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"content": "\u003cp>It was a fairly surreal sight: 50 artists (plus a group of children, aged 11 and younger) seated side-by-side at long tables dotted around the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, immortalizing other people’s pets. Welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/event/pet-portraits-day/\">Pet Portraits Day\u003c/a>, an event designed to celebrate animals, art and the museum’s current \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13921767/joan-brown-retrospective-sfmoma-review\">Joan Brown exhibit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13921767']Artists in attendance on Saturday, Feb. 4 included some of the Bay Area’s most distinctive local talent, including the likes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13866168/christopher-martin\">Christopher Martin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854122/kate-rhoades-kids-youtube-finger-family-song\">Kate Rhoades\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13903008/gina-contreras-paintings-beckon-in-hey-there-lonely-girl\">Gina Contreras\u003c/a>. Each of them was given the goal of finishing four separate portraits in six hours. Though the majority of participating artists stuck to drawing and painting the pets, some dabbled in collage, sculpture and, in the case of Isa Beniston of \u003ca href=\"https://gentlethrills.com/collections/new-new-new\">gentle thrills\u003c/a> (a colorful accessories and homewares company), T-shirt airbrushing. The unusual format gave Beniston the opportunity to paint the animals more realistically than fans of gentle thrills might have expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I could’ve done drawings of my usual goofy animals,” she told KQED from her station on the second floor, “but this is a weird niche part of my practice that I’ve been doing for years. I can airbrush these pet portraits from a photo in a way that is a bit more realistic. I mean when am I ever going to be asked back to do something like this? I can draw any time! This felt more special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with brown hair tied back in a ponytail leans in close to a white T-shirt that she's airbrushing with an image of a dog.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_114154-scaled-e1675672079862.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isa Beniston of gentle thrills airbrushes a pet portrait onto a white T-shirt. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beniston, like the other artists at Pet Portrait Day, handpicked the pets she wanted to celebrate after SFMOMA visitors submitted photos of their floofs on arrival at the museum that morning. So how did the artist choose her subjects from so many cute pets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Expression,” Beniston said. “The more goofy the face is, or saggy and wrinkly the face is, that’s the most fun to airbrush. When you’re looking at a bulldog with face wrinkles and saggy jowls, there’s just more to work with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portraits of 3 dogs, a cat, an iguana and a guinea pig.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/pet-ports-eee-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pet portraits by (top row L-R): Alan Miknis, Christopher Martin, Minnie Phan, and (bottom row L-R) Jessalyn Aaland, Kate Rhoades and Elaine Chu. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another artist who opted to stretch beyond the medium she’s best known for was Oakland-based muralist Kristi Holohan. When I found her on SFMOMA’s fourth floor, Holohan was painting details onto a soft sculpture of an upright-standing dog. Given the time-intensive format she was using, I asked how on earth Holohan was stitching so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13866168']“I love sewing,” Holohan said. “For me it’s kind of like second nature. I prepped two of the bodies last night, which took me about four hours.” The heads of the pets were designed and sewn on the day of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little absurd, but it’s also adorable,” she said, examining the dog in her hand. “Oftentimes sewing is seen simply as a woman’s work. For me, it’s much more than that. Putting it in the SFMOMA validates it as a beautiful art form. That’s one of the reasons I chose to do sewing today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of my work focuses on connecting people with nature,” Holohan continued. “[My goal is to] make something really cute so people can build a psychological connection to what we’re looking at. I like to make things cutesy that also inspire awe and wonder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with shoulder length brown hair sits at a table holding up a soft toy in the shape of a standing dog. She is smiling and holding up a tiny collar.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230204_124151-scaled-e1675677714526.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristi Holohan with her dog soft sculpture. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two rows in front of Holohan, I encountered San Francisco photographer and artist Justin Marshall painting the pet that I had submitted that morning — my rat, Daisy. Beaming with pride, I asked Marshall why he’d picked her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I picked Daisy for a few reasons,” Marshall told me. “I really like the idea of a diverse group of animals being represented. My daughter wants to get a dog, but we don’t have room for a dog, so we’ve had frogs, we had snails for a while… Small critters make sense, so this rat just seems like a very San Francisco pet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/20230205_164411-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wall of pet portraits as seen on the SFMOMA’s fourth floor on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pet portraits will be displayed on the museum’s fourth floor until the end of Monday, Feb. 6. 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"content": "\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13912098']Over the weekend, a new star outgrew the confines of TikTok and was welcomed with open hearts and minds by the rest of the internet. His name is Emmanuel Todd Lopez, he’s an emu, and—like so many parents at so many dinner tables—he has a raging vendetta against cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avid TikTok users have known about Emmanuel’s sparkling personality for weeks now, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knuckle Bump Farms’ account\u003c/a> on the app. The South Florida farm’s content—curated by 29-year-old farmer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hiitaylorblake/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Blake\u003c/a>—had primarily revolved around cattle and very sweet miniature cows since joining TikTok. That was until Emmanuel angrily sauntered into the picture in early July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118102996201917739\" data-video-id=\"7118102996201917739\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> Not a day goes by that Emanuel doesn’t try my life \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emusoftiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emusoftiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emusoftiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118102977310690091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video quickly garnered millions of views and Emmanuel fans