sussex.

Facebook has helped a Christchurch couple be reunited with their cat which went missing from a local cattery.

A baby snake at The Australian Reptile Park takes it's very first breath.

Dog attacks make up nearly three-quarters of the total convictions for dog-control related offences in New Zealand courts since 2010.

Feeling the back-to-work blues after the Christmas holidays? The cure may be as simple as taking your pet to work with you.

The unlikely friendship of a sick kitten and three dogs.

It seems pigs can fly after all.

Eighty pateke – New Zealand’s rarest mainland waterfowl –are being relocated to their new home near Bethell's Beach.

As Northland fisherman Philip Wilson watched a 4m great white shark chomp into the decaying carcass of a whale, he was not fearful but in awe of the massive fish.

An image of an injured joey with heavily bandaged hands, feet and tail shows the devastation the Western Australia bush fires have had on wildlife.

Is this the beginning of 'helicopter petting'?

Fifteen-year-old parrot Chico spent about an hour up two nearby trees during a free-fly session.

Chris Clemett is going to the Disputes Tribunal over the loss of his pet, Molly, from Beccijanes in Bryndwr.

Romantic zoo lovers are being offered the chance to pop the question as part of a late-night romance session at Wellington Zoo.

Cats are known for being elusive. The hiding place of this cat has the internet stumped.

Two rare Nepalese red panda cubs have been born at Auckland Zoo