Dog Friendly Dining: Crossroads Cafe in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood
San Francisco has changed immeasurably over the past couple decades, and it’s become hard to find a great place to hang out with your dog. Right? Is the neighborhood just south of the Bay Bridge along the Bay even still called South Beach? Anyway, next to and part of the grander Delancey Street Restaurant is Cross…
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The Search For the Best: Help Pet Camp find the most pet friendly places in San Francisco!
You hear it all the time about cities are around the world: A city is a collection of neighborhoods. Of course this is true about San Francisco. From the northernmost corner of the Marina District to the southernmost area of Visitacon Valley, San Francisco’s neighborhoods meld from one to the next as the edges blend…
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Altitude Sickness: Ski Season and Your Dog (and Cat)
It’s the middle of October. The days are getting shorter and it’s hot in San Francisco (September and October are our hottest months of the year.) That means that ski season is on its way! I love skiing – there was a time, yes, before marriage, before kids, and before Pet Camp, where I got…
Read MoreLEGAL RAMIFICATIONS FOR DOGS? I could get stuck with Marmalade!
Everybody knows that Marmalade is Virginia (my wife’s) dog. I was out of town one Saturday last December when I got a text message from one of the kids with a picture of Marmalade in the back of our minivan coming to our house from Virginia’s place of work (San Francisco Animal Care and Control.)…
Read MoreMarmalade and the Angry Bouncer
It pains me to tell you this, but Marmalade, my (well, she’s actually Virginia’s dog) 155-pound Mastiff, may have gotten me banned from my favorite dog friendly dive bar in San Francisco. Here’s The Sad Story For the last 10 years or so, Splash and now Marmalade have joined me and a few other…
Read MoreIt’s Always the Big Dog’s Fault?
I was re-reading the August Your Dog newsletter published by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, and stumbled across the following sentence in an article titled When a Big Dog Attacks a Little Dog: “It is never your fault if a larger dog attacks your little one.” Big Dogs vs. Little Dogs:…
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