Awww, look at that sweet duck. This duck is one of the survivors of last week's attack at the Campbell car wash, and was just found to have suffered a broken leg. The vets expect the duck to recover within 3-4 weeks. Meanwhile, the reward fund for information is now over $11,000. Editor and wag SFist Jackson forwards this along for the Animal Roundup, with the following note:

Beached whale! And no, I'm not talking Courtney Love.

Lotta animal news out there this week. First on everyone's mind is the situation in San Francisco concerning Nicholas Faibish, the boy mauled to death by his family's pit bulls, and buried on Wednesday. Yesterday, SF Animal Care and Control held the first of many meetings seeking public comment on how to handle pit bulls in the city. A large number of pit bull advocates were present at the meeting, and urged the city not to impose breed-specific legislation. One person said he didn't think that the dogs that mauled Faibish were even pit bulls at all. Everyone seems to agree, though, that a general requirement for spaying and neutering pit bulls in the city is a good first step. Sigh. In other animal news, the head of the SF Zoo penguin display is resigning because she got in a fight with the zoo vet about how they should have treated the penguins' recent chlamydia outbreak. We know, we know, it's not sexually transmitted in penguins -- but still, people! Ew! ...

Oh no -- not again. Nicholas Faibish, a 12 year old boy who lived in the Inner Sunset was mauled to death today by his family's two pit bulls. The police killed one dog on the scene when she wouldn't let them in to rescue the boy, and took the other, Rex (pictured at left), to the SF Animal Care and Control for observation. Neighbors report that the dogs were often very sweet, though others said sometimes they would bark and lunge menacingly. One of the dogs had been taken into animal control before, but ACC didn't believe it to be aggressive. The family was planning to move to Oregon this summer, and the principal at Roosevelt Middle, where Nicolas attended 6th grade, began to cry in the middle of tonight's eighth grade formal dance when she heard the news. Our sympathies go out to the Faibish family. Picture from the Chron by Deanna Fitzmaurice ...

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers a question about pet burial....

Bay Area crime roundup (special doggie edition)...

Ay yi yi! The SF Animal Care and Control is asking for your help -- yes, yours! -- in identifying the man outside the recently-renamed Monster Park who threw two helpless chihuahuas out the window of his speeding car yesterday night. ...