A French poodle won the heart of a fastidious English officer by covering him in mud.

Twenty teams of dogs ran a life-or-death race against time over Alaska’s frozen trails to bring medicines to desperately sick children.

A cat moved home from Edinburgh to Glasgow and seemed to settle in nicely, but it turned out she was only biding her time.

Sir Nicholas L’Estrange recalls two astonishing eyewitness accounts of the resourcefulness the fox.

In Jim Baker’s considered opinion, the bluejay had a much better command of language than Mark Twain’s cats did.

The doorman of a Paris theatre had strict instructions to keep dogs outside, but it was the humans they let in who caused all the trouble.