Kyrgyzstan to issue passports to sheep
Millions of sheep in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan are to be issued with passports in a bid to monitor and control disease among the animals. Read More »
Legal guinea pigs: Swiss to vote on lawyers for animals
Switzerland could become the first country to give animals – including goldfish and guinea pigs – the right to be represented by lawyers in cruelty cases if voters back the plan in a March referendum. Read More »
Milking it: Introducing the world’s most expensive cow
A dairy cow from Canada has smashed agricultural records by selling for $1.2 million at an auction in Toronto – but the three-year-old Holstein called Missy has already repaid her new owners more than twice that sum.
Massachusetts outrage over llama farm killings
A small Massachusetts community has been stunned by the shocking killings of a pair of llamas on a local farm. Read More »
Introducing the micro pig: Clean, intelligent and loves TV
Forget cats, dogs and rabbits. The latest pet craze sweeping the UK is for “micro pigs” — tiny swine animals which prefer curling up on the sofa to watch TV with their owners to wallowing in farmyard muck. Read More »
Raise the alarm! Llamas go on the run in Kentucky
Three furry fugitives from a llama farm in Kentucky are safely back home after going on an “all-nighter.” Read More »
Dog-walking woman trampled to death by cows
A woman in Yorkshire, northern England, has been trampled to death by a herd of cows while out walking her two dogs. Read More »
Cows loose on moo-torway
Police were forced to close a section of the busy M25 motorway in Kent, southern England, on Monday after two bulls and a heifer escaped onto the carriageway after being involved in an accident in a horsebox. Read More »
No kidding: Google hires 200 goats in carbon cutdown
Internet giant Google has come up with a novel approach to cutting the grass outside its California headquarters this spring by hiring several hundred goats. Read More »
Supermarket matador takes on bull with shopping trolley
The beef at the meat counter was a little fresher than usual for shoppers at an Irish supermarket last week as a bull escaped from a nearby cattle market and rampaged through the store. Read More »
