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In 1972, two twenty-one year old Englishmen were sent by a strange religious sect to help the street dogs of Trinidad and became involved in an escapade so bizarre you could not have made it up. They arrived at the end of a State of Emergency, after an eventful sea voyage on a tramp steamer, without visas or work permits and travelling with a crate of drugs and guns. The Mayor of Port-of-Spain embroiled them in his re-election campaign and they soon became headline news, upsetting the Government in the process. Meanwhile they were put up in a house of ill-repute, were suspected of being spies...

This books follows the adventures of a young RSPCA officer in the early 1970's, working for the RSPCA London Night Emergency Service, which operated from 1936 until 1983, during which time it was looked upon as the fourth London emergency service coming to the aid of injured and trapped animals throughout Greater London. Whether it was a cat is stuck in a drainpipe in Soho; a dog impaled on railings in St. James's Park; or a dog trapped in an escalator at King's Cross Underground Station their rapid response vehicle was there to help the animals. All the other emergency agencies at the time...

For several decades wild and domestic animals have been transported by air and subjected to considerable suffering and trauma. This technical revised study report first printed in 1985 documented part of a trade which remained mostly hidden from view to the general public, only witnessed by those working in the air cargo industry or in the field of capturing, exporting and importing wild animals for the pet trade, research and zoos. Millions of creatures were and still are shipped by air round the world sometimes under horrific conditions causing terrible suffering and death, while...