A Malaysian wildlife trafficker has pleaded guilty to smuggling 95 endangered boa constrictors and could face up to seven years in jail, officials said.

Racing Victoria (RVL) will allow racing over hurdles to continue for another three years as long as there are not more than three horse deaths a season.

A pet dog has died after being stabbed in its own kennel in the backyard of a house in Melbourne's north yesterday.

Airport customs in Thailand have found a two-month-old tiger stashed in a bag which was checked in for an international passenger flight, authorities say.

A Riverina man has been ordered to undertaken 400 hours of community service for killing a peacock in Griffith, New South Wales, then posting the footage online in 2009.

The RSPCA in Tasmania is to close its pet boarding service.

Police want public help to track down the people who mutilated a cat at Glenfield in Sydney's west.

Pork producers are maintaining their rage against the country's second largest supermarket chain Coles over its decision to stop buying fresh pork from farms which use sow stalls by 2014.

Thousands of animals are being abandoned every year because landlords are unwilling to rent homes to people with pets, the RSPCA says.

The RSPCA says it is disappointed with the sentence handed down to two teen boys who bashed to death lambs in southern Qld.

Anthrax has killed at least 83 hippopotamuses in a popular Ugandan game park that saw a similar outbreak six years ago, an official said.

Tasmania's peak animal welfare organisation has renewed calls for magistrates to impose harsher penalties for animal cruelty, after reporting a 37 per cent increase in complaints over the past year.

The duck survives a shot in the head

Retailer Coles has rejected a claim by South Australia's Agriculture Minister that it has coerced local pig farmers to stop using sow stalls.