An agreement set to be announced at the upcoming EU-UK summit could mark the return of pet passports allowing easier travel across the Channel for holidaymakers with dogs, cats and ferrets.
Nine years after the obligation was scrapped throughout Switzerland, all Zurich dog owners will have to attend, from June 1st, a training course called Hundegesetz in German.
Even though it has strict animal rights laws Switzerland remains the only European country where eating your pet cat or dog is legal, but the Swiss actually still do it?
If you own a dog – or are planning to get one – and live in Zurich, then you need to be aware of some changes that are coming as part of a new Dog Law (Hundegesetz).
Dogs are widely considered man’s (and woman's) best friend. However, according to some Swiss cantonal governments, some dogs are more dangerous than others.
An escaped border terrier named Lucky made an epic 160-kilometre journey across Switzerland on the eve of the country's national holiday before being found and returned to her owners.
When it comes to animal rights and welfare, the Swiss leave nothing to chance — they have legislation that sets conditions of care for practically all types for pets and farm animals alike.
A pet can become ill or injured in an accident and need emergency veterinary treatment at any time - and this can quickly become very expensive. But when does taking out pet insurance in Switzerland make sense?
Police investigators are searching for a person they believe killed three dogs by leaving pieces of meat filled with objects including nails and razor blade fragments in a garden in the town of Rohrbach in Canton Bern.
Switzerland’s top dog, the Saint Bernard, is being given recognition by the city of Bern, which is staging an exhibition of colourful doggie sculptures from Saturday.
Swiss rescue dogs are to get a helping hand from the air as the Swiss Society for Rescue Dogs (Redog) announced on Thursday it would now be using drones during searches for missing people.
