A spokesperson for the Dogs Trust charity has repeated an appeal for people not to buy puppies as a Christmas gift as they pause their adoption programme until January 4.

Heartbreaking CCTV footage of a confused terrier being abandoned, casually tied to a tree outside Dogs Trust, is set to form a central part of their Christmas TV campaign to keep canines for life.

If your dog is feeling scared or nervous, Dogs Trust has put together some tips.

Dogs Trust wants to ensure that every dog in Ireland can be swiftly returned to their owners should they become lost or separated from them.

The total number of dogs that were euthanised in local authority pounds last year was 778.

Dogs Trust has revealed that 75 people emailed them in 2018 looking to give up their dog due to problems with moving house.

Chocolate can be highly toxic for dogs and the charity says that it could be a recipe for disaster if they get their paws on it.

As part of the valentines campaign, the charity will also be offering a matchmaking service to those looking to make a furry friend for life.

Glen Hansard and Actress Victoria Smurfit join line-up for Late Late Show

More than four out of 10 (45%) Irish people don’t take any steps to ensure their dog hasn’t come from a puppy farm, according to a new study.

It may sound like jargon describing a particularly brazen population cohort, but Generation Pup has nothing to do with stratifying society according to birth years.

The Government has given almost €900,000 to councils around the country to tackle litter, graffiti, and dog fouling.

People are being reminded to check in on our elderly relatives and neighbours this evening.

Darren Kennedy is one of the few Irish people who has made provision in his will for part of his estate to go to charity, writes Liz O’ Brien.

Only four out of 10 dog owners have had their pets micro-chipped, despite it being a legal requirement, according to welfare charity Dogs Trust.

All together now … ‘and they call it puppy love’ …

At least four stray or unwanted dogs were put down every day last year, official figures have revealed.

Today's 'bring your dog to work day'

Kerry furniture designer Tricia Harris stretched the idea of a ‘room outside’ to an entire house at this year’s Bloom festival that opens today.

This video from Dogs Trust has to be one of the cutest things we've seen today.

This video from Dogs Trust has to be one of the cutest things we've seen today.

Five stray or unwanted dogs were put down in pounds every day last year.

Following a meeting between the greyhound industry, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and welfare members of the International Greyhound Forum (represented by Dogs Trust and the ISPCA), it was re-iterated that the well-being of greyhounds, including their physical and social environment, is at the core of Ireland’s greyhound industry.

We are writing as a concerned group of leading animal welfare organisations including Dogs Trust, Europe’s largest dog welfare charity, and two of Ireland’s oldest and largest animal welfare charities, the Irish SPCA and the Irish Blue Cross.

With hundreds of thousands of dogs not microchipped and registered by last Friday’s national deadline, the farmer organisations appealed to owners of the country’s dog population of about 1m to comply with the new mandatory requirement.

From tomorrow all dog owners will be required by law to have ensured their pet is both microchipped and registered on an authorised database.

Recently I gave over my column to the joys of sherry and wrote about how well it goes with food. This week it is the turn of port. Port and sherry are drinks we wrongly associate with Christmas when in fact they work all year round.

Hundreds of dog owners are taking advantage of free microchipping across Ireland this month.