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A white coat saying “DVM” but no licence: a man who treated dogs and cats for years without passing his exams has been arrested in Nashville

Police in Nashville, working with prosecutors and the US Drug Enforcement Administration, have arrested 45-year-old Prashant Pandya, known to pet owners as “Dr Pandya” of the Caudle veterinary clinic. He never held a…

12/11/2026

Treatment & surgery · Japan

Red flags, ropes and a saw: Nara in Japan has held its deer antler-cutting ceremony, a tradition more than 370 years old. Why it is done and whether it hurts the animals

12/11/2026

Law · India

From a Mumbai flat to a forest school in Sumatra: India has for the first time sent home a confiscated CITES-listed animal, and five baby orangutans now await a decision

12/11/2026

Law · South Africa

“Euthanise or enclose”: Cape Town plans to move more than 60 baboons that open windows and raid kitchens into a fenced enclosure, and residents protest every weekend

12/11/2026

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Eagles versus puffins: a debate in Britain over whether bringing back the white-tailed eagle could wipe out seabird colonies on Wales's famous islands

The white-tailed eagle, wiped out in Britain by 1918, is coming back: Scotland already has more than 200 pairs, and birds are being released on the Isle of Wight and Exmoor. Now there is a proposal to release up to 60…

12/11/2026

Law · Ireland

€60,000 for a young sheepdog's bite: in Ireland, the family of a girl whose ear lobe was almost bitten off by a neighbour's dog has settled with the owners in the High Court

12/11/2026

Research · Germany

The dog on your walk as a detector for nature: in Germany, owners and their pets learned to find invasive plants with 75% accuracy

12/11/2026

Treatment & surgery · Other European countries

Boar versus hound: vets analysed 237 cases of hunting dogs injured by wild boar – almost all needed surgery, but 99% of those that recovered went back to hunting

11/11/2026

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A white coat saying “DVM” but no licence: a man who treated dogs and cats for years without passing his exams has been arrested in Nashville

Red flags, ropes and a saw: Nara in Japan has held its deer antler-cutting ceremony, a tradition more than 370 years old. Why it is done and whether it hurts the animals

From a Mumbai flat to a forest school in Sumatra: India has for the first time sent home a confiscated CITES-listed animal, and five baby orangutans now await a decision

“Euthanise or enclose”: Cape Town plans to move more than 60 baboons that open windows and raid kitchens into a fenced enclosure, and residents protest every weekend

News from Europe

Eagles versus puffins: a debate in Britain over whether bringing back the white-tailed eagle could wipe out seabird colonies on Wales's famous islands

€60,000 for a young sheepdog's bite: in Ireland, the family of a girl whose ear lobe was almost bitten off by a neighbour's dog has settled with the owners in the High Court

The dog on your walk as a detector for nature: in Germany, owners and their pets learned to find invasive plants with 75% accuracy

Boar versus hound: vets analysed 237 cases of hunting dogs injured by wild boar – almost all needed surgery, but 99% of those that recovered went back to hunting

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