The Latest Breaking News on Pets

So, tough one: which gives you greater life satisfaction, your spouse or your cat/dog? More to the point, is your dog/cat worth as much to your happiness as an extra £70,000? Ooh, even tougher. It was interesting, incidentally, that in the new film with Ralph Fiennes, The Return, about Odysseus…

Bhim Kohli, who was walking his dog, was racially abused, kicked and punched in ‘gratuitous’ attack

‘I suspect that many people don’t actually realise how important their pets are for them’

Dogs in court, alpacas on trains … the debate shows how much we lean on animals, and how little we regard their wellbeing, says journalist Elle Hunt