Deborah Fuller, from Essex, received a 12-week suspended prison sentence after being caught with ten dogs, despite being banned from keeping animals in 2015. Fuller was convicted in February this year, after “staff from a store Fuller visited regularly gathered CCTV footage and photographs of her breaching her disqualification order, having a dog in the […]
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Chinese activists save 68 dogs from meat truck as Yulin festival begins
Chinese animal activists in Guangxi have intercepted a dog truck outside the city of Yulin, just as the annual dog meat eating gets underway – despite Packed with 68 terrified and sickly-looking dogs, the truck was headed for Yulin’s slaughterhouses when activists intercepted it. After urging Yulin authorities to step in with checkpoints to confiscated […]
Water rescue dogs save 14 people at sea in Italy
Three have been hailed as heroes after helping rescue fourteen people, eight of whom children, after a sudden change in weather left them unable to return ashore on their own. Three families were bathing around 100 meters off a beach in Sperlonga, in central Italy, when the weather changed and waves turned rough, throwing them […]
‘Outstanding’ RAF Police Dogs receive ‘animal OBE’
Two Royal Air Force (RAF) Police Dogs are being honoured today, 11 August, with a for “their career of exemplary service to society”. This is considered akin to an “animal OBE”; Alfie and AJ take the total number of PDSA Order of Merit recipients to 32 animals. English Spaniel Alfie and Labrador AJ both served […]
Petra and the Dogs in Danger
After writing dedicated to her late Dalmatian Lucy, Cumbrian children’s author Helen Haraldsen is back with another doggie adventure – this time featuring Petra, her Pointer… When Lucy died suddenly in April 2020, I thought I would never be able to finish the book I was working on, The Dalmatian that Lost its Spots. But later, I […]