It was a regular old pussy riot on the airwaves this week after Gareth Morgan launched an attack on domestic cats.

American biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in. One is a harvester, or daddy-long-legs, another a jumping spider that leaps on to a leaf where two beetles are mating.

Logan Joel Dawson pleaded guilty to charges laid under the Animal Welfare Act by the SPCA and will face his sentence in Hamilton District Court.

After two days of frantic debate on cats in New Zealand it is worth paw-sing for a moment of reflection, writes Gareth Morgan.

A hospitalised woman who needed surgery after a savage attack by two dogs in Christchurch is questioning why authorities haven't impounded the animals.

A Tokoroa dog on death row for more than two years with a bill nearing $80,000 in upkeep and legal costs has been sentenced to death.

Up to 900 dolphins have been killed by villagers in the Solomon Islands, who claim it was an act of retaliation for not being paid money they were promised.

Cat-lovers have reacted with scorn and bewilderment to a campaign to rid the country of their pets - although conservationists say it highlights a serious problem.

In the still of the night, a sudden anguished screech shatters the still air. But there's no point investigating - there's a bird clamped tight in the jaws of a killer.

A second beaked whale to be stranded within 24 hours in Southland was euthanised yesterday by the Department of Conservation.

Top New Zealand economist Gareth Morgan is launching a campaign to eradicate domestic cats, calling them sadists that destroy native wildlife.

A Hawkes Bay family got more than they bargained for when they cracked open an unusually large egg laid by their pet chicken recently - another egg.

We love our pets, here in New Zealand, but not half as much as they love them in other countries.

Almost 20 abandoned animals featured in the Herald's summer papers have found homes.

Auckland Zoo's new “Keeper for a Day” experience allows visitors to work alongside keepers and step into areas of the zoo that are usually out of bounds.

The keepers at Auckland Zoo think they have the best job in the world, so we are trading our office shoes for work boots today to give it a go.

Rhonda Preston-Jones could be forgiven for thinking she was in Australia yesterday morning when she looked out the window and saw three pelicans only metres from her home in Waterview.

Members of the nzherald.co.nz team are trading their office shoes for work boots to give zookeeping a go.

New York's Bronx Zoo has welcomed a baby gibbon, the first born at the zoo for 12 years.

An 12 metre-long adult male sperm whale was discovered by locals this morning near the Kapiti Coast Boat Club on Paraparaumu Beach, north of Wellington.