Leading pet food manufacturing company, Burns Pet Nutrition which is based in Wales is sponsoring a project that has helped countless children across the UK and America to learn to read with the help of a four-legged canine friend. Danny is a rescue Greyhound who was found wandering the streets of Cork in Ireland. He was adopted by Tony [...]

Research from the Royal Veterinary College, commissioned by the RSPCA, released today has highlighted the most urgent issues that need to be rectified for the improvement of pet dog welfare in Britain. These include owners’ lack of awareness of welfare needs, poor health due to obesity, inherited disease or exaggerated physical features, intensive and unregulated [...]

Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity will tomorrow tell a Committee of MPs that the Government’s proposed Dangerous Dogs Amendment Bill has been hastily drafted, is extremely confusing and could end up criminalising responsible dog owners. The charity will tell MPs that while it supports the proposed change to the law to allow [...]

Statement below from C.A.R.I.A.D: Until such time as third party legislation exists to protect the public online from unscrupulous puppy dealers selling puppies bought from puppy farms, we are doing all we can to ensure that people understand the need to follow the best practice guidelines when looking for a puppy. This means always seeing [...]

Sophisticated gangs of thieves prowling Britain’s streets to steal dogs to order are identifying their victims – by daubing the letter ‘K’ on their driveways, police revealed yesterday. Lookouts are leaving the ‘K’ code in crayon or spray paint after finding valuable dogs worth stealing and selling in unwitting owners’ gardens in the Alsager area, [...]

Terrier who saved owner from a fire in Bristol is given a bravery award. The RSPCA is recognising the bravery and persistence of a terrier who saved the life of her elderly owner when she did not realise her bed was on fire. Barbie is a seven-year-old Jack Russell Terrier who lives with her owner [...]

Described as “shy” and “canny,” the New Guinea singing dog is one of the rarest dogs on Earth. Only about 200 remain in captivity, and in 2008, some experts feared that the species had become extinct in the wild. According to natives of the singing dog’s home territory, it has been years since they heard [...]

A dog has tragically lost its life after consuming poisoned salmon, it has emerged. The RSPCA said the golden retriever was thought to have ingested poisoned salmon pieces deliberately placed on the River Wey towpath at Godalming. Warning notices have been put along the route near Pepper Harrow Lane. A police spokesman said when the [...]

As part of its ‘Help Your Britain’ campaign, Bing UK is putting its search-engine power behind the Retired Greyhound Trust, which helps to find homes for racing dogs.

Clive Byles, Director of Operations at Wood Green, The Animals Charity, complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the newspaper had published an article which misrepresented the nature of a bequest that had been made to the organisation. The complainant was further concerned that the newspaper had failed to explain the reasons behind the charity’s [...]

Pets at Home has bought Vets4Pets for around £40m, and will integrate the latter’s 93 veterinary practices into its 166 in-store vet business. The deal will net millions for Vets4Pets’ founder, Peter Watson, a former Specsavers and Vision Express executive who set up the veterinary firm 12 years ago. It will mean Pets at Home [...]