A MAGISTRATE has called for a psychiatric report on a 22-year-old Gosnells woman who faces jail for brutally stabbing to death her partner’s german shepherd dog.
Rebecca Louise Perring was due to be sentenced today at Armadale Magistrates court today for maliciously wounding an adult dog with a knife.
Perring pleaded guilty in December to the offence which carries a [...]
TELEVISION vet Katrina Warren was unable to take calls yesterday following the death of her beloved pet Toby The Wonder Dog at the weekend.
The celebrity pooch died in his sleep from old age at Warren’s Sydney home on Saturday aged 14 – an impressive 98 in dog years.
The chocolate-coloured border collie became a four-legged media [...]
THE Steve Irwin, flagship of anti-whaling campaigner Sea Shepherd, docked at Fremantle Port today where crew recalled their terrifying experiences fighting whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.
The Steve Irwin, which has waged a seven-week campaign against the Japanese whaling fleet, docked at Fremantle at 7.30am today, for emergency repairs, fuel and provisions.
Four of the six-man crew of [...]
The New Earth Festival Unfolds and Creates Itself …
People & Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Leading Musicians, Healers, Practitioners and Facilitators of Spiritual Consciousness from all round Australia and overseas are gathering to converge on the Claremont Showgrounds for the Festival.
Our Festival Program includes keynote speaker presentations and performances in the Theatre, experiential meditations and [...]
From serving it with turtle to stewing it with snake, China has savoured the delights of dog and cat meat for thousands of years. But now, the country known for its experimental culinary traditions could be about to end a centuries-old custom and remove both animals from the menu.
In what would be China’s first law [...]
THE person responsible for shooting a baby koala and its mother in Queensland could face two years jail or a fine of $300,000, the state’s sustainability minister says.
The baby koala is fighting for his life in a wildlife hospital after he and his mother were shot with a slug-gun.
The koala joey was found at the [...]
Never been to the Fairbridge Festival before? If you like your music live and acoustic this could become your favourite weekend of the year. Your senses will delight in an odyssey of sound and colour.
With over two hundred events on the program, no one can see and hear it all in two and a half [...]
Scientists have abandoned an experiment in which pigs were buried alive in snow and left to die after protests from animal lovers.
Researchers in the Austrian Alps wanted to study the effects of being caught in an avalanche and chose pigs because of their biological similarity to humans.
Some were completely submerged and others were buried up [...]
PAWS for a MEAL will be at Southbound 2010 serving the masses
THE SOUTHBOUND LINE-UP HAS GROWN AGAIN.
Perth’s annual summer love-in Southbound returns to Busselton in 2010 with a line-up worth rejoicing over. This time round Southbound is expanding to “a full two-day, multi-stage festival with three nights camping”. There’s also been a shift in [...]
Every year on the first of September, in a small town called Taiji on the southeast coast of Japan’s Honshu Island, a new fishing season begins: the dolphin season.
Twenty-six fishermen in 13 boats corral a few dozen dolphins into a small cove, where they kill the animals by stabbing them repeatedly with long harpoons and knives. [...]
