SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 15 Cats Abandoned Outside East Bay Hospital A pedestrian was killed crossing the 101 freeway near SFO; 15 cats and kittens were dumped outside Kaiser's San Leandro hospital; and a downtown SF post office might get named after Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Someone Stole a Van Full of Stray Cats In Napa, Van Full of Cats Still at Large A Napa animal rescue, shelter, and adoption organization had its van stolen this weekend, but more alarmingly, there were 16 rescue cats in the van when the cat burglar struck.
Bay Area Sports Feral Cats Overrun Oakland Coliseum, Authorities Decide to Just Let Them Have Their Run of the Place A feral kitty committee of 30-40 feral cats is expanding and “having a field day on the A’s turf,” and stadium authorities have decided to simply cede the place to them, but will attempt to have the cats spayed and neutered.
SF News San Francisco SPCA Needs More Foster Families To Look After Cats and Dogs Ever since San Francisco enacted its shelter-in-place order, the SF SPCA Pet Adoption Center has effectively remained closed with no adoptable animals on site. Though many of the shelter’s cats and dogs have since been taken in by foster families, more temporary homes are needed.
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Amazing Acro-Cats Return To Fort Mason In May The Georgia-based troupe of (sort of) circus-trained house cats known as The Amazing Acro-Cats are coming back to San Francisco five years after their 2014 debut here. And they do tricks! Like, on command! Sometimes!
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 SF Couple Accused Of Pepper-Spraying Apartment-Dweller To Steal Their Cat Given the vast number of cats available for adoption in San Francisco, who on earth would you 1) go all the way to San Bruno then 2) pepper-spray someone to steal a cat?
SF News Fleeing Hurricane Irma, 152 Shelter Pets Seek Bay Area Homes A jet packed with adoptable cats and dogs landed in the Bay Area Thursday, all refugees from Florida shelters emptied as preparation for Hurricane Irma. It's all thanks to the Walnut Creek-based Animal
Arts & Entertainment Stray Kitten Rescued From Middle Of Golden Gate Bridge Marin-based CHP officers rescued a small orange cat on Saturday who somehow managed to get inside the movable median barrier near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. They relayed the tale
Arts & Entertainment Video: Adorable Bonded Cat And Bunny Seek New Home, Together Tigger the cat and Magic the rabbit are best friends, you guys. And now the Marin Humane Society is looking for someone to take them both in, because they can't be separated. CBS
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 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
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Watch The Amazing Acro-Cats Do Tricks, Play Music Have you ever wanted to see talented cats perform acrobatic stunts? Of course you have. How about rock-star cats jamming out some serious tunes? Double of course you have. Well guess what, dear
Arts & Entertainment Watch A Stray Cat Slip And Slide On The Ice Before Sharks Game In San Jose You know we have a local hockey team, right? Yes, the San Jose Sharks, and evidently a stray black cat snuck his way into their arena, the SAP Center, and made his way
SF News Lucasfilm Lawsuit Forces Name Change for 'Lightsaber Battles' There will be no more "Lightsaber Battles" in San Francisco or anywhere else for that matter, and no, not because the last time the unpermitted event came to San Fransisco in December it
SF News Brace Yourself: Three-Day Cat Film Festival Is Coming To SF San Francisco likes cats, possibly even more than the internet does. This much we know. Now the good citizens of Baghdad by the Bay have a chance to publicly celebrate that love with
SF News Three Kittens From Hayes Valley's KitTea Cafe Diagnosed With Fatal Disease Three cats from pleasant Hayes Valley hybrid teahouse and cat adoption center KitTea Cafe were diagnosed with an incurable viral disease that sometimes occurs in litters or cats in close proximity, as at
Arts & Entertainment Famed Cat Painting (From San Francisco) Sells For $826,000 A 19th Century painting of 42 cats, well known to art-loving cat lovers, has been sold at auction at Sotheby's to a new cat lover for $826,000. As the San Francisco Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cats vs. Christmas Trees Cats don't like Christmas trees. Or, rather, they really like to jump on them and knock them over, and play with tinsel, and lights. Anyway, this is funny. [h/t: Tastefully Offensive]
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 Uber Delivering Kitten Cuddles Once Again Today In a drive to encourage kitten adoption, and just generally to pimp their brand again, Uber is doing that kitten delivery thing again today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. They
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
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Creepy New App and Robotic Feeder For Crazy Cat Owners Are you the kind of person who worries obsessively whether you little tiger-striped tabby Muffinhead has had a change in appetite while you're at work? Would you love it if there was an
Arts & Entertainment Is Your Cat On This Crazy New Metadata Map? Further proof that cats do run the Internet, a new project has collected 1 million cat photos and placed them on a world map. Using metadata embedded in social media posts, the website
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Meet What May Be The World's Shortest Cat There are adorable cats and then there's this munchkin tortoiseshell cat, Pixel, which might be the shortest in the world at 5-inches-tall. In this video produced by Barcroft Media, watch Pixel playfully chase
