Dogs

Get Your Pooches and Smooches at the Whole Enchihuahua Dog Show

Attention all pups and mutts: Get read to strut your stuff. This year's Whole Enchihuahua costume and awareness event is set to be fiercer and cuter than ever, as the Bay Area's most adorable pooches and their humans will meet in Dolores Park this Saturday for three hours of entertainment, wet kiss ... More >>

Dessert First: Two Sweet New Cafes Reinvent the Patisserie

Chocolate Lab: An Elegant Extension of Recchiuti Brand

Man Investigated for Allegedly Smacking Around His Adorable Pup

A San Francisco man was separated from his dog after he allegedly beat the pup -- for no apparent reason -- in public view in the Upper Haight.According to police, the witnesses were driving to Whole Foods in the Haight when they heard a dog "yelping in distress." The driver spotted the man on the s ... More >>

Little Nib Offers a Taste of Recchiuti Projects

After almost a year of pop-up events and sporadic hours, Recchiuti's second confection shop Little Nib has settled into a full-time schedule (Tue-Sat 12-7 p.m., Sun 12-5 p.m.). You'll still have to hit up the original location inside the Ferry Building to purchase bon bons and other offerings by the ... More >>

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Antonio Palomarez, Morgan Hill Man, Accused of Exercising His Pit Bull to Death

Here's an example of an unqualified dog walker. Police arrested 36-year-old Antonio Palomarez, a Morgan Hill resident, on Friday on suspicion of animal cruelty after he allegedly exercised two dogs to the point of heat exhaustion, killing one. According to press reports, Santa Clara County officers ... More >>

Pit Bull Shot Dead in Hunters Point

Well, this isn't your typical Bayview-Hunters Point slaying. Police are looking for the animal-hater who shot and killed a 1-year-old pit bull for no apparent reason on Friday evening. According to CBS News, the cops were called to the 200 block of West Point Road at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday on rep ... More >>

Kim Ferguson, Owner of Slain Poodle, Wants Canine Assailant Put Down

​Angst over San Francisco's poorly enforced dog-leash laws was revived last week when a poodle was allegedly killed by an out-of-control mastiff in Huntington Park. Police continue to search for the owner of the dog that was running off-leash when it attacked and killed Dijon (pictured at right).N ... More >>

Really Mean Woman Tosses Pup Out Third-Story Window

​Two things you should never throw out your window: Babies and animals.But alas, a Tiburon woman embraced her cruel side when she allegedly tossed an adorable Jack Russell terrier out her third-story window in the Mission District, police say. Police told reporters that a witness saw Danielle Walk ... More >>

Five Things to Do in 2012 That Aren't
Radical Weight-Loss Surgery

An acquaintance traveled to Los Angeles recently and saw the ubiquitous 1-800-GET-THIN billboards. "It was like, 'Welcome to LA ... You're fat!'" said Jennifer Yendes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took note of the notorious billboards in early December. Regulators officially told marketing ... More >>

Thanksgiving Galore, PETA's Holiday Antics, and Pit Bulls & Sexy Men Calendars For All!

​• Chako, a pit bull rescue and education group, has put together an amazing calendar of sexy, sexy naked men and adorable, adorable pit bulls. Gift them to everyone this holiday season, especially your ignorant friends and relatives who say stupid things about pit bulls because they know nothin ... More >>

Busted: Puppy Thieves Caught on Video (Photos)

Earlier today, we gave readers a happy ending to the story of a adorable pit bull puppy that was brazenly snatched from the Mission District animal shelter just hours before he was scheduled to be adopted. Fortunately, a woman, who says she bought the dog outside a Safeway for $200, returned the pup ... More >>

"J. Edgar": Rich Script, Masterful Acting Weave Dense Historical Tale

Pet Pride Day Is Coming. Straight Animals Welcome, Too!

Don't read too much into the farm attire motif​ If you look up "gay" in the dictionary, you'll find the following: 1 a : happily excited : merry b : keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits2 a : bright, lively b : brilliant in color That being said, when your wife asks you " ... More >>

Lemondrop: A Cocktail No Longer

Board of Supervisors: What Kind of Dog Would They Be?

This took us literally all afternoon to make.​Earlier this week, city supervisors voted 10 to 1 to oppose the Golden Gate National Recreational Area's proposal to severely restrict dog owners from walking their pups off-leash in certain parts of San Francisco, namely Fort Funston and Ocean Beach. ... More >>

Berkeley Cop Kills Man's Pup

Rock ​A Berkeley man is heartbroken after police shot and killed his one-year-old pit bull, Rock -- also called Big Baby -- Saturday morning. Shay Ben Yishay told SF Weekly this morning that he and some friends shot about 20 rounds from air pistols in his backyard before going back to work inside ... More >>

Scott Wiener Takes Up Cause of Anti-Leash Activists

And so it begins​One of the more puzzling aspects of San Francisco politics is the bizarre level of conflict that arises with any discussion of dogs. The prolonged internecine conflict between those who wish to run their dogs free and advocates of more restrictive leash laws has periodically convu ... More >>

