A poodle owner is facing a £500 fine for dyeing her poodle pink.

Joy Douglas says she dyed Cici, her white miniature poodle, to call attention to breast cancer. She says she used beet juice and Kool-Aid.

The poodle owner, from Boulder in the US, was fined last week under a local law that makes it illegal to dye animals.

She should be fined for owning a poodle in my opinion.

Two drunken pranksters tried to hitch a lift home from a pub on the back of a dolphin, a court heard.

Friends Michael Jukes and Daniel Buck ignored signs about bothering the bottlenose which had been swimming near the shore at Folkestone, Kent, and grabbed its dorsal fin and tail, magistrates were told.

The pair, the first people in Britain to be charged with interfering with a dolphin, later allegedly told police that they messed about with the mammal nicknamed Dave by local residents as it was cheaper than an exotic ’swimming with the dolphins’ holiday.