WHY are humans so totally inconsistent, particularly where animals are concerned? On Sunday at Barwon Park in Winchelsea _ the place where in 1859 the un-smart Thomas Austin decided to release 12 pairs of imported rabbits simply for the pleasure of

Apparently on a Friday night beer run, a 125-pound bear strolled into Marketplace Foods in Hayward, Wisconsin and headed directly for the liquor department, reports the Associated Press. Spotting the beer cooler, the bear climbed up 12 feet and climbed

Their high-street shops have raised tens of thousands of pounds for activists intent on stamping out fox-hunting through 'direct action'. Now fox hunting supporters have retaliated against the Lush chain of soap stores with a wave of violence - by

ThE owners of an adventuring cat which regularly catches a train to Scarborough marine-life sanctuary to watch the fish said today it would be enjoying its new-found celebrity status. Percy the cat has become the most famous pet in Scarborough, after it

There is a birthday party Tuesday at Orissa's Nandankanan zoo and school children are invited. Officials at the zoo have ordered a special cake for the two tiger cubs who were born a year ago and a party has been arranged.

The debate on whether wolves should be reintroduced to Scotland has been turned into a play. Playwright Samantha Ellis's The Last Wolf in Scotland will

Two Canadian lynx cubs have been killed by their father - and another cub suffered serious injuries to her leg after a rough play session.

An ugly scene on the side of the road turned uglier in McClellanville, S.C. last week, leaving a dog dead, one man in the hospital and another in jail.

A quickly growing grass roots group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=48 96776099 is nearing 400,000 members. It has come into being to stop the reprehensible, inhumane and illegal act of dog fighting!

You might not be able to bell this cat. But you could collar it. That's perhaps what the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) proposes to do under a new plan to have ID cards for all the big cats across the country. The unique card would have