Animals

Animals make us "more fully human" and should be celebrated for it, the Rev Helene Mann told the 12th annual pet service at St Paul's Cathedral yesterday afternoon.

Dunedin police are appealing for sightings of a dog that attacked two alpacas, one of which was later put down, at a Dunedin property yesterday

Disturbing numbers of endangered Hector's and Maui dolphin deaths have been reported in the last year, showing new protection measures are not as effective as had been hoped, University of Otago Associate Professor Liz Slooten says.

An Arrowtown veterinarian has cured an Arthur's Point dog of her chronic joint injury by conducting the first animal stem-cell procedure in the South Island.

A proposal that could require some property owners to collect sheep droppings accumulating on their land has come as a surprise to Cr Michael Guest, the chairman of the Dunedin City Council working party considering the new rules.

An unseasonal influx of stray and abandoned felines has left the Otago SPCA struggling to care for them all.

Decades of stories and rumours about moose sightings have been brought together in a new book which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the animal's release in Fiordland.

One of the great white sharks tagged by a team of New Zealand scientists has set a world record for the deepest known dive: 1200m.

China's latest must-have luxury for the ultra-rich, to go with mansions and sports cars, is a large, slobbery dog with massive amounts of hair best known for herding sheep in Tibet.