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Jump rabbit, jump rabbit, jump jump jump: Showjumping bunnies star at London Pet Show

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:05:43 +0100

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. The accompanying picture is indeed a showjumping rabbit, taking part in an agility test at the London Pet Show, which took place at the weekend.

When the cat’s away: new system allow owners to track their errant moggies' movements

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:55:37 +0100

Is there a more heartbreaking sight to be regularly seen on a suburban street than a lost-cat poster? You get lost-dog posters, too, but they’re nowhere near as common. Right now, if you live in suburbia, there’s a good chance there will be a lost-cat poster within four or five roads of your house, and, unless you’re made of steel, it will be accompanied by the inevitable, aching questions.

Fido strikes gold with Britain’s most noxious biofuel: dog excrement

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:05:39 +0100

Dog mess: to most of the population, it is a bio-hazard about as welcome and useful as syphilis. Even those required to collect it approach it with a plastic bag and a grimace. But for one former banker, it is the key to a tantalising civic and eco-energy revolution.

The dog-friendly restaurants where the meat is best served on the bone...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:05:59 +0100

On Friday, invitations went out to next week’s “VIP launch night of Bites and Bones” at the Bluebird restaurant in London. Held to celebrate a new dog-friendly menu, the event promises “doggie cocktails, canapés and goodie bags”.

Google, Amazon, The BBC: Office dogs are giving us paws for thought

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:46:18 +0100

It seems the latest star of the BBC is a golden retriever called Miss Molly. If you caught the politics show This Week you would have noticed that the 10-month-old dog was given free rein of the studio and so decided to have a wander around the set. She even had a snooze in the lap of guest David Starkey and cuddled up to Terry Wogan.

Cutest at Crufts and beyond: It's the dogs of awwwwww...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:05:58 +0000

You little beauty: rare dog breed Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen wins Crufts Best in Show

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:27:17 +0000

A Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen called Jilly was tonight crowned Best in Show at Crufts.

Cat lovers of the world unite and take co-ordinates

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:21:02 +0000

Do you love maps? Do you love cats? If so, check out the Zoological Society of London’s latest promotional wheeze, which combines the two. Catography, if you will. The idea is that in the run up to the opening of London Zoo’s new Tiger Territory area (a £3.6m enclosure where endangered Sumatran tigers will be living) on the 22 March, cat fans can add the location and name of their moggy to an interactive map of the world.

Dogs 'see things from a human point of view' - at least when it comes to stealing food

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:21:16 +0000

Pet dogs may understand a human’s point of view, according to new research which suggests they are more likely to steal food when they think that nobody can see them.