On a hot day in June last year, Anita Krajnc stopped on the side of a road in Burlington, Ontario, next to a large trailer packed with grunting pigs.

Sherlock and Berlin are four and eight year-old chocolate labradors. They are two of more than 4600 labradors in the city, the most popular dog breed this year.

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Auckland Zoo has welcomed its first new arrival of the season with the birth of a kiwi chick. The zoo announced the news on Twitter

Meet Little Andrew, a cat who held his owner's hands as he made his final trip to the vet.

Vets are urging owners to keep their dogs away from poison after two fell sick in Auckland over the past week.

A fire fighter was lowered into the natural limestone shaft - just 40cm wide - to rescue Middy who had been missing since Saturday.

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"We're not a free charity at all but we try to bend the rules sometimes for the animals' benefit and when the owners are doing the best for their animal."

A 12-year old hunter who posted photos of herself with a dead giraffe, zebra and impala has hit back after outrage over her controversial hobby.

A mundane loan application became an unlikely source of humour for a pet owner when she found herself fitting into an unexpected cat-egory.

Faith, the last hippopotamus in New Zealand was put down by zoo staff yesterday.

Kea researcher Paul van Klink has raised the issue that giving Keas mountain cafe food is damaging the birds' health.

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New Zealanders own more pets per household than anywhere else in the world, apart from the United States, according to a new report

Footage of a kiwi apparently "dancing" around a feeder has been posted online by staff at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary, near Dunedin.

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A medical trial to discover whether it is possible to extend the lifespan of pet dogs has shown early signs of success.

This afternoon on NZ Herald Focus Tristram Clayton finds out about a brand new SPCA initiative that’s teaching NZ kids about being a responsible pet owner in a way that keeps them focused and engaged.

A woman in a submerged car could be heard yelling "Oh my God, I'm drowning" before two men on a boat got to her.

The mauling of a 15-year-old dog in Masterton has left its owner feeling "wrenched".

COMMENT: This week Colin got stuck under our house. During the half hour we spent trying to talk him out, I came to realisation dogs don't speak English.

If we had it our way, our pets would never get injured. But owning a dog can be like looking after an accident-prone child sometimes

A zoo in a Ukrainian village has introduced its newest arrivals to the public for the first time: five newborn white lion cubs. The color mutation is rarely seen in the wild.

Dylan Cleaver meets the owners and competitors striving to be Best in Show and discovers if owners really do look like their pooches.

Rats are being trained to sniff out landmines and tuberculosis in Tanzania as part of a project which could one day use rodents to diagnose cancer. Landmines continue to maim and kill across Africa and Asia but with the rats' help the Belgian nonprofit organisation Apopo has already neutralised 83,000 of the weapons.

Panicked roars from underground alerted farmers to trapped leopard.

A stray dog waited six months outside a hotel in Argentina for an air stewardess who showed him just a little bit of affection.