SF News SFFD Rescues Woman And Dog From Perilous Cliffside Perch A woman and her dog are safe today, thanks to San Francisco rescue crews that spared them both from a possibly fatal fall Monday. In a tweet posted Monday evening, the San Francisco
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 SF SPCA Bans Controversial 'Prong' Dog Collars From Campuses You've likely seen prong collars (like the one pictured above) on dogs in San Francisco — perhaps you've even used one yourself! (On a dog, jeez, what you do in private is your business.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Adorable Baby Baboon Frolics At Oakland Zoo Oakland Zoo added a new member to its baboon troop earlier this year with the birth of Zachary. According to the zoo's Facebook page, Zachary was born April 22 and brings the troop
SF News Sale Of $39M Home (With Doggy Spa, Aviary) Will Go To Pet Shelter When you meet the property at 7 Country Oak Lane, you're faced with a number of questions. First: Where, pray tell, are numbers 5 and 6 Country Oak Lane? This spot, in the
SF News SFPD Officers Rescue Dog Trapped In Hot Car Despite repeated entreaties from San Francisco Animal Care & Control, some pet guardians still choose to flout the city's laws against trapping dogs in hot cars. But one owner got the message Sunday,
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Walk A Dog It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
SF News Spate Of Baby Deer 'Kidnappings' Has Bay Area Wildlife Officials Worried The sight of a fawn is often enough to melt the coldest of hearts, and an apparently abandoned baby deer can drive the most fervent omnivore to consider vegetarianism. That appears to be
SF News Video: Baby Otters Frolic At Oakland Zoo For your daily dose of cute, look no further than the Oakland Zoo — which just this morning released new video of the six, six-week-old otter pups now in the zoo's care. Bay City
SF News SFPD Officers Protect Stranded Seal Until Help Arrives Stranded seal saved by @SFPDTaraval today; officers protected it from crows & off-leash dog til @TMMC arrived. #SFPD pic.twitter.com/3IRouQXvr2— San Francisco Police (@SFPD) April 27, 2016 Officers from the San
SF News Video: Woman 'Walking' Dog From Moving Car Sparks Animal Cruelty Probe In Stockton Video depicting a woman pulling her dog along with a rope while she drives a car has resulted in allegations of animal cruelty and an investigation by Stockton animal services. The cellphone video,
Arts & Entertainment A Lemur And A Rhino Made Some Art At SF Zoo, And You Can Purchase It There are some new artists in residence at the San Francisco Zoo, and their rare if not entirely intentional works of art are now for sale in a live auction that benefits the
SF News Bay Area Dog Rescue Org Needs Help After Stolen Van Crashes Into Shelter Oakland-based Rocket Dog Rescue has saved over 7,500 pets over its 13 years in operation, but now they need your help, after the driver of a stolen van crashed into their shelter.
Arts & Entertainment The SF Zoo's New Baby Giraffe Is Sweet Balm For Your Aching Heart Ugh, this world. Horrible! It is hard not to feel ground down sometimes. But when you need a lift, maybe take a look at the face of the SF Zoo's newest guest, this
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Goat Shows Disappointingly Plebeian Tastes In Coffee When you need a cup of coffee — like, really need it — you don't always have the time and energy to seek out the hippest new joint and wait in their long-ass line. Sometimes,
SF News San Francisco Coyotes Called Out For Tax Evasion, Poor Voting Record During City Hall Hearing Hey, remember that City Hall hearing called by Supervisor Norman Yee over San Francisco's recent fatal attacks of domestic dogs by coyotes? Well, it happened yesterday, and resulted in one of my favorite
Arts & Entertainment Janice The Rampaging Piglet Bringing Reign Of Terror To Reptile Rescue Janice, the 10-pound piglet who less than two weeks ago made the Mission District her bitch, will soon be trading city life for one in the country, San Francisco's Animal Care and Control
SF News Zebras Break Free From Circus For Brief Taste Of Freedom A couple of zebras, who were set to perform at O.co Coliseum over the weekend, managed to escape from UniverSoul Circus on Friday. The two presumably terrified creatures were spotted running north
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 Man Of The Cloth Helps Save Mission District From Rampaging Piglet Sure, San Francisco's Animal Care and Control's director called Tuesday "just another day at the office." But for the rest of us, it was the day a pig unleashed holy hell on the
Arts & Entertainment Terrifying Or Cute Octopus Discovered, Possibly New Species Breaking away from the Bay Area, let's talk about Hawaii, yes? Specifically: A ghostly, possibly new species of octopus was recently discovered near our fiftieth state, found around 2.5 miles deep in
SF News Tattooed Rescuer Places Oxygen Mask On Dog Saved From Oakland Fire FFs treated a dog found inside the mobile home fire on High st. last night. pic.twitter.com/GWrgpBFiMM— Oakland Firefighters (@OaklandFireLive) March 1, 2016 When a mobile home fire broke out in
Arts & Entertainment Watch Boston Dynamics Use Their War Dog To Terrorize A Helpless Schnauzer You've already watched that terrifying video from Google-owned Boston Dynamics, in which a robot is seemingly taunted by his heartless human creators/captors. (You've probably even seen the parodies, including this super sad
SF News Bald Eagle Finally Found After Going On Lam From Palo Alto Zoo Looking for a fun and free spring break activity? Watch Sequoia fly at 2:30pm at Byxbee @FriendsJMZ #sequoiatheeagle pic.twitter.com/KidwWOdLzt— Sequoia the Eagle (@PaloAlto_Eagle) April 6, 2015 A beloved
SF News Guilty-Feeling Thief Returns Dog Abducted From East Bay SPCA Hooray! Daisymae, the dog who was snatched Sunday from a volunteer as she walked outside the East Bay SPCA, has been returned! Y'all dog lovers remember this one: Two-year-old black and white pit
