The coastguard performed a daring rescue of a dog and a stranded puppy who were stuck on a cliff ledge, as the tide rose around them. The Ness Coastguard Rescue Team was aided by coastguards from Bragar and Breasclete and together they managed to safely rescue the two dogs.

Carol Campbell, the watch manager for the Stornoway Coastguard stated:

This rescue was carried out in very challenging conditions on the highly exposed Atlantic cliffs on the west side of the island with driving rain and (more…)

One dog was rescued from the sea, near Sunderland, but a second dog was lost as the two chased each other into the waves. A Staffordshire Bull Terrier chased a Jack Russell into the sea, falling into difficulty and prompting two men to dive in after them.

As the two men themselves struggled, the RNLI were called to assist. One of the men made it ashore with the Jack Russell, but the second man had to be rescued by emergency services. As he was taken to hospital, the RNLI lifeboat attempted to look for the second dog, (more…)

A woman is suing an ex neighbour over accusations that he killed her dog and dumped the dog’s body in her garden. Sixty-year-old Tricia Wales has raised £1,600 to make her private claim after the RSPCA said they wouldn’t prosecute the man accused of killing the dog.

Tricia Wales is prosecuting a former neighbour, Neville Hill, who has already admitted to hitting her dog, a five-year-old border terrier, with a hoe. He claims he killed the dog after he found it in his garden, but as the dog didn’t suffer, the RSPCA say they will not prosecute.

Mrs Wales claims that her dogs were playing in her garden when she went out, when Mr Hill killed her dog:

Hill said that my dogs got into his garden, that they were circling his hen coop and distressing his animals. There was a horrendous dog fight which culminated in him hitting (more…)

A stray dog who saved over 100 lives in the second world war is to have his medal auctioned next month. The stray dog, named Rip, was rescued by an Air Raid Precaution warden in 1940 when the German’s were bombing the Poplar area of London.

After being rescued, Rip paid his saviour back by sniffing out victims of the German air raids, saving over 100 people in London. As a result of his heroism, Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal, which was the animal version of the Victoria Cross. Spink, the auction house, will be auctioning off the medal on April 23rd, and it’s expected to raise as much as (more…)

According to new research in the USA, Americans are finding that their small furry pets are causing them accidents. It appears that as many as 240 Americans find themselves in hospital every single day because they’ve fallen over their pet cat or dog.

According to research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 88% of falls in emergency rooms were caused by cats and dogs. Almost 8 million Americans are treated for falls every year.

The research also showed that women were more than (more…)

Fans of Baywatch are used to seeing fit, toned and tanned bodies running in slow motion on the beach to save someone in distress in the sea. Visitors to a beach in Cornwall however are used to a more ‘hairy’ sight running up and down the beaches, and no, we don’t mean David Hasselhoff.

A beach in Cornwall is more used to seeing Bilbo, a Newfoundland, leaping into action to save people. However, Bilbo was recently banned from saving lives on the beach amid fears over health and safety.

The problem is that dogs have been banned from the beach, and this includes Bilbo, a lifeguard on the beach. However Bilbo has been reinstated to his duties after locals and tourists (more…)

If ever there was an example the phrase ‘overkill’, the recent news on what local councils have been doing is a classic example. Powers put in place to combat terrorism are being used for crimes as trivial as dog fouling and littering.

News has emerged that councils in the North of England have used CCTV camera that were installed to battle terrorism up to 500 times to combat dog walkers not cleaning up after their dogs. One such council using these measures to tackle dog walkers is Darlington Borough Council.

The figures were obtained by the Liberal Democrats, who have claimed that the use of these spying measures for trivial crimes is an invasion of (more…)