A 26-year-old South Auckland man has been charged with nine counts of bestiality and indecencies with animals across the mid-North Island.

The Onehunga man appeared in the Manukau District Court today charged with committing bestiality.

The charges were said to have been committed in Rotorua between August 2011 and August 2013.

He was also charged with bestiality in Taupo between 2012 and 2014.

One animal was also the subject of an indecency charge in the same period.

Three earlier charges in Tauranga between 2005 and 2008 alleged he committed bestiality.

The man was also charged with ill-treating a cat by drowning it, causing it to die.

He is due to re-appear in court on Wednesday.