‘Heartbreaking choice’: families forced to give up dogs and cats as Australia’s rental crisis bites
In states where landlords are free to always refuse pets, “people are turning up with broken hearts”, said the RSPCA South Australia spokesperson, Carolyn Jones.
Dogs have their day at the National Sheep Dog Trials in Canberra
The National Sheep Dog Trial Championships have been running in Canberra for 77 years.Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian Eighty-six-year-old Laurie Slater has two dogs competing in the top 20.
4 rules of pack structure
The best way to teach this to your pets is to follow the method wolves use to maintain their hierarchies. Feeding : In a pack, it is the right of the dominant animals to eat first.
These dogs look like real-life mops
(Picture: Igor Perfilyev/Caters News) A photographer has captured a pair of dogs with fur that resembled real-life mops. ‘It’s funny to see the reaction of the people who see these dogs for the first time, some ask why they look like mops.’