Using a tactic he learned in class, he put the attacking dog in a chokehold and held it for at least 20 minutes until help arrived.

A disabled woman was slashed repeatedly with a knife after confronting a gang who had stabbed her dog to death in her garden.

While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province — where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup — just shrugged her shoulders and wielded her cleaver.

An Japanese man accused of killing two people and seriously injuring a third has allegedly blamed his actions on the fact that his pet dog was put down when he was 12.

A couple recently had an unexpected reunion with an old housemate: their pet cat who went missing more than 13 years ago.