SF News Here's A Picture Of The Deplorable (Alleged) Dog-Throwing Tenderloin Mugger Pardon us if we hound this guy (pun certainly intended) until the local cops track him down, but the man you see pictured here is one Laurice Barrett — the very same man captured
SF News Have You Seen This Guy? SFPD Releases Video Of Dog-Throwing Tenderloin Mugger As part of their new crowdsourced crime solving efforts, SFPD has tracked down surveillance footage of the mugger wanted for stealing a woman's wallet and throwing her 18-pound Pekingese pup named Roxie into
SF News Dog-Throwing Tenderloin Mugger Wanted By SFPD A deplorable dog-hating mugger is still on the loose after he robbed a woman in her car on Leavenworth Street last Friday evening. According to Bay City News, the victim had done the
SF News Meanwhile, In The Suburbs... Someone Is Bowhunting Pet Peacocks Ken and Judy Reed of Vacaville were stunned this week when they discovered someone had shot one of their 40 pet peacocks and peahens with a bow and arrow. The skewered peahen has
SF News Redwood City Man Felt 'Threatened' By Toy Poodle, Beat It To Death With A Brick In Redwood City, a man accused of beating a toy poodle to death is claiming he acted in self defense when he smashed in a 12-pound dog's face with a brick. The suspect,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PETA Releases Statement Regarding Federal Ruling On Delicious, Succulent Foie Gras Charcuterie-haters PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a statement today regarding the federal ruling on California's ornamental foie-gras ban. In a written statement, PETA peta'd: "The greedy producers and gluttonous
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gaggle of Foie Gras Industry Insiders Gather to Discuss California's Liver Failure Chris Cosentino's Incanto in Noe Valley played host to something resembling a foie gras summit meeting on Tuesday. As EaterSF reports, a "who's who" of San Francisco chefs, representatives from local foie gras
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lafitte Hosts Pro-Foie Gras Dinner Next Week Oh, it's on, folks. Taking a stand against the pending 2012 ban on foie gras, Chef Russell Jackson will host a FU Foie Gras Dinner at Lafitte on Sunday, October 16. See, California
SF News Tragic Sea Lion News: King Neptune Succumbs to Gunshot Wounds King Neptune, the young adult sea lion we checked in with yesterday, was put down by vets at the Marina Mammal Center last night. The poor fella was suffering from a bad case
SF News Another Gentle, Majestic Sea Lion Checks in to the Marine Mammal Center with Gunshot Wounds King Neptune, seen here recovering from gunshot wounds at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, is the most recent victim of human-on-pinniped violence in the Bay Area. Mr. Neptune was found last Wednesday
SF News Angry Gilroy Man With Violent Crime Record May Get Life in Prison For Killing Chihuahua A Gilroy man who already has four felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon under his belt may face a 25-years-to-life sentence in the death of his wife's six-week-old chihuahua puppy. Bud
SF News Three Teens Arrested For Concord School Chicken Choking Deaths Yesterday, we brought you the story of choking chicken murders at El Monte Elementary School in Concord, where a custodian discovered the bodies of two strangled chickens. Today, police arrested three teenagers in
SF News Doctors Prepare to Perform First Ever Reconstructive Surgery on Shot Sea Lion's Face Veterinarians at the Marine Mammal Center in Vallejo and a plastic surgeon who usually works on people are set to perform the first ever reconstructive surgery on a sea lion that was found
SF News UC Davis Students Arrested for Torturing Hamsters Disturbing news, folks. UC Davis police arrested 18-year-old Henry Nguyen of Oakland and 19-year-old Josue Melendez of Los Angeles on Wednesday on suspicion of abusing hamsters, filming said cruelty, and then posting the
SF News Scene from Today's Pro-Life Protest On Van Ness Why, here's a shot from this afternoon's PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) protest against McDonald's, over on the 600 block of Van Ness. Not nearly as erotic as we had
SF News See Semi-Nude "Chicks" Bathed In Blood On Van Ness at Noon Today Want to see slinky, kinda nude women bathing in a tank of blood-colored water on Van Ness at noon? Of course you do. According to , PETA campaigner Jena Hunt "organized a protest scheduled
SF News Up for Adoption: Cat Found Stuffed in Suitcase, Abandoned at SFO Named after the duffel bag in which he was abandoned, "Duffy" was discovered by residents in Burlingame near the Embassy Suites at SFO on April 5. Although he was left there for more
SF News Plumpjack Bans Foie Gras Just after Ross Mirkarimi's pro-life hummus breath suggested a citywide ban on foie gras - you know, in addition to the other one set to go in 2012 -- Gavin Newsom also kowtowed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ban Foie Gras in SF? Not learning the lesson Chicago had to after it attempted to / failed at banning (delicious) foie gras, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi told SFGate about a new legislative idea dimly blinking in his noggin. Ahem:
SF News How Will You Vote on Prop. 2? Yes On 2: Sponsored by the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, Prop 2 says it's c"ruel and inhumane to confine animals in cages so small they can’t turn around or
misc Grote Kunst Voor Kleine Mensen: Chocolade haas Speaking of animal cruelty, the third chocolate bunny murder almost brought us to tears. Of laughter, sorrow, or both we're still not sure. This film, above, is described as "an episode from the
misc Problems at the Oakland Animal Shelter With all the positive hubbub about San Francisco's Animal Care and Control officers and its Dog Court (oh, you bet your sweet bippy we're discussing this in "We Read the Weeklies" tomorrow), it's
Arts & Entertainment Bad Dogs, Bad Dogs, Whatcha Gonna Do? Awright! The Chronicle breaks the story that the next season of Animal Planet's Animal Cops will be filming in the great city by the Bay! The show, for those of you without Animal
