The World Society for the Protection of Animals says thousands of greyhounds are hanged each year in Spain after the hare coursing season. This type of thing has always been a problem within greyhound sports throughout the world. Fortunately there are many groups, such as Greyhound Adoption Program and The Greyhound Project, who are actively retraining greyhounds as pets and offering them for adoption
Three moronic dog owners — Lloyd Earlington, David Hunkins and Julie Ward — have been jailed for three months each after 11 puppies died in a gross and barbaric
tail-docking operation. And, on a happier note, Forgea, the Jack Russell Terrier abandoned when the tanker she was on caught fire and the crew were forced to flee, has finally been rescued after 24 days at sea alone
Six red wolf pups — three males and three females — were born at the North Carolina Zoological Park on Sunday
Police will this morning try to identify human remains found inside a three-metre long tiger shark caught off the coast of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales late Sunday
Increasing demand since the late 1980s and successful campaigns to rid farmlands of plague-proportion wild rabbits by introducing the rabbit calicivirus disease have forced Akubra to import pelts from Europe
The retarded monkey boy suffered a double-edged loss in the Senate yesterday over drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Lawmakers for the first time delivered a stinging rebuke to a core item in his domestic agenda, and his defeat was engineered by three of his potential Democratic challengers in 2004
Police officers who were chasing a man after a traffic stop got an unlikely assist from a skunk, who sprayed the suspect in the face
Eurobodalla Shire Council staff, on the NSW south coast, have taken a walk on the wild side to solve a problem with the public toilets at Bodalla Oval. The toilets had been working only on and off in recent weeks with no apparent reason for their fickle behaviour. But a close inspection by council staff revealed that frogs had taken up residence in the old-fashioned cisterns and were sitting on the flaps that allow the units to refill
A needle which mimics the mosquito’s unique stinger
, making injections painless, has been developed by Seiji Aoyagi at Kansai University in Osaka and his colleagues, a team of Japanese microengineers
India’s Police Pigeon Service — which for more than half a century has provided a lifeline during frequent floods and cyclones in eastern Orissa state — is to be scrapped, according to a government proposal that believes that the service has become redundant with the advent of e-mail and electronic communication. Google’s patented PigeonRank system will, no doubt, be happy to take on a few new recruits
If you go down to the woods today, you are likely to come across a cleared path, a neatly manicured glen and a strategically placed water feature. Everything will be signposted and there will be few, if any, surprises. The British public’s fear of dark, imposing forests in which ghouls and goblins lurk has led the Forestry Commission to order a series of woodland makeovers
Kamuniak, the broody lioness, has adopted a third baby oryx in Kenya. She was spotted by tourists nuzzling a three-day-old oryx under a tree
Some insurance companies recognise certain breeds of dogs as threatening, which causes homeowners problems in buying policies
A recent study suggests that the domestication of dogs mutually led to profound changes in the biological and behavioural evolution of both species
Scientists warn the melting Arctic ice cap could lead to polar bears becoming extinct. Studies show the decline in the thickness and extent of the ice cap is causing hundreds of bears to die each year. Many of the estimated 25,000 bears spend long periods trapped on land rather than ice, where they find it hard to feed
When Channel Islands National Park officials needed an estimated about 300 rats exterminated on the east side of environmentally sensitive Anacapa Island, Aspen Ag Helicopters got the call. The kill was necessary because the rodents, descendants of rats that reached the island by way of a shipwreck a century or more ago, were decimating the populations of two rare seabirds. And GPS helped the helicopter company do the job — via Slashdot
Sydney’s bats can’t take a hint — you’d think the smell of python excrement would send them packing, but no. Smearing branches with chilli and shrimp paste didn’t work either
A high security jail which aims to turn dangerous dogs into well-behaved pets has opened in Berlin. The Berlin Interment Home takes in stray fighting dogs and domestic pets courts have deemed a danger to the public. It even has a canine death row
Floundering conservation group Earth Sanctuaries said last week it may have found a saviour for its collection of threatened animals, such as quolls and woylies, with 12 groups putting forward final rescue bids
A new luxury fibre industry could soon open up in Australia using fibres not from sheep but from rabbits. CSIRO’s Livestock Industries is investigating the establishment of a potential new angora rabbit industry in Australia
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