We knew we should have saved the dead llama story for just one more day -- it's time for another Animal Roundup!

Kids and parents are freaking out in Mountain View, as the squirrels in Cuesta Park go on the attack! Over the last three months, three people have been bitten by the aggressive rodents, which are becoming desperate for food after the installation of anti-squirrel trash cans in the park. Check out this paragraph from the article:

Jennifer Packard's 4-year-old son was their latest victim. As she unwrapped a muffin during a picnic last week, a brown tree squirrel pounced on her son, Andrew, biting and scratching as he ran screaming through the park, then hanging on as he rolled desperately in the grass.

Andrew is undergoing rabies shots, and now tells everyone the squirrel was trying to eat him.

In cheerfuler man-animal partnership stories, UC Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley lab, and the East Bay Regional Park District are renting adorable goats again to reduce the fire threat by eating vegetation. It's cheaper and safer than a weed whacker, and "what you're left with are goat pellets."

And you know how that movie theater is opening at the new Westfield San Francisco Centre mall? They're sponsoring a pre-opening benefit for the SF Zoo. There's a silent auction, food by 'Wichcraft, and other festivities in the grand lobby -- and all nine of the theater's screens will be showing animal-related movies. Oooh, we hope one of them is The Cat From Outer Space. That's our most favorite animal movie ever.