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Boom in advertising trend for creatures to promote everything from cars to collars and ferries to wellies

The Newborn Ribbed Rompers have snap buttons which trading standards say can easily detach and a child may put in their mouth

Demo the cat has a history of bringing strange gifts home from a graveyard, but her latest feat is making her owner think that something supernatural might be going on

Robin Lehner’s decision to purchase a snake-breeding business in 2017 began a “Tiger King”-like episode that featured alleged non-payment of funds by Lehner and the murder of the snake farm’s previous owner by his wife and another man.

Spike, 23, from Ohio, has been crowned the oldest living dog by Guinness World Records despite a difficult start in life which changed when he was brought in by Rita Kimball and her family

"It's not just people with guide dogs, it's people in wheelchairs, for me, discrimination on any level is unacceptable."

Mia O'Connell was killed at four months old by the terrier Dachshund cross who was found standing alongside the baby with blood on its mouth, an inquest heard

Chewed across South-East Asia and the Pacific, a market for the intoxicating betel nut has opened up in Australia, giving some Solomon Islander seasonal workers a taste of home.

Spike, who was found in a car park in 2009, is 23 years old.