Treat your pet to homemade chicken chicharrones

I always buy chicken with the bones and the skin — first, because it’s more cost effective, and second, because the bones and skin impart so much flavor and moisture as the... Read More

Political Animal

Abused, neglected and misunderstood: pit bulls rarely get ‘golden retriever homes’

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A woman in her late 60s approached timidly one afternoon while Skylar and I were sitting in the park. “Is that a pit bull?” she asked. “Yes,” I said. “... Read More

The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Chapter 14: Of Chillows, children and Chihuahuas

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Jazzy had a big, bold personality with an independent streak a mile wide. She loved children more than any dog I’ve ever known. If she saw a group of them playing in the park... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Despite local politics, Lombard gets a pet store

Wolf & Lion brings boutique warehouse to the Marina

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

The reason 2460 Lombard Street in the Marina has been a vacant blight for many years rather than a Pet Food Express (PFE) replete with a $2 million renovation has nothing to do wit... Read More

The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Chapter 13: There’s no psychiatrist like a puppy licking your face

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Steve and I met while I was the community manager for a company called eFrenzy during the first San Francisco tech boom. I say first because, as we learned in 2000, what goes up mu... Read More

Political Animal

Three dogs dead in three months by SFPD (and no officer training in sight)

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Duke was a good dog,” Raymond Jojola said, his voice trembling. “He was Santana’s dog, so he had to be.” Santana was the three-year-old son of Jojola’... Read More

Yapping

Marcy Schaaf: Founder and executive director, SaveABunny

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

How did you get involved with bunny rescue? I found a rabbit while walking my dog. I knew virtually nothing about rabbits except that this particular rabbit was not a wild rabbit (... Read More

The Wild Wild Web

Four signs we are headed for another dot-com bomb

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Their investors included Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, and Goldman Sachs. In under two years, the company raised nearly half a billion dollars with an initi... Read More

Reynolds Rap

The vacancy preservationists: David Chiu and North Beach cartel still making it tough to do business

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

At a cafe in Mill Valley, Jordan Angle opens a large binder containing a business plan for Tryst, the high-end restaurant and lounge that he and his partners want to open at 493 Br... Read More

Sky’s Buys

Hear Doggy ultrasonic toys

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I must admit I was skeptical when Steve and I came upon Hear Doggy ultrasonic toys at Pet Food Express — until I squeezed one from behind my back and Skylar and Blue started cock... Read More

Political Animal

Homeless dogs of Golden Gate Park: A tragedy waiting to happen

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 at 10:40 p.m., San Francisco police responded to a 911 call about a dog attack in progress at 25th Avenue and Lincoln Way at a homeless encampment near Go... Read More

The Wild Wild Web

With extortion-style ad sales, Yelp is barking up the wrong tree

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I co-host the Cooking with Ryan Scott show on KGO Radio (810 AM) Saturdays from 4 to 6 p.m., and whenever we have chefs on as guests, review website Yelp inevitably comes up, and u... Read More

Reynolds Rap

There’s no front desk at Airbnb

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A couple of years ago we were visiting Los Angeles and our usual hotel was booked solid. At the last minute, we took a room at a motel on the border of ritzy Santa Monica and eclec... Read More

Are the San Francisco 49ers a bunch of thugs?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Denise York once told me the team wouldn’t sell their soul to the devil to win games, but in the Harbaugh era, I’m not so sure. In February of 2011, I penned an editor&... Read More

Sky’s Buys

Water-friendly collars and tags

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Somewhere deep in Skylar’s DNA there must be a champion Labrador retriever, because she can’t get enough of the water. Most of her collars — some leather, some with crystals,... Read More

Susan Dyer Reynolds