Animals/Pets news & information for Castile and Leon

PRIVATE plain-clothes detectives have been taken on to patrol the streets of a Salamanca-province village in a desperate bid to get dog-owners to clear up their pets' excrement.

A MISSING two-year-old girl has been found along with her dog, who kept her safe overnight for seven hours, reveal Guardia Civil officers in the province of Ávila.

The first two baby bear cubs born in the mountains of Palencia this year have been found by regional environmental officers.