SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Animal Care Rescues Barn Owl Caught In Kite Line SF Animal Care & Control officers rescued an injured barn owl caught in a kite line near Baker Beach; Berkeley teens under 18 get to vote for school board this year; and Straus Family Creamery in Sonoma County gets a TikTok boost.
SF News Details Emerge About Couple Who Allegedly Fled the Scene After Their Dog Bit a 3-Year-Old Boy In SF We have some more details about the case of a Cow Hollow dog-biting incident last month that left a little boy injured and now terrified of dogs, and the couple who left the scene without providing any of their information.
SF News SF Animal Care & Control Now Investigating Reports of Dog Mistreatment and Neglect at Wag Hotel The Mission District location of Wag Hotels received a visit last week from Animal Care & Control, which followed a Chronicle investigative report into over a half dozen cases of dogs allegedly being neglected or injured while in the hotel chain's care.
SF News Scammers Pretending to Be SF Animal Control Are Calling Demanding Money For Lost Pets A phone scam has been targeting the owners of lost pets in San Francisco who post about them on social media, and SF Animal Care & Control wants everyone to be aware of it.
SF News Coyote That Charged Toddlers In Golden Gate Park Was Euthanized An aggressive coyote that several mothers reported had gotten too close for comfort with their small children in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, has been euthanized.
Arts & Entertainment SF Animal Care & Control Now Featured on A&E's 'Live Rescue' Series San Francisco Animal Care and Control recently announced that the animal shelter has joined A&E’s original series “Live Rescue,” a show about emergency calls — so you can now tune in to see local rescues of wayward raccoons and coyotes.
SF News Who Left Their Cat On The Bay Bridge? Animal Care & Control Now Has Him A cat on a leash was found perched on a ledge, hundreds of feet in the air, along the First Street onramp to the Bay Bridge Tuesday afternoon during rush hour.
Arts & Entertainment SF Animal Care's 'Officer Edith': 'There's Always A Skunk At the Bottom of a Hole' One of the darlings of the local government Twitterati, the voice behind the @OfficerEdith Twitter handle that tweets cute pictures of animals rescued by Animal Care & Control, is actually named Lt. Eleanor Sadler.
SF News Raccoon Invasion Looms As Pesky Critters Begin To Forage Pretty much all Bay Area critter populations have swollen with this year’s wetter and warmer weather, and we’re seeing flocks of wild parrots, whales, and rats of unusual sizes. But that
SF News Turkey Trotting Through SF Finally Captured, Poses For Hideous Mugshot A seriously unfortunate looking prehistoric bird seen wandering San Francisco streets was captured after sightings in the Castro and Alamo Square areas. Such fowl — wild turkeys — are rarely seen in the city, save
Arts & Entertainment SF Animal Care & Control Rescues 40 Baby Bunnies Who Were Advertised For Sale 'As Meat Or Pets' On Craigslist In a release that went out Friday, San Francisco Animal Care & Control (SFACC) announced that they had just rescued 40 rabbits, "mainly underage kits," and they had done so via an individual
SF News Pets Of Homeless People Provide Huge Benefits, But Often Keep Them On The Streets "Rick is the only one who has ever really loved me," a man named Sam told me as he sat on a sidewalk at the end of Judah Street in the Outer Sunset.
SF News Fatal Attacks Spur City Hall Meeting On SF's Coyote Response Plan Are coyote attacks on the rise in San Francisco? While Animal Care and Control has yet to confirm that assertion, District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee says they're spiking, and he wants city agencies
Arts & Entertainment Reporting Live From The Puppy Bowl Cafe, Just Open In SF People, you would not believe the sheer level of joy and delight being unleashed down at the Puppy Bowl Cafe, just outside Gott's Roadside at SF's Ferry Building on Thursday afternoon. The puppies
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Live 'Puppy Bowl Cafe' Arrives In SF Next Week! In some (house) breaking news that might be the first thing you’ll like about having the Super Bowl in San Francisco, the Puppy Bowl is bringing a live version of the adorable
SF News Wild Coyotes Now Roaming Haight, Panhandle Coyotes are taking over San Francisco, you guys. Though coyote sightings in the city are not new, they seem to be getting a lot more common this past year, suggesting that our local
SF News SFPD: Walk Around With An Unlicensed Dog, Police Can Stop And Search You According to San Francisco's Friends Of Animal Care And Control "there are an estimated 120,000 dogs in San Francisco," but "only about 20,000 of them" bear a legally-required SF dog license.
SF News More On The 'Small Herd' Of Guinea Pigs Living In Dolores Park Yesterday we briefly noted the discovery of some guinea pigs that were abandoned in Dolores Park, and are now making a go of it on their own, in the urban wild. Now we
SF News San Francisco's New Head Dogcatcher Was A Journalism Major Nearly seven months after the contentious dismissal of the then-head of San Francisco's Animal Care And Control department, they've found a new leader: the co-founder of a local pet daysitting business with a
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 The Bay Area Is Still A Mess With Stray Chihuahuas The past few years around Christmas and Valentine's Day we've heard about Chihuahua airlifts happening that take the West Coast's unwanted bumper crop of the little dogs in shelters to places on the
SF News San Francisco's Animal Cops Seek Owners Of Badly Neglected Dogs Animal Control officers with San Francisco's Animal Care and Control are searching for the guardians of eight dogs (photos above, video below) who were abandoned in an Outer Mission home Wednesday. According to
Arts & Entertainment Now's The Time To (Inexpensively) Rescue A Dog From The ACC If you've been thinking about adding a dog to your family, but haven't gotten around to it yet, allow San Francisco's Animal Care and Control to dangle a treat in front of your
Arts & Entertainment Escaped Goats Run Wild Through SF Streets A herd of about 8 goats are loose in BV. Animal Care and Control are trying to control herd. Goats loose by Paul Av. pic.twitter.com/FvW67H7eja— Bayview, S.F. (@bayviewheight) June
SF News How Much Of A Threat Are San Francisco's Coyotes? Is San Francisco's coyote population growing? While no city agency officially tracks their numbers, this spring the Chron's nature writer Tom Stienstra said that he estimates that as many as 100 coyotes are
