If you're thinking about getting a pet rabbit for Easter - or at any other time - here are a few things to keep in mind.

The SPCA believes too much money is being spent on an animal cruelty case.

Lovable bottle-nosed dolphin makes it on to top 10 list for Time magazine

Moko the cheeky bottlenose dolphin has been named on Time magazine's website as one of history's most heroic animals.

It's the dream of many a youngster to own a pony. Shelley Bridgeman takes a look at what is actually involved.

Three-year-old Oracle Brampton was savagely mauled by a dog while trying to pat it.

A devastating pig disease which broke out in the North Island in 2003 and crossed to the South Island in 2006 is still spreading, farmers say.

Concern for animal well-being is the reason Maureen and Dick Boyd set up a cattery at Te Horo, about 60km north of Wellington.

Linda Herrick encounters a rugged yet sensitive stranger in a romantic Spanish setting.

In a secret spot, restricted to visitors, Jim Eagles marvels at the elegant, isolated beauty of NZ's only flock of endangered white heron.

Animals just keep on dying of neglect at the notorious Kiev Zoo.