Happiest Time of the Year
The kids are back at school, the days are warm and the nights are crisp, and there are still 10 weekends before Thanksgiving. Traveling over the holidays can be hectic and stressful, but traveling over a fall weekend when everyone else is staying at home doing chores is AMAZING! Put off folding that laundry, painting the…
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International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Avast, ye mateys! It’s coming to that time o’ year again: International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Although having absolutely nothing at all to do with cats or dogs, Talk Like A Pirate Day happens to be Mark’s favourite day of the year, and as the cap’n of this ship, whatever Mark wants, Mark gets!…
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Planning Ahead
While for Mark that usually means thinking about having lunch about 10 minutes before its dinner time, we know that many of you are way more responsible than he. As much as we shudder to even mention it, there are some pet parents who are already booking reservations for Thanksgiving and Christmas. If you’re off…
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Swimsuit Season in San Francisco!
Finally it’s September, which means the sun is shining in San Francisco! After breaking 70 degrees only twice in August we know the heat is on the way (which means we might hit 80 degrees for a few days)! If you’re out and about at Fort Funston or Crissy Field, watch out for rip currents…
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Sami Needs a New Home
Around the middle of August Sami checked into Pet Camp for a short 4 day stay. Unfortunately for very sad reasons way beyond Sami’s, and maybe anyone else’s, control, Sami was never picked up and we learned that she never would be. Under California state law when something like this happens (and it has happened…
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Debunking Black Dog Syndrome
For many years it has been stated that black dogs (and cats for that matter) were harder for animal shelters to find homes for than dogs of other colors. Well, a recently published study calls this into question. A study in the journal Animal Welfare examined four years of adoption records at two shelters in the…
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