A cobra was still on the loose in the western German town of Herne on Wednesday, with local residents told to keep their windows closed and steer clear of long grass.
Like many of us, the rat overindulged during the Christmas period and added a little ‘Winterspeck’ to its hips. A team of eight firefighters worked together to free the chubby rodent.
A hunter says he hopes the unfortunate fate of a fox who froze in Germany's river Danube will act as a stark "warning" to anyone considering walking on frozen waterways.
Police in Offenbach are still searching for Rudi the micro-pig, who went missing from an allotment on Saturday. Now his plight has made national headlines.
A family's much-loved cat who went missing from her home in the north-eastern Swiss city of St Gallen more than a year ago has been found 600 kilometres away in Bonn, Germany.
Two weeks ago, a German chicken-farming couple thought themselves lucky when they discovered a sizeable 184-gram egg - until their hen laid an even bigger one.
There were hectic scenes in eastern Bavaria on Monday, as the circus which owns Germany's last travelling bear tried to hide the animal from police - but to no avail.
Rabbit breeding: it's not exactly a typical hobby for a ten-year-old. But for Tim Behringer, it's a way of life - and last month, the young Bavarian received an international award for his hard work.
When pet cat Aljosha disappeared from his home in North Rhine-Westphalia for seven weeks, his owner feared the worst. But Aljosha hadn't gone far – he'd been holed up in a neighbour's wine cellar lapping up €40 worth of Riesling.
Four years after Berlin's celebrity polar bear Knut died, a neuroscientist has discovered the cause of death - an autoimmune disorder which affected his brain.
Three pygmy marmosets - the world's smallest monkey species - have been stolen from a zoo in the western German city of Dortmund, police said on Wednesday.
A woman in a village south of Berlin was shocked to find a rather unusual visitor in her garden on Tuesday. But by the time police got there he'd already bounced.
A cow escaped from a Munich abattoir on Tuesday, goring a 28-year-old woman who was jogging around the Theresienwiese, where Oktoberfest will take place later this month.
Four white lions born into the Krone Circus during its stop in Magdeburg yesterday find themselves in a Germany reliving a decades-old fight over exotic animals displayed for profit.
