Six fluffy blue ducklings will take their first outing, to an outside pool, for the first time this afternoon.

'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.

Shark finning will be banned in New Zealand waters under a government proposal announced today.

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

A runaway police dog named Zinny sparked an all-out search this week after bolting from a handler during a comfort stop.

Sequoia the dog is classified as a menace to the community, though she has done nothing wrong.

A giant wedge-tailed eagle has reportedly been blown off course from Australia and taken up residence on a coast west of Auckland.

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.

Sumeet Satishwar captured these incredible images of a dead shark's pups at Muriwai Beach.

SPCA launched its annual appeal today with two of its world-famous driving dogs 'digging deep' for bags of money on Auckland's Kohimarama Beach.

An actual party animal has become a worldwide sensation after his night out with a bunch of French revellers went viral.

More Aucklanders than ever were bitten, butted and bruised by dogs last year as record levels of claims for dog-inflicted injuries were reported.

The owner of a horse that lost litres of blood after being frightened by the neighbours' fireworks is calling on people to think about pets this Guy Fawkes' night.

Jemaal Large and Jason Godsiff waited until after dark, took galvanised steel pipes from their vehicles and bludgeoned 23 seals to death by inflicting crushed skulls and open wounds on them.

A 90-year-old woman was knocked to the ground by two dogs, which then ripped her miniature Yorkshire terrier from her arms and mauled it to death in front of her.

A 43-year-old beekeeper went into "venom overload" after he was stung up to 50 times on the head and neck by a swarm of bees.

The second man convicted for his part in beating 23 fur seals to death on the Kaikoura Coast has been sentenced to eight months' home detention.

One of two oarfish found in California waters earlier this month had a host of parasites living in its giant, serpent-like body.

Solving problems isn't exclusively human but working out how animals do it is tricky, writes Clint J. Perry.

Indonesia's capital is getting rid of the monkey business. Security forces are conducting raids to rescue macaques used in masked monkey performances on Jakarta's streets.

Game over. Cats have won the internet. At least that was the conclusion among the many attendees of the internet Cat Video Festival.

People who farm unusual breeds tell Dionne Christian why they find it so appealing.