Dogs

Death by chocolate: More dogs at risk this Christmas, warn vets (This is London - England, UK)
A record number of dogs could be killed this year by their owners feeding them chocolate, vets warned yesterday. Many pet owners do not realise that ...

Border collie will display sheep gathering skills at Walk Your Paws (The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA)
A herd of sheep stand 100 yards away, and the 21/2-year-old border collie squirms in place as his instinct plays tug of war with an obedient attitude....

Castration, death for danger dogs in proposed law changes (New Zealand Herald - New Zealand)
By Juliet Rowan Menacing dogs will have to be neutered under proposed changes to the Dog Control Act. The Government announced the proposals yesterday ...

Rabbits

Is rabbit the new chicken? (TV3 News - Auckland,New Zealand)
They were once the scourge of central Otago farmers, but now rabbits are making a comeback in the city, on restaurant tables. Bendigo Station in central ...

Pet subjects (Telegraph.co.uk)
United Kingdom I want to get another rabbit, but not if the risk of myxomatosis remains. MS, Wiltshire Myxomatosis originated in South American rabbits as a relatively ...

RIP, pygmy rabbit (Scientist - UK)
Onyx, who is 75% Columbia Basin rabbit and 25% Idaho rabbit -- the Columbia rabbits are officially endangered, and there has been a petition to list the ...

Forget Google. Bunnies rule the Internet (MSNBC - USA)
By Helen AS Popkin Over the years, the couple shared their home with a series of domesticated rabbits. As humans do, Sharon and Bill imbued their bunnies ...

Town hit by rabbit disease (Wigan Observer - Wigan,England,UK)
Vets across the borough have been called on to put down increasing numbers of rabbits because of a renewed outbreak of myxomatosis. ...

Hamsters

Sheep

Sheep ID tags to combat disease outbreaks (Silicon.com - UK)
By Natasha Lomas Electronic tagging of sheep will be mandatory for UK farmers from 31 December 2009 as part of a European Union ruling to help combat ...

Future fears of hill sheep farmer (BBC News - UK)
Allan Young, a hill sheep farmer from near Inverness, is questioning whether there is a future in the industry. He said it has been hit hard by restrictions ...

Bluetongue 'affects sheep sales' (BBC News - UK)
Farmers inside the bluetongue control zone in south-east England have said they are being forced to sell sheep at half price because of restrictions. ...

Strathisla Suffolk Sheep Flock Open Day (Stackyard - Carlisle,UK)
One of the most successful and influential Suffolk sheep flocks from Aberdeenshire has won the Society's top flock award completing a hat-trick of top ...

Outdoors: Bighorn sheep remain ram tough in Southern California (San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA)
In fact, it was two bighorn sheep ramming heads, part of the rutting ritual rams go through in their annual fights for dominance of ewes in each family herd ...

Chickens

Battery egg ban in 5 years (Mirror UK)
Eggs laid by battery hens crammed into tiny cages will be banned by 2012. Compassion in world farming, which has campaigned tirelessly to stop cruel practice involving 20 million chickens...

Ukraine bans imports of Canadian poultry over bird flu fears (The Canadian Press)
The strain is the same one behind a 2004 outbreak in British Columbia that saw 17 million chickens destroyed. About 50000 chickens infected with the avian ...

Chickens could power electric grid (Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK)
An average chicken farm in Britain contains about 90000 chickens and generates several tonnes of waste a day, which could be turned into fuel. ...