Arts & Entertainment You Might Be Able To Adopt This 'Two-Nosed' Dog On Monday This stray male border collie mix found by a rural California road is a pretty typical dog: He's a great snuggler, a total couch hog, and a bit of a mischief maker. And,
SF News San Francisco's Animal Cops Seek Owners Of Badly Neglected Dogs Animal Control officers with San Francisco's Animal Care and Control are searching for the guardians of eight dogs (photos above, video below) who were abandoned in an Outer Mission home Wednesday. According to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dachshund Plays Fetch, With Himself Please enjoy watching dachshund play with an iFetch, a device that apparently was made for smarter canines who would like an electronic hand to throw a ball for them all day long. You
Arts & Entertainment Now's The Time To (Inexpensively) Rescue A Dog From The ACC If you've been thinking about adding a dog to your family, but haven't gotten around to it yet, allow San Francisco's Animal Care and Control to dangle a treat in front of your
SF News California Says Yes To Dogs On Restaurant Patios Dog-lovers across the state won a victory, or something, this week when Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that permits dogs in outdoor seating areas at restaurants so long as the
Arts & Entertainment Video: All Hail Peanut, The World's Ugliest Dog He came to the 75th Sonoma-Marin Fair Friday night! He saw! And, oh boy, did Peanut, a shelter rescue dog of unknown heritage with deformed lips and eyelids, conquer. At Friday night's Drooling,
SF News Marin Man Nabbed For Squeezing Chihuahuas A San Rafael man remains in custody today after witnesses say he was violently squeezing and biting two small Chihuahuas. Jennifer Parker, who lives in the area of Merrydale Road in San Rafael,
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
SF News Owner Of Walking Service Leaves Eight Dogs In Van Outside Nordstrom After San Francisco Animal Care and Control was called to the pet-packed van of a San Francisco dog walking service parked for hours in the mid-day sun, you might think that the owners
SF News Etiquette Week: How To Be A Non-Despicable Dog Guardian "Having the time and money to care for an animal in the city is a real privilege, not some inalienable right," local writer Jackson West said when he was told that the topic
SF News Dog Stabbed To Death During Early Morning Mission Mugging Two suspects remain at large in the Mission after holding up a 20-year-old man and his dog at knifepoint early Friday morning. Mission Local reports the victim and its human companion were out
SF News Alleged Puppy Thief Nabbed After Victim's Craigslist Sting Operation Though there are literally thousands of adoptable dogs in California, that didn't stop one man from allegedly stealing two dogs from their home, then attempting to sell them Craigslist. 30-year-old San Leandro resident
SF News Rabid Skunks Menace Northern California Dogs When you think about rabid animals infecting dogs, you probably think of Old Yeller (bitten by a rabid wolf) or Cujo (bat bite). But now Northern California dog guardians are being warned of
Arts & Entertainment Animal Roundup: Dog's Helicopter Rescue, Terrifying Fish In SF Lake It's all about dogs and water creatures this week, as one dog finds weed, another dog is saved, and various aquatic creatures terrify us. Dickie the pot-sniffing dog finds $14,000 Dickie, a
Arts & Entertainment Animal Roundup: Hero Dog, Newt Sex, Giraffe Capers Tripod Shepherd Gets Some Wheels When Tre-Joe was found wandering the streets after a Livermore hit-and-run, things looked grim. He was "malnourished and scrawny," lost a leg, and his guardians (to this day)
SF News Warning: Poisonous Meatballs Return To Twin Peaks [Updated] Animal Care & Control spokesperson Deb Campbell confirms the return of the tainted meat, noting that "the meatballs were well-hidden in bushes and shrubbery, and the highest concentration were found in the vicinity
Arts & Entertainment Animal Roundup: Moraga Dog Shot, SF Dog Awarded, Puppies! Meet Your New Puppy On Saturday When Wonderdog volunteer Chelsey rescued beagle/lab mix Betty from a scheduled death in Modesto, she probably didn't expect Betty to give birth to eight puppies on
Arts & Entertainment Cute Canine Explosion At Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show Canine preciousness abounded at this weekend's annual Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show at Cow Palace. The only thing missing was Parker Posey hysterically searching for a bumble bee chew toy. Erik Wilson
SF News Dogs Make Terrible Stoners, Are Probably Mooching All Your Weed Stash As marijuana use continues to become more and more mainstream, the number of dogs who are accidentally getting high is also on the rise. And, contrary to what you thought in college, dogs
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Bundled Up Pup The way things ought to be : a chicken in every pot and a dog in every jacket. Photo by Erik Wilson.
Arts & Entertainment Your Dog Definitely Needs This Earthquake Preparedness Suit After every tiny temblor and Loma Prieta anniversary, San Franciscans (and their mothers on more stable ground) like to take a moment to double-check the batteries and space blankets in their earthquake kits.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Puppies Getting Howling Lessons So. Stupidly. Cute. Watch this compilation of puppies of various breeds first getting the hang of the howling thing, with occasional help from humans. [Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Arf Photo of cute pooch on Market Street, snapped by Troy Holden.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Cone For You, Pooch Photo of a man and his dog, snapped in the Western Addition by Lynn Friedman.
