SF News Pack Of Raccoons Swarm Richmond District Couple A Richmond District couple says they feel so menaced by area raccoons that they won't leave the house after 11 p.m. for fear of the masked beasts. And, sure enough, when their
Arts & Entertainment What The Heck Is This Piranha-Like Fish Doing In NorCal Waters? Look at that grin! That's the terrifying mouth of a pacu, an omnivorous South American freshwater fish that's a cousin to the infamous piranha. And like their relative, they're usually found only in
SF News Aftershocks Rattled The Bay Area For Hours Monday Morning That 4.0 magnitude earthquake rattled us out of bed at 6:49 this morning might have been the biggest bang of the day (we hope!), but that doesn't mean the Hayward Fault
Arts & Entertainment Fainting Goats: NorCal's Hot New Pet Jeez, Eve, my landlord won't even let me get a cat you say. Yeah, it's tough out there! But maybe your landlord will be won over if you show up with what one
SF News US Mint Cop Shoots Pit Bull Puppy Dog bites man. It's a tale as old as time. But in this telling, something different took place. The man was a cop at the US Mint, and as Hoodline and the Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment This Holiday Weekend, SFO Will Go To The Dogs According to AAA, this holiday weekend is set to have the highest rate of travel since 2010. But travelers passing through San Francisco International Airport might have a little less stress than folks
SF News Mastiff Attacks Infant In Panhandle-Area Home A Panhandle pup is in the doghouse this morning after it took a bite out of an infant Wednesday, but before you freak out and close the tab, don't worry: the baby should
SF News Richmond Cop Shoots Police Department Dog After Shocking Canine Attack Richmond police officers were stunned and perplexed Tuesday, after one of their K-9 units abruptly turned on a fellow, albeit human, officer. It was 6:50 a.m. Tuesday when the street-clothes-clad cop
Arts & Entertainment Video: East Bay SPCA's 'Uptown Funk' Parody Will Bowl You Over With Cuteness While the well-funded San Francisco SPCA gets a lot of press, the East Bay SPCA's good works aren't always as prominently displayed. With an "annual live release rate" ("the percentage of animals that
SF News Video: Gigantic Sperm Whale Washes Up In Pacifica If you smell a strange odor as you're headed through Pacifica, it might not be the cosy burg's usual funk: a dead whale, 49 feet in length, was discovered Tuesday morning on the
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 Amorous Horse Falls Into Bathtub And Can't Get Out Think about the dumbest, most embarrassing thing that you ever did while trying to attract the attention of a romantic/sexual partner. Whatever it was, it pales (I hope, for your sake) compared
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Animals Love Your Discarded Xmas Trees The animals of the Oakland Zoo were a little late in the holiday celebration but they frolicked among Christmas trees yesterday. Of course, these were the discarded trees you didn't want anymore. Otters,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Adoptable Animals In Union Square Macy's Confound With Cuteness Uuuugh you grumble as you try to make your way up Stockton Street. Look at these rubes clogging the sidewalk in front of Macy's. It's like they never saw a cat or a
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Cal Academy Welcomes Adorable, Fluffy Penguin Chicks It's been a rough week, hasn't it? So here are some baby penguins, both of whom hatched a little more than two weeks ago at the California Academy of Sciences. According to the
Arts & Entertainment Was It Ethical To Tell Koko The Gorilla That Robin Williams Died? As you might recall, after Robin Williams died in August of this year, the Woodside, California-based Gorilla Foundation announced that Koko, their famous gorilla, was in mourning, having met the actor several years
SF News Giant Snake Dumped In Pescadero Finds Home, Wasn't A Burmese Python After All After an SFist report about that giant snake — initially identified by the Peninsula Humane Society as a Burmese Python — that was discovered beneath a car in Pescadero, snake aficionados came calling. And, boy,
SF News Who Dumped A Gigantic Snake In Pescadero? Update: As many commenters have noted, the snake was not a Burmese Python, as was stated by the Peninsula Humane Society, it was actually a boa constrictor. Here's our follow-up. Days after a
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Hundreds of Goats on Russian Hill? Reader Kate Kelly sent us this photo of a herd of goats that appears to have brought right into the heart of the city, to the north slope of Russian Hill, to clear
Arts & Entertainment Potrero Hill Marmot's Reign Of Adorable Terror Ends Potrero Hill marmot, we hardly know you! Just days after residents of a home near 25th and Rhode Island Streets called authorities to evict the critter, it's headed back to its home in
SF News Potrero Hill's Most Wanted: Authorities Seeking Wild Marmot A year ago this week, a wild marmot led authorities on a wild chase across Bernal Heights and into Noe Valley. And now we have another one, this time in Potrero Hill? This
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
SF News Oh COME ON Puppy, Why Is Your Head Stuck In That Tire? The life of an adorable puppy is fraught with peril. The Internet exploits your likeness for saccharine iPhone wallpaper at every turn. Whenever you try to eat your own vomit, everybody freaks out
Arts & Entertainment Meet This Year's Candidates For World's Ugliest Dog Though the 75th Sonoma-Marin Fair kicked off yesterday in Petaluma, California, the main event isn't until tomorrow night: "The Drooling, Needs Schooling, Gonna Win - No Fooling World’s Ugliest Dog Contest." The
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Trying To Get Adorable, Rare Blue-Eyed Lemurs To Mate Meet Dern. She's a rare blue-eyed lemur who recently arrived at the Oakland Zoo from Waco, Texas, and she joins Oakland's other blue-eyed lemur resident, Anthony. The zoo is hoping the two are
