These abused pets got their furry-tail endings

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Your kids your laughs your friends your world

your kids your laughs your friends your world ...

Georgina’s cat had begun acting strangely – was she trying to tell her something?