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.
SF News You Could Be Allowed To Break The Windows Of Hot Cars With Dogs Inside Under Proposed CA Law Assembly Bill 797, a proposed amendment to Section 597.7 of the state Penal Code relating to trespass, would extend the privilege of smashing car windows, if necessary in order to rescue dogs
SF News Video: Bay Area Soldier Adopts Dog He Bonded With In Iraq CBS 5 brings us the touching tale of Ollie, a dog who was adopted by a US Army unit in Iraq as a puppy and became their beloved mascot. When former Army Specialist
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink There's Now A 'Restaurant-Quality' Meal Delivery Service For Dogs With news that Amazon Prime and five other new startups have recently gotten into the food delivery game, we honestly thought that the food-delivery market was saturated. Oh how wrong we were, as
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Adds Fun Dog Stencils To Duboce Park Local street artist fnnch (pronounced like the bird) has just committed one of his "random acts of art" in Duboce Park, adding fun dog stencils including the Jeff Koons tribute above to the
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,
SF News Adorable Bay Bridge Dog 'Ponch' Up For Adoption The extremely lovable, rascally Chihuahua named Ponch captured our hearts earlier this month after leading California Highway Patrol on a high-speed chase across the upper deck of the western span of the Bay
Arts & Entertainment These Pics Of Dogs In Giants Gear Are The Most Important Thing To Come From Baseball Season So Far The cuteness factor was outta here Friday night as dogs dressed in San Francisco Giants apparel rallied at SoMa StrEat Food Park for a Giants game viewing party. While the humans and dog
SF News Meet 'Ponch,' The Chihuahua Involved In Sunday's Bay Bridge Police Pursuit Ponch is doing well this morning @CHPSanFrancisco @ErikEstrada but he would love to see his family. #BayBridgeDog pic.twitter.com/t8rGQosHfK— SF Animal Care (@SFACC) April 4, 2016 The incredibly adorable Chihuahua mix
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
SF News Battle Over Dogs In Parks Heats Up As Supervisors Pass Resolution Opposing GGNRA Rules The anti-snowy plover crusade continued this week, as the Board of Supervisors yesterday passed a resolution opposing proposed National Park Service restrictions on dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The proposed
SF News Supervisors Not Happy About Proposed Restrictions On Dogs In Parks #SF supervisors rally w/dog owners before presenting resolution against dog restrictions at Ocean Beach & GGNRA land pic.twitter.com/vIXchNXCrO— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) March 1, 2016 It looks like Nancy
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 SFFD Rescues Adorable Dog From Fort Funston Cliff With Fort Funston in the news recently as one of the many parks to possibly restrict dogs under proposed new National Park Service rules, it is important to remember that the prime dog-walking
SF News Nancy Pelosi Weighs In On Dogs On Beaches Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, it would seem, has a (figurative) dog in this fight. The San Francisco Representative to Congress has weighed in on the public battle currently being waged between dog owners and
SF News Fort Funston, Ocean Beach To Partially Ban Dogs Under Proposed Rule Change Under a set of new rules proposed yesterday, large swaths of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area are set to become entirely dog-free — this includes not insubstantial sections of popular dog-walking spots Fort
SF News Someone Planted Thousands Of Tacks In An East Bay Dog Park East Bay dog owners are on alert this week, after thousands of thumbtacks were found scattered throughout a Hercules dog park. Police were called to Ohlone Dog Park on Saturday after park-goers reported
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
SF News East Bay SPCA Seeks Public Help After Daisymae The Dog Snatched From Volunteer The East Bay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is hoping the public will help them track down a dog named Daisymae, after she was stolen from a volunteer at their
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 Cops Swoop In To Arrest Bay Area Pug Tosser, Snatch Dog From Her Grasp Folks who were distressed by the news that Benny the tossed pug had been returned to his tosser might have reason to rejoice today, as police said Wednesday that they arrested his alleged
SF News [Update] Tossed Pug Found Safe, Tosser Gets Dog Back And Says She's Sorry Benny the dog,caught on cam being abused in Fairfield,was x-rayed.No serious injuries!https://t.co/vHPCqBApOu @FOX40 pic.twitter.com/GzdovUODcK— Ty Steele (@TySteeleNEWS) January 1, 2016 Many of us
SF News Coyote Attacks Another Small Dog In Stern Grove, Big Dog Saves It 'Like Rin Tin Tin' A Maltese-poodle mix was killed near Pine Lake in Stern Grove as its owners watched in horror back in September, and once again, a coyote pounced on a small dog in the park
