Birth control is to be used on pigeons in California in an effort to combat the “unmanageable” mess their increasing numbers are causing.
Animal rights groups support using the contraceptive in preference to other methods such as gates which give electric shocks and poisoning.
A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home’s residents are about to die is baffling doctors.
Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours.
According to the author of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.
Rats are being trained by police in Colombia to sniff out landmines – with the help of cats.
For the past year, a special police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of their training.
More than 100,000 landmines, planted mostly by leftist rebels, are scattered across the war-torn South American country.
A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps.The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos.
The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started paying for his crisps.
Kenyan donkey owner struggling to tie a nappy on his donkey
Donkey owners in the Kenyan town of Limuru are up in arms over an order from the municipal authorities that their animals must wear nappies.
The council said the measure would come into effect on 16 July to ensure the town’s streets are kept clean.
Police in Iran are reported to have taken 14 squirrels into custody – because they are suspected of spying.
The rodents were found near the Iranian border allegedly equipped with eavesdropping devices.
A farm in the Staffordshire Moorlands is offering pet “weddings” for people who want their dog, cat or farmyard animal to get married to its mate.
Endon-based Fine Feathers started offering the service after it hosted a ceremony for two of its own dogs.
Hippo Jessica weighs almost a ton and enjoys sweet coffee and a massage before she goes to bed. She’s a hippo with a big identity crisis – she thinks she’s a family pet.
Tonie Joubert, a retired game warden from Hoedspruit in South Africa, found her washed up on his land by flood water when she was just a day old.
Mind your Ps and Qs in the jungle – gorillas have impeccable table manners.
Field staff working on a project in Africa have been tracking the animals by following a trail of ape serviettes.
It seems our distant cousins are a bit like us when it comes to finishing their food, especially after munching on the oily detarium fruit.
They also reach for something to wipe their mouths and hands.
A cat has been reunited with its owner 10 years after going missing.
Lynx disappeared from her home in Hook, Hampshire, in 1997, and her owner, Patricia Charnet, thought she would never see her pet again.
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