He may still be England’s top goal scorer, and the nation’s favourite granddad, but Sir Bobby Charlton is in hot water with councillors near Cardigan, West Wales, for his dog walking antics.

The dog walking in question is shown in a TV advert, for Actimel, that features Sir Bobby walking his dog on football playing fields in a park, then when the ball comes near him he rifles it into the top corner, showing that despite being seventy-years-old, he’s in great shape.

This however has upset councillors from Y Ferwig, in Ceredigion. They say that the advert encourages dog walkers to walk their dogs on playing fields used by children.

The Advertising Standards Authority does not agree though, saying the advert doesn’t condone (more…)

It’s something you just don’t expect to see, a family of dogs playing happily with a cat… a wild cat at that! However that’s just what has happened, as a family of dogs has adopted a wild cat cub in Germany after the cat’s mother couldn’t feed her litter.

The wild cat is called Shakira, a Serval (African wild cat) and she was born in a zoo in Germany. She was very ill after her mother was unable to feed her, and her siblings all died. Luckily for Shakira, animal carer Roland Adam took the wild cat into his care, and that of his dogs.

Shakira came to us when she was just 14 days old. A friend of mine from the zoo contacted me and told me how Shakira’s mother had not (more…)

Dog breeder Liz Baird has been convicted of selling unhealthy dogs to customers, and of faking Kennel Club certificates to make out that the puppies were pedigree dogs, registered with the Kennel Club.

She has received a fine of £2000 and has been banned from selling sick dogs.

The story was broken by the Sunday Mail, which showed the extent of the problem, where hundreds of customers had been conned into buying dogs that they believed to be pedigree dogs, with a trusted lineage. In fact the dogs weren’t pedigree dogs, they weren’t registered with the Kennel Club and many of them were (more…)

He may have only a few weeks left in the White House, but he’s not going quietly. No, not George Bush, his dog Barney. With all the talk at the moment being about what dog Barack Obama will choose for his First Dog, the current First Dog wants some media attention of his own.

With that in mind he’s bitten a reporter, live on TV. Barney, a Scottish Terrier, bit out (more…)

An Accrington man, Liaquat Ali, has received a six-month jail sentence for organising dog fights after being investigated by the RSPCA. He has also been banned from keeping dogs for the rest of his life.

His convictions included organising dog fights, causing dogs to fight and keeping premises that were specifically designed for dogs to fight each other. According to the RSPCA, this is the first conviction they’ve achieved under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Two properties that Liaquat Ali rented were searched by the RSPCA last summer, where in one property they found a starving dog chained in a box, without food and water. The other property was a flat in Accrington, where they found (more…)