SAN FRANCISCO — A Montara man walking two lapdogs off leash was hit with an electric-shock gun by a National Park Service ranger after allegedly giving a false name and trying to walk away, authorities said Monday. The park ranger encountered Gary Hesterberg with his two small dogs Sunday afternoon at Rancho Corral de Tierra, [...]
A Brooklyn, New York artist who has sparked outrage for killing a dog for a film, recently received two other commissions from San Francisco, California in addition to the $750,000 Central Subway contract he was awarded in June. But all his projects are about to be put on hold. In 2010, Tom Otterness won a [...]
The San Francisco, California-based animal rights organization In Defense of Animals wants South Koreans to stop eating animals–at least the adorable ones, anyway. The group staged a protest in front of San Francisco’s South Korean consulate this week, where they delivered a petition with over 15,000 signatures urging the South Korean government to do more [...]
Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! By Sarah Haughey for The Examiner Inmates at the Maple Street Jail are helping correct problem dogs’ behavior before the dogs are adopted, a therapeutic exercise that benefits the convicts and canines. Through an innovative partnership between the Sheriff’s Department and the Peninsula [...]
By Lindsay Barnett For Los Angeles Times Representatives from a half-dozen Bay Area animal shelters and rescue groups joined forces at a press conference Wednesday to draw attention to an increasingly large problem facing a tiny breed of dog: the humble Chihuahua. According to the group, the Chihuahua conundrum — a shocking surplus of them [...]
