STV:

A cat which lives at a city rubbish tip is to be rehomed after a red tape row with a local authority.

Nicknamed Stig of the Dump, after the popular children’s book, the cat has lived at Inverness Recycling and Waste Centre for more than a decade.

The elderly cat helps keep the site free of mice and rats but is not owned by any of the staff there and his vets bills are paid for by donations from generous visitors to the dump.

A Facebook campaign was launched after Highland Council banned staff from accepting the donations…

The Star:

The Toronto Zoo’s elephant keepers are up in arms over a late-night city council vote to send the animals to a sanctuary rather than an accredited facility.

“No offence to any city (councillors) that made the decision, but they’re quite honestly not qualified to make a decision on what’s best for these elephants,’’ an angry Vernon Presley, one of seven elephant keepers at the zoo, told the Star Wednesday night…

Daily Mail:

The wife of the Ohio exotic animal owner who freed the creatures before shooting himself in his driveway last week has launched a legal bid to reclaim the surviving animals.

Lawyers for Marian Thompson have contacted the Columbus Zoo, where the animals were taken after the full-scale big game hunt in Zanesville, about taking back three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys.

But the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is trying to stop her…