Standing Up for Bullies, Taking the Rest of the Beef Out of 'Taco Meat'

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Uh, did you know that if you live in S.F., you can get a free spay or neuter at the SFSPCA for your dog or cat during the month of February? TRUE FACT. So if any of you are running around with companion animals ... More >>

San Francisco Is Populated with Labradors Looking for a Good Swim Hole

Not the leash today, please​Here is another reason San Francisco shouldn't restrict dogs from roaming on beaches and open space off leash: We love our Labradors and they love to swim and run. More people in San Francisco own Labrador Retrievers than any other breed, according to the American Kenne ... More >>

Drunk Man Keys into Neighbor's Apartment Thinking He Was Home

Your Neighbor ​After a night of heavy boozing, a San Francisco man forgot where he lived and keyed into his neighbor's apartment, believing it was his own house. At 10:45 p.m., a woman woke up, hearing a strange commotion in her apartment, located on the 700 block of Haight Street. She opene ... More >>

Spurned Conversationalist Hurls Coffee on Dog-Walker

Coffee talk of a different sort...​Over the wet weekend, a hot Cup of Joe down the pants might have been downright welcome. But late last week a man placed a call to the San Francisco Police Department about a decidedly uninvited java-dousing.It all started in Bernal Heights Park, where the caffei ... More >>

In San Francisco's Public Sex Mecca, Dogs Left Out of the Action

​A person wishing to have public sex in San Francisco can find significant swaths of the city all but reserved for this activity. Buena Vista Park; the trees between South Fork Drive and JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park; the woods where El Camino del Mar becomes Lands End Trail; the beaches West of L ... More >>

Do Pets, Terrified By Fleet Week, Enrich Carpet Cleaners?

Yep, blame that one on the Blue Angels​The spectacle of a jet screeching over one's domicile can be terrifying. And human beings, ostensibly, can rationalize, "oh, it's a jet." Your dogs and cats cannot. Therefore, they go on the carpet. So, does Fleet Week lead to a bonanza for San Francisco carp ... More >>

Flea Spray Kills Pets, Suit Alleges

Please don't kill me​Pet owners allege that Bio Spot and Spot On tick and flea repellent sent their cats and dogs into seizures -- and,in some cases, killed them -- in a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco. In some instances, the owners euthanized their pets after they suf ... More >>

Never Mind Those Pit Bull Maulings: 'Bun Bun,' 'Piglet' Need Good Homes

Leave Pit Bulls Alone!!!!!​Last week, a herd of pit bulls mauled a 2-year-old boy to death in Concord, and  an Oakland dog bit a girl's face over the weekend. They killed a 12-year-old boy in the Richmond District back in 2005, prompting a city law mandating all pits be spayed or neutered. Th ... More >>

Pets Still Can Be Sold at Pet Stores... For Now

​In a city where plastic bags are semi-illegal, is a ban on selling cats, dogs and other mammals at pet stores so outrageous? Well, maybe, which is why the city's Animal Commission put off a final decision on just such a ban on Thursday night (Bay City News, via SF Appeal).

Alleged Dog-Killer's Legal Path May Become Clear This Week

Joseph Byrnes​Myriad delays and developments often make it seem as if the course of justice is measured in dog years. That's certainly been the case for Joseph Byrnes, a San Francisco musician last year charged with hacking his dog to death in a Bernal Heights Catholic church. Byrnes will be back ... More >>

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SF Weekly Letters

How Much for That Kitty in the Window?

Beach Beer Babylon at the Riptide tonight

Here, Mike! Sit! Good Boy!

Mike White's low-key directorial debut makes nice while slyly nipping at suburban America

Saving Corbett Slope

Zoom Lens

A roundup of the best screen gems at this year's Latinbeat Film Festival

Radio Radio

Contemplating the airwaves, the NBA, and what it means to be Welsh at Dylan's

Bouncer

Bringing your dog to a bar can be fun, but you never know who's going to wander up in search of heavy petting

Totally 'Weard

Get the big picture

A Graceful Exit

When to leave a dinner party, and how to tell your neighbors they're jerks

Queer Eye for the Canine

"We've mastered making people more beautiful, why not improve upon the rest of the world?"

Portrait of a Dog Lady

She loves hounds passionately enough to kill them

Diversity in the South

A wide-ranging film festival

Best Place to Score Free Treats for Your Pooch

Golden Gate Bridge Toll Booth

Seconds, Anyone?

Talkin' turkey with "The Man Who Ate Everything," food critic Jeffrey Steingarten

Best Reason to Leave San Francisco

The Intolerance

Best Place for View Hounds

Corona Heights Park

Citizen Canine

As the dog wars heat up, desperate times call for desperate measures -- perhaps a mandatory test for off-leash pets?

Night + Day

Unspun

Two Barks Up the Wrong Tree