All news on the topic: Animals

New York drinkers got a fright when the massive rat went on a tour of their favourite bar and staff frantically tried to catch it using a bucket and a washing up bowl

Manny the Frenchie, from Chicago, Illinois, has broken hearts around the world after passing away at aged 12 - but nobody could be more upset than owner Amber Chavez

A cruel dog owner has been fined and banned from owning animals for two years after vets realised he had illegally cropped his 11-week-old puppy's ears during a routine vaccine appointment

There is nothing more satisfying than sitting back in your garden and looking at all of your hard work blooming knowing that summer is here, but some of these common plants are overlooked as being harmful to our pets

Labour MP Barry Gardiner said he's appalled at the rise of back street canine fertility clinics, where owners are charged thousands for procedures carried out by unqualified staff

Arthur Boyt, 83, who was famous for collecting and cooking roadkill including badgers, pheasants and rats that he found, has sadly died following a battle with cancer

Lively poodle Lilibet was being sold inside a metal cage in China when she was found and rescued by charity workers, who helped the pooch to find her new home in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Rochelle Steffen, founder of Mac’s Mission in Missouri, US, came to rescue Pearl on Saturday after she was found covered in thick-flea-ridden fur and with one eye

Lancashire Police told Mirror the force is investigating a video, circulating on social media accounts like Twitter, which shows a young man hurl a cat off an abyss at a quarry

Ex-Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliot has settled a lawsuit from a Frisco neighbor involving his dog biting her

Merlin is a one-and-a-half year-old mini Vietnamese Potbelly pig who lives a well off life of treats and cuddles and being pushed around in a pram by his owner Mina Alali

Jan and Paul Egginton are warning other pet owners after their dog, Cove, died within minutes of ingesting lethal blue-green algae while on a walk at Wimbleball Lake in Exmoor National Park

Kayleigh Smee threw the eight-year-old pet Chihuahua to his death from a second-storey flat during a “terrible” row with her boyfriend

What's happening in the woods around where Michael Burham escaped from a Warren County, Pennsylvania, prison last week? Survival experts have some ideas and also shared what it might take to catch him

Portia the pig was left almost completely lame from seven years living off a diet of biscuits and cola, but now has a field to herself on a sanctuary in the Wirral, Merseyside

Andy Rule, 53, and wife Claire, 50, have spent more than a decade tracking big cats - and now they believe they've their cameras have picked up images of a creature in the wild

Charities and organisations have formed a coalition to press for an overhaul of the 2004 Hunting Act, which was meant to ban fox hunting with packs of hounds

A woman in Oklahoma City has said she is scared most nights by a bang on her back door by a mysterious winged creature. Carol Dillin says the creature 'really frightening'

After a tough few months of losing her 23-year-old dog, Paris Hilton was overcome with joy as she announced the new addition to her family in a gushing Instagram post.

South Wales Police are appealing for witnesses after a dog died and its owner was injured following an attack in the Crymlyn Burrows area between Swansea and Neath, Wales, on June 4

To overcome the intense heatwaves scorching the US in recent days and weeks, many animals have been seen 'splooting' in patches of cool earth to reduce their body temperatures

RSPCA runs stings to take down the violent and disturbing groups who organise the fights, some reported to be worth up to £50,000

J the llama, from Llama Adventures, has gone viral on social media after attending a wedding dressed as a groomsman and posing with the bride and groom for their official wedding album

Spud the hamster has sadly passed away but owner Lisa Murray-Lang is paying tribute to the roaming rodent by taking his ashes on a tour of Europe

Habib Battah, his wife and their two cats had been flying from Paris to Toronto on June 30 when they were met with the bloody mess. Flight attendants would eventually tell them that a previous passenger had hemorrhaged during a June 29 flight from Boston to Paris