A fox found with bleeding gums has led to pet owners in Eastbourne being given a stark warning.
The veterinary team at local charity East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) is battling to save the life of the fox which was rescued suffering with what they believe could be the effects of rat poison.
Experts from the Highcroft Veterinary Group have confirmed the most likely cause of the fox’s symptoms is warfarin, which is commonly put down to kill off rats…
For months Sunny, a once-noble chestnut stallion, wallowed in a mud puddle in a tiny backyard in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.
He could barely lift his head and was too weak to stand, so he laid down — becoming thinner and thinner — and slowly dying.
Calls to the Lancaster city animal control went unheeded, neighbors say, and Sunny’s owner claims he didn’t have the money to take him to a veterinarian…
Only Fools And Hedgehogs will raise money for a national charity based in Ludlow that protects the prickly creatures during autumn.
Actor John Challis will be the guest of honour at a Chef’s Table Restaurant at Ludlow Food Festival, which runs from Friday to Sunday – and sales of Old Prickly Beer, which is brewed in Cleobury Mortimer, will help raise cash for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
Mr Challis is a patron of the charity and hopes that people will buy bottles of Old Prickly at the Chef’s Table Restaurant…
A London schoolboy will eclipse the teenage William Hague’s famous Tory Party conference speech tonight when he presents a campaigning film he has made about animal welfare to MPs at the Commons at the age of nine.
Ayrton Cable — grandson of Business Secretary Vince — said he was “not nervous” about appearing before the invited audience of politicians and lobbyists…
Animal rights activists have urged people to boycott a circus visiting Pendle which uses performing animals.
Campaigners from Animal Defenders International (ADI) are up in arms over Circus Mondao, which is in Kelbrook until Sunday.
The international animal rights group claim the zebras, camels, llamas and reindeer endure constant transportation and live in rudimentary conditions…