NEWS AND VIEWS – PHILIPPINES: it is reported that a police officer was killed by a fighting cockerel when the bird’s bladed spur struck his leg and he bled to death. The police officer, Lt Christian Bolok had picked up the bird in cockpit in …
There is a sinister story in the newspapers today about the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un declaring in July that pet ownership is a “tainted trend of bourgeois ideology”. It is reported on a Asian newspaper website that North Korea has launched a clampdown on …
There appears to be a craze in Japan for keeping otters as pets. It’s a dangerous craze because it could drive otters into extinction, conservationists have warned. Otter pups are taken from the wild, from their mothers in order to feed a commercial demand supplying …
