Arts & Entertainment Beware Of PETA Members Dressed As Giant Condoms Today In lieu of exploiting microwave-based infanticide or urging the (vile) use of human breast milk in Chubby Hubby, PETA aims for something a little less gross today. At noon, four PETA members dressed
Arts & Entertainment Beasts Feast At SF Zoo Would you look at this little rapscallion? Come now. It's simply too much. We love it. This ring-tailed lemur enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast at the San Francisco Zoo today as part of the
Arts & Entertainment Live Reindeer Adorn Roof At California Academy of Sciences Reindeer stand guard as Santa Claus robs the California Academy of Sciences. Ha! No, not really. Actually: A pair of live reindeer have taken residence at the CAS's east garden as part of
Arts & Entertainment Puppies, Kittens Back In Macy's Holiday Windows, Watch Live Macy's and SF SPCA unveiled their 25th annual holiday window display on Friday evening, featuring the traditional daily rotation of adorable and adoptable kittens and puppies. This year, they're streaming the furry frolickers
Arts & Entertainment Locally-Sourced Calendar Features Adorable Pooches, SOMA Landmarks Behold, the city's first hyperlocal pet-centric paper-based calendar. Created by the bloggers behind the sprawling, formerly industrial neighborhood blog LiveSOMA and benefiting a local charity, the calendar features 12 months of bridges, puppies,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 2,500 Dumped Chickens Cause I-80 Backup In Vacaville You're free. YOU'RE FREE! Run for your lives, little birds. You shouldn't have to be packed into crates (as pictured here) in order to become a succulent meal. You see, an estimated 2,
SF News Wayward Sea Lion Wanders Across Highway 101 In the latest bit of plucky pinniped news: a sea lion flopped its way across Highway 101 early Saturday morning. After finding herself far from home and lying in a ditch on the
SF News Human-Animal Sex No Longer Legal in Florida Tonight at the stroke of midnight, Florida State Senator Nan Rich's anti-bestiality bill goes in to effect in that dangling, backwards state. It took Senator Rich three attempts to get the bill passed
Arts & Entertainment Martinez Residents Distraught Over Local Beaver "Everyone's saying we hate beavers, but this is not about liking beavers or not liking beavers," said public works director Dave Scola, a third-generation Martinez native who ordered the beaver's removal. — From the
SF News Lost Sheep Recovered "Sheriff's investigators placed [suspected sheep thief Luis Ortiz] Orea under surveillance and determined some of the sheep stolen from the Watmaugh Road ranch were taken to a large piece of property in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Group Wants Cigarette-Like Warning Labels On Foie Gras Following on the heels of yesterday's report that, as soon as the ban goes into effect, foie gras will turn into an underground treat for gastronomes—all of this fattened liver talk has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras To Go Underground In CA? When the state's foie gras ban goes into effect in July of 2012, California restaurants will have to pull the luxurious (yet allegedly cruel) item from their menus. Although producers claim it doesn't
Arts & Entertainment Newborn Giraffe Meets Brandon Belt [Video] Today in adorable things and baseball: rookie giraffe Brandon Belt, of the Vallejo Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, made friends with his namesake - Brandon Belt, rookie infielder for the San Francisco Giants. The
SF News Pregnant Pacifica Woman Mauled to Death by Family Dog At some point Thursday morning, pregnant 32-year-old Darla Norpa of Pacifica was mauled to death by her 2-year-old pit bull. Her husband, Greg, returned home around noon to discover his wife "laying in
SF News Dead Goat, Other Dead Animals Found On Capp Street [Warning: Graphic Image] A deceased and bloody goat's corpse was found on Capp Street today. Mission Mission picked up on the story today. SFist talked to San Francisco Animal Care and Control who revealed that, in
SF News Who Poisoned Sutro Heights Park? Over the weekend, neighborhood blog RichmondSF received word from patrons and dog owners out enjoying Sutro Heights park that someone had spread rat poison around the grass in the park putting kids, pets
SF News Bay Area Apartment to Require Dog Poo DNA Samples? A Redwood City apartment complex stands to be the first in the Bay Area to track lazy dog owners who don't pick up after their pets using a DNA database. A database of
SF News Tenny the Bison Put to Sleep The bison family in Golden Gate Park just got a little bit smaller yesterday. (Sidenote: you know there are bison in Golden Gate Park, right?) Tenny, one of five bison at the paddock,
SF News Falcon Shooter Sought by Game Wardens State game wardens are offering $1,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the person(s) who shot and injured two peregrine falcons in Oakland. Both protected under the California endangered
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Break Dancing Gorilla Zola delights in water. Set to music, he's dancing up a storm. According to the Calgary Zoo's YouTube page: "Zola, nine-years old, is one of eight Western lowland gorillas currently living at the
Arts & Entertainment Great Horn Owl Spotted in Glen Park Canyon A great horn owl was spotted recently in the Glen Park Canyon (where?) by local park frequenter Steven Uchida. The retired U.S. Postal worker snapped these photographs of the owl perched on
Arts & Entertainment Friday: Take Fido, Fifi, to Work Day Lucky for some of you, every day is Take Your Dog to Work Day (along with "Work in Sweats Day"), but for those who work in less pet-friendly environs, this Friday is the
SF News As the Lagoon Turns: Baby Martha Disappears SFist reported on Friday that the Palace of Fine Arts' "orphaned, injured and recently rehabbed" swan, Bella, was rejected and treated as an intruder by her brother, Baby Blue, and sister-in-law, Blanche, who
SF News San Francisco to Ban Goldfish? R&B duo Matier & Ross have word that the San Francisco Animal Control Commission suggests a citywide ban on goldfish sales. While buying pets from puppy and kittens mills are a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Enlightened Mark Zuckerberg Eating Only What He Kills Bemoan the exalted Facebook leader all you want, plebeians, but we dig Mark Zuckerberg's newfound gastronomic sensibility. In a recent Forbes article, Zuckerberg explains how he now only eats what he kills, meat-wise.
