Brent Gallagher thought he was a goner as he lay on the ground with serious injuries and a raging bull called Pistol Whip bearing down on him.

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

Sometimes you just need someone to listen - even if that someone is a ball of fluff that hits snooze for two thirds of its life.

It is not the infamous seal that took over a car wash in the area earlier this week... this time, it's a baby!

A Wellington Zoo staff member has travelled to Colombia to help a local conservation group care for endangered primates.

Benny tries to look innocent but his scruffy mug says a thousand words.

A new warning has sounded for the world’s smallest dolphin, with a New Zealand researcher now reporting there are less than 50 Maui’s dolphins left.

Award-winning film-maker and author Lloyd Spencer Davis, aka 'Professor Penguin', is regarded as a world authority on penguins. He talks to Jennifer Dann.

Danish radio presenter bludgeoned a baby rabbit to death with a bicycle pump whilst debating animal rights live on air.

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

What happens when you lock one of New Zealand's most hated predators up with two other notorious killers?

Forget The Bachelor - it's a tiny crab that takes the cake for the ultimate act of courtship.

Watch: DOC officers finally capture loose seal that caused chaos in South Auckland and "freaked out" morning commuters.

Tourists captured the dramatic rescue of a giant 16 foot-long anaconda, which had become trapped in bushes behind a resort in Colombia.

VIDEO: Residents of a Brisbane neighbourhood are being stalked by a giant kangaroo, taking locals by surprise as it wanders fearlessly around the streets.

"I call her the undie thief." A fleet-footed family pet with criminal tendencies is proving a headache for her embarrassed owner.

They perform feats of amazing acrobatics, create intricate works of art and some just look weird - but until last year these species were completely unknown to science.

A heartwarming video captured the moment police officers rescued a dog from certain death by pulling it from a landslide.

Paddle boarder Luke Reilly had a close encounter with an orca just 200 metres from the shore.

The close of the kiwi hatching season has been delayed this year after the discovery of a late egg.

Several sheep were killed in a fire that destroyed a woolshed in Manawatu this morning.

The victim of a crocodile attack has told how he shoved his finger into the 2.5-metre reptile’s eye in a desperate bid to free himself from its thrashing jaws.

A week ago Thames was lost and alone in the bush. Now he's dining on dried liver, soaking up the love and sporting a shiny coat from a spa session at a pet salon.

It appears this python bit off more than he could chew - or rather swallow - after he consumed a large pair of barbecue tongs during his feed.

No chickens were harmed in a fire that tore through a commercial chicken processing plant in rural Waikato this morning.

A giant conger eel weighing in at 59kgs and measuring 6.4 metres has been caught off the coast of Devon.

Scientists have long assumed that all fish are basically cold-blooded, but all that has just changed.

A male orangutan at a US nature preserve has taken a liking to three tiger cubs, after watching his human caretakers nurse the three baby cats.

A Rotomanu farmer who stood trial in March for his part in the starvation and death of nearly 800 cows has been found guilty.

A mother bear and her cubs gave tourists in America's Yellowstone National Park a sharp refresher in the rules on how to appreciate the wildlife - stay a safe distance.