Local officials in Britain were reported to be furious after road workers apparently painted a white line on the side of a highway right over the furry body of a dead badger
Veterinarians have harnessed the power of New Zealand green lip mussels to produce a dog food that helps to relieve arthritis pain suffered by ageing canines around the globe
Detectives are investigating the mystery of a hamster found driving a toy racing car along a promenade at a northern seaside resort
A Hong Kong animal rights group, Animals Asia Foundation, will honour eight dogs this weekend to raise awareness of the therapeutic benefits of man’s best friend
Shooting and poisoning feral animals is failing to reduce their thriving populations throughout NSW, warns a report on the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s efforts to control pests. Instead, farmers and other landholders must be persuaded to repair the environment to make conditions less hospitable for introduced species
Young children who share their home with two dogs or cats in the first year of life are half as likely to become allergic to those animals than kids who grew up with only one dog or cat, or no pets
Tiny little hairs and not any kind of chemical glue help a gecko race up and down vertical surfaces as smooth as glass
Lost your cat or dog? No need to whistle or call on a fruitless search — just track your pet with your mobile phone
An escaped emu caused confusion in Hamburg after a woman called police to report what she thought was a bare-chested man with two big white dots on his forehead staring into her window
It’s easy when you have drunk 12 pints to forget that lions are carnivores and do not like ice cream. And it probably seemed a good idea after a night on the beer to break into a zoo, find a cage and stuff Cornettos through the mesh
A bald eagle that was left for dead after its beak was shot off is alive and tearing its prey to shreds again thanks to Dr Brian Andrews, a Canadian dentist, who fashioned an artificial bill out of acrylic denture material
Scattered around the planet are hundreds of creatures that have been to the Moon and back again. None of them are human. They outnumber active astronauts 3:1. And most are missing. They’re trees. Moon trees
An intrepid bunch of rabbits have emulated Indiana Jones, turning into archaeologists to unearth a rare and ancient glass window in central England
Ever wanted to keep stray dogs or neighbours from trampling your backyard, but just couldn’t find the system to really deter them? Why not build a bi-polar Tesla Coil system — via Slashdot
The remarkable toolmaking talent of a New Caledonian crow called Betty has challenged the chimpanzee’s reputation as the most proficient toolmaker in the animal world. The bird, one of two kept at Oxford University’s zoology field station, fashioned a hook from an ordinary piece of wire — something even a chimp cannot manage
After more than a decade of trying, Australian researchers have created a highly infectious virus that could wipe out the country’s rabbit pests by making them sterile
Kramut Kennels — the breeders of one of my beasties, currently have Siberian Husky pups on the ground. They will be available to be taken home mid October
Robert Young, an animal behaviour expert at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, and his colleague Rebecca West of De Montfort University in Lincoln, UK are convinced that dogs can count and researchers at the University of California Davis say they try to convey different messages through the pitch and pace of their barks
Todd, a young black Labrador, paddled for 10 miles over six hours, dodging ferries, oil tankers and yachts to reach land after falling overboard from his master’s boat off the southern English coast
A British couple are laying claim to the best-travelled pet in the world after their cat, Ozzy, hid in the hold of a passenger jet and clocked up 63,000 miles
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