The biggest global event in the canine calendar - Crufts - returns next week at Birmingham's NEC as 24,000 dogs, representing 200 breeds, will try and win a Best in Show prize

And you can vote for your favourite

Dog owners must abide by welfare rules and paperwork intended for the commercial transport of cows, pigs, sheep and poultry

She would not have lasted much longer in the cold weather without her mother, food and shelter

23 were put to sleep

It's a mystery how Siberian Husky Aleks survived without obvious sources of food or water