They say that love is blind and knows no barriers. For Staffordshire Terrier Dixy and his porcine partner Polly that’s certainly true.

Police in Paignton, Devon are hunting cruel pranksters who used a high pressure air pump to inflate a families dog.

Innovative loans company Provisa, who specialize in offering short term loans to people living on benefits, have come up with an inventive way to allow new borrowers to secure their debt – on their pet dogs.

In a rather bizarre use of animal cruelty laws, 29 year old James Budden from Huddersfield, England, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and banned from keeping pets for a period of 5 years after being arrested for smearing his penis with bacon and inserting it into dog owners letterboxes, encouraging the pets to lick off the fat.