From City Insider at SFGate.com, the alter-ego of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Happy Birthday, San Francisco Animal Care and Control!
The city agency turns 20 Wednesday, and will celebrate with a ceremony at noon and will have specials all afternoon for those who want to adopt animals.
If you decide to bring home a new family member, you will receive 20 percent off adoption fees and get special prizes and pet supplies.
The ceremony will include a dedication of the agency's off-leash park, which will be named for longtime Animal Care and Control Director Carl Friedman, who retired this year.
San Francisco's Animal Care and Control has a policy to take in all animals -- domestic or wild -- and over the years has seen a wide range of critters, according to staffers. Visitors over the past two decades have included a circus bear, a tank of piranhas, alligators and venomous snakes, a horse and donkey on a trek to Jerusalem, a herd of sheep and some mischievous monkeys.
Of course, the agency has also taken the lead on some high profile cases, including two fatal dog mauling cases (Diane Whipple's 2001 death and 12-year-old Nicholas Faibish's 2005 killing), and received some publicity on the television show Animal Cops - San Francisco.
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