Arts & Entertainment One Year After Her Rescue, Gem The Trash Puppy Raises Thousands For SF ACC It was December 20, 2013 when a Recology staffer rescued a wounded, two-month-old puppy just moments before she was dumped off a conveyor belt from a truckload of recyclables. At first, officials weren't
SF News Freeway The Chihuahua Rescued From Interstate 680 Late last week, a terrified-looking female Chihuahua was found stranded, trembling on the center divider on an Interstate 680 overpass in Walnut Creek. Lacking treats to talk the animal down, California Highway Patrol
Arts & Entertainment Video: Our Red Panda Hysteria Continues Apace Last week we met the San Francisco Zoo's impossibly cute Red Panda. Then we took a look at his posh treehouse abode. Now our favorite Musteloid (sorry, otters, you're yesterday's animal news) has
Arts & Entertainment We Will Not Apologize For More Photos Of The S.F. Zoo's New Red Panda Yesterday we met the San Francisco Zoo's unnamed Red Panda. We learn today that Mr. Red Panda (as we will call him until he gets an official name) has an adorably vicious thirst
Arts & Entertainment Meet The SF Zoo's New Red Panda UPDATE: More red panda pics! On Saturday, May 10th the San Francisco Zoo will welcome the newest addition to its incredibly adorable family: a 10-month-old male red panda. Naming rights will go to
Arts & Entertainment 'Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos' Is The Video We All Need Right Now The debate over which San Francisco burrito is the best burrito will probably rage on eternally until The Big One hits and the whole city eventually falls into the ocean. But until then
SF News Extremely Lost Sea Lion Pup Winds Up In Modesto Almond Orchard Late last month, a tiny and extremely lost 36-pound sea lion pup ended up about 100 miles from the Pacific ocean when he accidentally swam up the San Joaquin river and hopped over
SF News Some Monster Is Hunting Monterey's Adorable, Endangered Sea Otters Brace yourselves for your Monday outrage: six months ago, three male sea otters — one adult and two juveniles — were found dead near Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, California. The cause of death
Arts & Entertainment Video Of Baby Otter In Monterey Momentarily Distracts Entire Bay Area In Monterey, Calif., where the conditions are perfect for adorable wildlife and tourism to both thrive, a wild mother sea otter was spotted last week floating near the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a
SF News Baby Dolphin Born Into Life Of Suburban Captivity Earlier this month in Vallejo, Calif., a young, first-time mom gave birth to a bright and energetic offspring who will probably never know a better life outside the confines of a pool in
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F. Zoo's Baby Wallaby Eats Lettuce, Is Adorable When we checked in on the San Francisco's new red-necked wallaby joey last month, the little guy or gal had not even shown its adorable little face to the public yet. And who
Arts & Entertainment The Top 10 Shamelessly Adorable Local Animal Photos Of 2013 As we look back at the pages of SFist from the past year, one thing really leaps out at us: There were a lot of really adorable animal photos this year. And for
SF News Trashpuppies and Catnappers: Your Animal News Roundup The holidays can be stressful for everyone, but somehow most of us manage not to throw puppies in the trash. Not so for the persons now wanted by the Animal Care and Control
SF News S.F. Zoo's Baby Gorilla Runs This Town, You're Just Living In It This morning at the San Francisco Zoo, Kabibe the baby gorilla made her public debut. As someone who has no regard for material possessions and the politics of normal humans, she is (for
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo's Holiday Forecast: Adorable With A Chance Of Baby Wallaby It's been a banner year for the San Francisco Zoo. First Jillian the tiger cub pounced into our lives, then all 5-feet and 10-inches of Erin the giraffe swept us off our feet.
Arts & Entertainment Here's Your Holiday Season Kitten & Puppy Cam From The SPCA It's the Monday before Thanksgiving and all through the Macy's Holiday window display some creatures were stirring and they were all adoptable from the San Francisco SPCA*. Also, you can watch them tumble,
Arts & Entertainment These Chacoan Peccary Pups Are The Cutest Baby Animal We Just Learned About Look at these tiny animals. "What is a Peccary?" You're probably wondering to yourself, "like some kind of pig thing?" Well, you'd be close, but Chacoan Peccaries are actually much more special than
Arts & Entertainment New Komodo Dragon Proves There Is Ugly Stuff At The Zoo Too When it comes to Zoo life in San Francisco we here at SFist admittedly have an adorable bias. So, in the interest of fairness to non-mammal, non-bird animals (sorry invertebrates; you're still gross)
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Penguin Chicks Waddle Their Way Into Our Hearts On Saturday, the San Francisco Zoo's new waddle of penguin chicks had a graduation of sorts. After several weeks worth of intense eating, squawking and napping at Fish School, the four girls and
Arts & Entertainment Seven Very Short Films Starring Baby Penguins As our new pals at the San Francisco zoo get closer to Fish School graduation on July 27th, local penguin whisperer/"penguinologist"/our new best friend Anthony Brown has been documenting the little
Arts & Entertainment Baby Gorilla Already Aping For The Cameras Not even two days old and San Francisco's own western lowland gorilla princess is already learning how to deal with life as one of the offspring of an incredibly important bloodline (endangered gorillas,
Arts & Entertainment Welcome To The World, San Francisco Zoo's Baby Gorilla! Cementing the San Francisco Zoo's reputation as a world-class destination for looking at baby animals, 14-year-old western lowland gorilla Nnenka brought this 5-pound, 1-ounce hairy little bundle of joy into the world Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo's Penguin Chicks Attend Fish School, Graduate With Honors In Cuteness The San Francisco Zoo's colony of Magellanic Penguins welcomed five new chicks back in May. Later this month, the young ones will make their first public appearance when they waddle their way around
Arts & Entertainment Photos: These Animals Are Totally In Love Today Happy DOMA-is-unconstitutional-and-gay-marriage-is-legal-in-California-again day! Because you're probably overloaded with photos of exuberant couples smooching their faces off in front of the Supreme Court or city hall or rainbow flags everywhere, here are some animals
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo's Baby Giraffe Named After That Girl You Used To Know In College The San Francisco Zoo's adorable one-month-old giraffe calf finally got a name this week. Meet: Erin. Erin the giraffe. And she's gotten a bit taller since we first met her last month, she's
