A holy feline fan is borrowing a cat during his trip to Australia, it has been reported. Newspapers down under claim organisers of World Youth Day 2008 say they helped Pope Benedict XVI acclimatise to his dwellings by loaning him ...

Workers in Mansfield took delivery of a container and found a cat inside which had come all the way from Taiwan, it has been reported. Ginger, as the feline has been dubbed, accidentally made a 6,500-mile journey in the shipping ...

A cruise line has urged pet lovers to consider taking their animals on holiday with them rather than locking them up in kennels and catteries and risk driving them mad. Stena Line is encouraging customers to spare their pet the distress ...

The new "must-have pet" for animal lovers this season is a hedgehog, according to one commentator. Claudia Winkleman, wrote in the Independent, that these prickly pals will not spoil sofas like the nation's other favourite ...

A Labrador who once weighed in at a kennel-sized 7st 7lb has won his battle to fight the flab and been named pet slimmer of the year. The award was handed out by the PDSA after its annual Pet Fit Club 100-day diet challenge, which ...

A runaway can is in the running for a top national award at the Feline Oscars in London. Spats, who went AWOL after running away from his home in West Linton, has been shortlisted in the 'most incredible story' category at the 2008 ...

London's last remaining station cat has retired after 11 years of service working for the Snow Hill police division, it has been reported. Reagan was hired by the force when he was eight months old along with another feline, Carter, ...