A New Zealand dairy company is reportedly being investigated by Chilean authorities over allegations it inhumanely slaughtered thousands of calves it couldn't use for milk production.

'I'm a grown woman - I feel discriminated against.' Housing NZ is tightening the leash around allowing dogs in state houses, and tenants are unimpressed.

The picturesque bay at Taiji, 420km south of Tokyo, is the site of the world's largest annual dolphin slaughter.

A swimmer who had a close encounter with orca in Wellington's Lyall Bay yesterday was never in danger, an orca expert says.

When most of us think about pets it's cats and dogs that top the list. Sally Hibbard sheds some light on five alternative animals worth considering.

Canterbury SPCA welfare investigators are run off their feet trying to catch up after a record month for complaints in December.

Washington and Tokyo have been drawn into an unexpected diplomatic spat over the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji.

'These whales have to get out today if they want to make it.' There's a dire warning for a pod of 50 whales stranded at Farewell Spit, as three more die.

A colony of ants have set up home in the International Space Station as part of an experiment to see how their behavior changes in an environment of low gravity.

Over 250 dolphins are being held captive in a cove on the coast of Japan, waiting for either a life in captivity, or slaughter.

Once a pony girl, always a pony girl it seems, as Joanna Mathers reacquaints herself with her love of horses.

A babysitter attacked by a dog wants the Dog Control Act reviewed after she was threatened with prosecution.

A large number of pilot whales refloated after beaching at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay are in danger once again.

A pod of orca whales has been spotted near the entrance to Akaroa Harbour on Banks Peninsula.

'It could've been a child.' A man has been arrested and charged over an incident where a quad bike hit and killed a puppy on Haumoana Beach.

Eight pilot whales which have restranded themselves at the top of the South Island will be euthanised.

To most people, putting a birdcage on your head and jumping into the ocean with a live tiger shark is an obviously stupid thing to do.

Found wandering the streets as a chick, this hen is ready to be given a loving home.

A small pod of pilot whales that beached on Farewell Spit yesterday is back in the water, but they leave behind five pod mates who died overnight.

Missy is a 2-year-old female staffie/boxer mixed breed dog that needs some company.

Time was running out tonight for a group of pilot whales to swim back out to sea on the high tide after becoming stranded at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay this morning.

A fisherman has become a phenomenon in his native Japan after catching a four-metre giant squid off the coast of Sadogashima Island.

Hundreds of dead red-billed gulls at Taiaroa Head on the Otago Peninsula are no cause for concern, the Department of Conservation says.