Animals
Don't Be Bat-Freaked on Halloween
Learning How to Love the Nearly 20 Bat Species Living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo Counties
Learning how to love the nearly 20 bat species living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties. Read story.
Chihuahua Adoption
More Than 100 Wee Dogs Available from S.B. Shelters
More than 100 wee dogs available from S.B. shelters. Read story.
Creepy Critters
All Hallow’s Eve is fast approaching, and it’s none too soon to explore the creepy creatures of nature that symbolize Halloween. Read story.
Alpaca All Day!
Alpaca owners of the central coast will participate in the 2nd Annual National Alpaca Farm Day on Saturday, September 27, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Read story.
Alpaca Farm Day
What has four legs, spits, and makes a wonderful sweater? Read story.
Doggie Detectives Find Burials at the Presidio
Institute for Canine Forensics Locates Possible Historic Graves in Downtown Santa Barbara
Institute for Canine Forensics locates possible historic graves in downtown Santa Barbara; dogs will likely return to search again. Read story.
Doggie Detectives Look for the Long Dead
The Institute for Canine Forensics Comes to the Santa Barbara Presidio This Weekend
The Institute for Canine Forensics comes to the Santa Barbara Presidio this weekend, both to discuss what they do and search for lost burials. Read story.
Dog (and People) Training with Bark Busters
The Taming of the Shrew
When Bark Busters’ Frank Oliver arrived at my home to whisper my dog Rose into sanity last week, Rose greeted him exactly as she greets all intruders: she barked like a banshee, growled, snarled, jumped up and down, barked some more, and generally offered the impression that his life was in danger. Read story.
The Plight of the Wild Mustangs
Deanne Stillman chronicles the history of the horse in the American West
Santa Barbara may be known the world over for its temperate weather and beautiful coastline, but it is also rich in equine history spanning from the founding of the city and continuing today. Read story.
Adopt a Cat
For those who would like to replace the saying “dogs are man’s best friend” with “cats are the most companionable,” it’s your lucky day. Read story.
Canine Cloning Is a Reality for Pet Owners
Seeing Double
For many pet owners, their four-leggeds are their children. Some will do almost anything for their pets. Read story.
Doggie Manners
Does your pooch steal your slippers? Roll around on the furniture as if it were something deliciously stinky? Read story.
Endangered Species
The Wildling Art Museum presents a lecture by author and filmmaker Michael Tobias called The Art of Saving Endangered Species, in which he will address current world strategies for protecting endangered habitat and species around the globe. Read story.
Trainer Rebecca Atwater Teaches S.B. How to Ride
Horse Sense
When there is a horse show at Earl Warren Showgrounds, inevitably, a young woman with a long blonde ponytail can be found bobbing and weaving throughout the sea of blue jackets and black boots. Read story.
Lions and Rattlers and Bears, Oh My!
Wild Things
When I first took to hiking in Los Padres Forest alone, amid the bear scat and cougar paw prints, I carried a large rock, prepared for an encounter with a large predator. Read story.
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