SF News SF Animal Care & Control Now Investigating Reports of Dog Mistreatment and Neglect at Wag Hotel The Mission District location of Wag Hotels received a visit last week from Animal Care & Control, which followed a Chronicle investigative report into over a half dozen cases of dogs allegedly being neglected or injured while in the hotel chain's care.
SF News Fire at Martinez Home Injures One Person, Displaces 70 Dogs and Cats In Apparent Pet-Hoarding Situation A fire at a suburban residence in Martinez on Tuesday revealed an apparent pet hoard that included around 70 dogs and cats, all of which suddenly need new homes.
SF News CDC Is Now Telling People To Socially Distance Their Pets There is enough evidence that dogs and cats can get the coronavirus, and though it's not clear if they can spread it to people, the CDC is suggesting that they can at least potentially spread it to other pets in dog parks, etc.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Three-Legged Dogs Take Over Duboce Park For ‘Tri-Pawed Dog Picnic’ Amputee dogs had their day at Sunday’s “Tri-Pawed Dog Picnic,” an annual meetup that welcomed throngs of three-legged pups — along with any other dogs with cones, one eye, or other disability.
SF News Amid Wildfire Tragedy, Tales Of Animal Resilience And Rescue Abound After more than a week the the Northern California wildfires are finally beginning to approach containment. As officials continue to search for the missing and survivors return to what's left of their homes,
SF News Hero Dog Who Stuck With Rescue Goats During Wildfire Reunited With Family As we continue to hear stories of the dead and as some Northern Californian residents are slowly making their way back to where their homes once stood, some families are finding small pockets
SF News Meet Martha, The World's Ugliest Dog The Sonoma-Marin Fair held it's now nationally famous, 29th Annual Ugliest Dog Contest on Friday and a winner has been crowned. Behold Martha, a 125-pound Neapolitan Mastiff who beat out 13 other dogs
SF News Have You Seen Pig-Pig? 100-lb Pig Stolen From San Jose Backyard Where, oh where has Pig-Pig gone? KRON 4 (naturally) has the story of the mysterious disappearance of Pig-Pig, a 3-year-old 100-pound mini pot-bellied pig belonging to San Jose residents Mark and Jeannie Ackerman.
Arts & Entertainment Adorable Photos From Corgi Con, Which Took Place On Ocean Beach Saturday She might have been wrong about Diana but HRH Queen Elizabeth II was on the money when it comes to the sheer perfection of corgis. Nor Cal Corgi Con, the bi-annual celebration of
SF News World's Bravest Kitten Lives In Oakland, Rides CHP Patrol Cars Brace yourselves, cat people. A kitten was discovered clinging to the underside of a California Highway Patrol car as officers responded to the scene of an accident on I-880 Sunday morning. The officers
SF News BooBoo, NorCal Cat Who Disappeared 4 Years Ago, Found Healthy, Happy In Canada Late Friday night, Ashley Aleman of Watsonville, California got a call she wasn't expecting: The Guelph Humane Society of Ontario, Canada rang her up to say that her cat, BooBoo, was safe at
Arts & Entertainment Dog Day Afternoon: Canines Take Over The Roxie For Dog Film Festival “I hope everybody peed and pooped outside,” Dog Film Festival founder Tracie Hotchner announced humorously but earnestly, kicking off a Sunday afternoon show featuring this year's finest short films from the canine canon.
SF News Veterinarians See Uptick In Deadly Dog Infection As Bacteria May Spread In Wet Weather An increased number of cases of a dangerous and potentially deadly infection in dogs has VCA San Francisco Veterinary Specialists telling NBC Bay Area that dog owners should be particularly vigilant as wet
Arts & Entertainment 'Max' And 'Bella' Top List Of San Francisco Dog Names I thought I was so hilarious and clever for naming my dog "The Governor." A one-eyed, skittish Italian Greyhound with only a few teeth and a bad case of alopecia, it seemed funny
SF News Extremely Marin Woman Searches For Lost Dog With Pet Detectives, Psychics, And $10K Reward Six-year-old French bulldog Sassy Pants (actual name), who was lost in Novato, is alive and well according two animal psychics hired by pet owner Kelly Kinnard of Larkspur. Banking on their intuition, the
SF News Tech Company Defaces Public Property In Advertising Blitz @WhistleLabs https://t.co/inzuwhSnZA Please refrain from putting illegal posts on public property. pic.twitter.com/PwQ87uEuOc. ^JM— SF311 (@SF311) July 24, 2016 Defacing San Francisco public property to promote your latest
Arts & Entertainment Dogs Who Can Surf Being Called To Audition This Week In Oakland For Rose Parade Float Are you a dog owner who's trained your dog to surf? Because if you want some national exposure for your talented surfing pooch, you may be able to achieve that goal this week
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Sharks Player Adopts 'Lucky' Stray Cat Who Wandered Onto Rink The latest photo of Jo PAW-velski. Thanks @hssv for taking care of our kitty #SJSharks #SmashNash #sharksblackcat pic.twitter.com/gjBLiUIUuR— Jim Sparaco (@JimSparaco) May 8, 2016 While they didn't walk away with
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 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 Coyote Kills Cat On Owner's Back Doorstep In Park Merced We've heard of a number of coyote attacks on small dogs around the Stern Grove area, and nearby in the Park Merced apartment complex, a coyote just killed a cat that belonged to
Arts & Entertainment Ponch, The Canine Bay Bridge Escape Artist, To Be Adopted Today Thanks to loads of publicity and one daring dash across the Bay Bridge toward the city he now calls home, Ponch the Chihuahua has had plenty of interest from potential adoptive parents at
SF News Six Months Later, Valley Fire Victim Reunited With Lost Cat Last September's Valley Fire devastated the community of Middletown, California and destroyed over 1200 homes, becoming the third most destructive wildfire in state history. It also killed four people and an unknown number
Arts & Entertainment Thumb-Sized Monkeys New Status Symbol Pets For Year Of The Monkey? Our colleagues at Shanghaiist just posted about this adorable but slightly alarming trend among elites in China of buying tiny pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest monkeys, to keep as pets in honor of
SF News Coyotes, Possibly High On Magic Mushrooms, Attacking Cars Near Stinson Beach The sleepy beach town of Bolinas has something lively to talk about this week, as reports emerge that a coyote (or coyotes) has been attacking cars along Highway 1 in a manner so
