Dogs
Can't commit to a dog? Borrow someone else's
Many of us would love to have a dog, but can’t take on full-time ownership. Sarah Walker has set up the Dog Share Collective to connect people who love dogs with pooches that need a little more… Audio, Gallery
Chch council muzzle rule breaches animal welfare code - SPCA
Christchurch City Council has told 159 people they will have to keep their dogs, classified as menacing, muzzled at all times, but SPCA says that would breach the Animal Welfare Code. Audio
Dog muzzling rules in Christchurch
A dog rescue group is furious a letter sent out by Christchurch City Council demands that some dogs must be muzzled at all times outside of a cage, including in the home. Audio
Dogs that sniff out pest fish
Waikato University researchers are training pet dogs to sniff out pest fish such as koi carp. Video, Audio
Dogs that sniff out pest fish
Waikato University researchers are training pet dogs to sniff out pest fish such as koi carp.
Video, AudioOur Changing World for 1 March 2018
Waikato University researchers are training pet dogs to sniff out pest fish that are a problem in Waikato lakes and rivers. Audio
Dog Behaviour Expert, Dr Clare Browne
Dog behaviour explained with Dr Claire Browne Audio, Gallery
Clever canines
How do dogs think? Do they experience emotions such as jealousy? The Clever Canine Lab at the University of Auckland is investigating. Audio
Clever canines
How do dogs think? Do they experience emotions such as jealousy? The Clever Canine Lab at the University of Auckland is investigating.
AudioOur Changing World for 25 January 2018
Testing dogs to find out how smart they are and how they think, and designing low-damage buildings that move during an earthquake and remain useable. Audio
Born to run: adopting a greyhound
Greyhounds are mostly known for their racing on the track, but did you ever wonder what happens to them after their career ends? and why people adopt them as pets? Radio student Megan Hutt answers… Audio
The ten species that changed our world
Over many thousands of years, our hunting-gathering ancestors foraged and tracked down a whole host of plants and animals.Then people learned that you could derive more value from nature by taming and… Audio
Owners ignoring 'no dogs' signs on Northland beaches
Pet owners are ignoring 'No Dogs' signs in Northland, and it doesn't take much for a mutt to get wind of a kiwi bird, says predator control operator Jarrid Plows of Whale Bay. Audio, Gallery
Dogs and thunder
There's been a week of thunderstorms with around 40,000 lightning strikes, 11,000 on Tuesday alone. Animal control workers had to return many dog to their anxious owners after they bolted. Social… Audio
Dateline Pacific evening edition for 28 November 2017
A Fiji opposition party says the government has produced statistics on the sugar industry that bear no relationship to reality; women in Fiji are waiting nearly two and a half years before reporting… Audio
SPCA in Cooks aims to control wandering dogs
The SPCA in the Cook Islands wants help to do something about wandering dogs which bother livestock on Rarotonga. Audio
You paw thing
Animal behaviour expert Clare Browne gives advice on wayward dogs. Audio, Gallery
Old dogs, new homes
In the past five years, Retired Working Dogs Adoption has rehomed hundreds of huntaways, eye dogs and beardies that are too old to work, have been injured or are just not up to the job. Audio, Gallery
Old dogs, new homes
In the past five years, Retired Working Dogs Adoption has rehomed hundreds of huntaways, eye dogs and beardies that are too old to work, have been injured or are just not up to the job.
AudioBolt guns used to kill impounded dogs
Craig Johnson of Massey University on the use of bolt guns to kill unwanted dogs at the Invercargill pound. Audio
