2+ hour, 33+ min ago  (311+ words) "She walks in there and it's like "OK, look at me, here I am'," owner Val Pike says. Pike and Rimu are one of 10 volunteer owners and dogs who will join the nationwide Canine Friends Pet Therapy programme on July…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (330+ words) Nancy, a 3-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier, was yesterday announced as the winner of this year's Southern Cross Pet Insurance Dog of the Year award. Nancy is a regular visitor to Dunedin Hospital wards, including the intensive care unit, offering comfort…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (515+ words) A falcon found seriously injured on a Canterbury highway was saved by a team of "bird taxi" drivers who rushed it to a wildlife hospital hundreds of kilometres away. The battered k'rearea/New Zealand falcon is lucky to be alive…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (533+ words) It wants the introduction of dog breeder licensing, clear dog breeding regulations and an updated code of welfare for dogs. SPCA senior scientific officer Dr Alison Vaughan told RNZ's'Nine to Noon programme today people would be shocked to learn how…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (795+ words) Lizards are set to be debated at a one-day ecology hearing in front of the fast-track panel today. A joint witness statement was worked out earlier this week. Nine expert witnesses had a conference on Wednesday to discuss issues around…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (266+ words) The German shorthaired pointer is now'fully trained biosecurity detector dog working at Christchurch Airport. He was found in September last year and taken to the city council dog shelter when no one came forward to claim him. Shelter support officer…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (261+ words) But they would reopen the investigation if new evidence was brought forward, a Doc spokeswoman said. A member of the public contacted Doc on April 27, after discovering three breeding pairs and two juvenile penguins dead in a cave at the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (290+ words) But the 18-year-old University of Otago first-year student remained sceptical " until yesterday afternoon. When word of three humpback whales swimming in Otago Harbour spread around the university and reached her and her friends, they all raced down to the Steamer…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (528+ words) The successful freeing of a southern right whale off the Bluff coast was a "particularly complex" operation, the Department of Conservation says, as new details of the first-of-its-kind rescue emerge. The tohor" whale was freed from entanglement in a blue…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (534+ words) The tohor" whale was freed from entanglement in a blue cod pot line in a complex and technical operation " the first time this species, a taonga for Ng"i Tahu, had been disentangled in New Zealand waters. On Tuesday, Doc,…...