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Anyone who feels they don't have enough fun with their rabbits could try taking part in show jumping competitions with them.

This is what lots of owners are apparently now doing in countries as diverse as Japan, the US and Canada, with each bunny having to leap over a series of obstacles similar to those seen in dog obedience courses.

German rabbit Snoopy is one of the champions of Kaninhop and his owner Claudia Fehlen told Der Spiegel he can jump 60cm in the air.

The

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Keepers at London Zoo are having to take action to beat a sudden increase in theft at the popular visitor attraction.

However, the crimewave has come from the inside, with the new Bolivian squirrel monkeys proving to have a tendency to be light-fingered.

The cheeky little primates have become obsessed with people's sunglasses, whipping them off the heads of visitors as they pass through the meet the monkey exhibition.

However, they then parade their trophies inside their

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Most youngsters, after being told they cannot get a pony, go into a grump for a while and then get over it.

However, Regina Mayer from Germany decided not to let it hold her back – and taught one of her parents' cows to jump instead.

Regina, now 15, befriended calf Luna not long after she was born and would walk her through fields on the farm. After six months, she introduced her to a saddle and climbed aboard.

Although the teenager said the cow looked "peeved"

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The owners of a cat who has a thunderous purr have submitted a Guinness World Record to see if she is the loudest feline across the globe.

Smokey hit headlines last month when her owner Ruth Adams told the press that the moggy drowns out the TV and callers on the phone when she starts rumbling.

The racket was compared to a lawn mower or hairdryer and Ruth thinks she is in with a good shot at breaking the world record for the loudest purr.

She contacted sound specialists from

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Everyone's heard of sheepdogs – and thanks to Babe, sheep pigs – but an incident in China has had people flocking to a farm (sorry) to see what its owner claims is a very unusual creature.

Liu Naiying said he went out to his fields this week to discover that one of his ewes had given birth to a puppy.

It has a woolly coat, but also a dog's paws, claws, mouth and nose. In fact, looking at the pictures, we're pretty sure it is, in fact, a dog.

However, Liu insists