NEWS AND COMMENT- PALU CITY, CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA: An Indonesian bird catcher/seller has said: “I hate seeing animals trapped and suffering”. He was being praised and lauded by others because he had freed, with the help of others, a tyre from around the neck of …
Jacqui and Colin Fearon were asleep on their boat which was moored in Farndon Marina, Nottinghamshire. It was the early hours of last Saturday. Their dog started to bark. Blinky woke up Mrs Fearon. She was surprised because Blinky is not known for his barking. …
Pictures of players from Russia’s Zenit St Petersburg football team went viral after they carried dogs from local shelters onto the field to promote adoption.
COMMENT ON THE NEWS: This report comes from Wales and Hope Rescue in Rhondda Cynon Taf. I don’t know if their reporting is applicable to other areas of the UK but it is concerning nonetheless. We know that during the pandemic lockdowns there were about …
Novice pet owners who adopted a dog or perhaps a cat during the extended lockdown in the UK because of the Covid pandemic are regretting it because the reality of looking after a companion animal does not match up to their dream. And if 46% …
Inline with many recent news media stories about pet dogs being the new currency for criminals because they’ve become so valuable due to pressures on the marketplace brought about by coronavirus lockdowns, police have seized 83 allegedly stolen dogs on a travellers’ site in Suffolk, …
Sally Hall, 55, got a shock when a mouse appeared on the wipers of her car on the M25 in Kent. Sally was driving her horsebox when she suddenly spotted the little blighter. You can see it running up and down the wiper blade as …
There is an argument that firefighters in the UK should not be involved in rescuing animals. I suspect that not many people subscribe to the argument but there are those that do. The classic incident is a domestic cat stuck in a tree rescued by …
She was so excited to get home that she completely forgot about her baby, couldn’t wait for the side to be opened and decided to climb out of the top instead. The mother is Skye and the joey is Walker. Skye was very keen to …