demanded more ornery emu content. Blake happily obliged, providing another clip of the big bird behaving badly. “Emmanuel, don’t do it!” quickly became a universal symbol of the entire world’s work-related frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118391540732710190\" data-video-id=\"7118391540732710190\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> Another day, another Emmanuel don’t do it🤦🏼♀️its impossible to educate under these hostile work conditions \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanueltheemu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanueltheemu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanueltheemu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"choas\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/choas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#choas\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118391475100044075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the inevitable. A request to see what happened when Emmanuel \u003cem>did\u003c/em> do it. Again, Blake happily obliged with a TikTok of Emmanuel angrily knocking Blake’s cell phone to the ground and pecking at it. “Do you feel fulfilled now?” Blake asks him. “Did it give you a rush?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118525659487620398\" data-video-id=\"7118525659487620398\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> Reply to @pdtheog is this what you wanted? Bc I have cow shit stuck in my phone speaker now😩 \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanuel\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanuel\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emusoftiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emusoftiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emusoftiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118525653288291118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major key in the appeal of the Emmanuel videos is the juxtaposition of his beady-eyed determination and Blake’s exasperated pleas for peace and sanity. This is also something she does with the other animals on the farm, as seen on TikTok. (“Ferdinand, I don’t need it out of you. This is exactly why we moved your mom to the big pasture: because she never shut her mouth.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7118404457943092522\" data-video-id=\"7118404457943092522\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> I am tired of the verbal abuse I endure at the hooves of these cows \u003ca title=\"cowsoftiktok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cowsoftiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#cowsoftiktok\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"farmlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/farmlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#farmlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"moo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/moo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#moo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"stopbullying\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/stopbullying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stopbullying\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7118404444919728939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, after someone made a supercut of Blake’s videos, the cult of Emmanuel spread to Instagram and Twitter, helped in large part by celebrity fans. Including Wonder Woman herself, Lynda Carter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RealLyndaCarter/status/1548697854234984451\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian Patton Oswalt posted several of Blake’s videos over the weekend. A favorite: one where she thanks the internet for supporting her and Emmanuel, then promptly gets her cell phone knocked into the dirt for her trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1548718744498671616\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on Sunday when we finally found out Emmanuel’s “government name”: Emmanuel Todd Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms/video/7121505700672458026\" data-video-id=\"7121505700672458026\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@knucklebumpfarms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@knucklebumpfarms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@knucklebumpfarms\u003c/a> He knew I meant business when I whipped out his government name 😩🤣 \u003ca title=\"emmanueltheemu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanueltheemu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanueltheemu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanueldontdoit\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanueldontdoit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanueldontdoit\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emmanuel\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emmanuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emmanuel\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"emu\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/emu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#emu\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"animalsagainsteducation\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/animalsagainsteducation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#animalsagainsteducation\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Knuckle Bump Farms\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7121505683312282411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Knuckle Bump Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the internet was very excited about this important development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/mspears96/status/1548902042604896256\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/riverag3000/status/1548833955062747136\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/genwilliams/status/1548853201235058691\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No word yet on how the other emus at Knuckle Bump Farms—Regina and Ellen—are reacting to their friend’s newfound stardom. 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This was the new chick first thing this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-800x640.png\" alt=\"A tiny, freshly hatched peregrine falcon chick sits between broken red-brown egg shell pieces, next to another intact egg. An adult peregrine falcon watches over the hatchling closely.\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-800x640.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-1020x816.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM-768x614.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-05-at-9.35.23-AM.png 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first of the chicks that arrived on May 5. Look at its tiny beaky face! \u003ccite>(Twitter/ @calfalconcam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just a few hours later, the cuteness factor went through the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/cal_alumna/status/1522279686352474112\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annie continued to incubate the two remaining eggs while also keeping the new chick safe and warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522275821628628992\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Friday morning, the second chick made its first appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522655860828389376\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chick no. 2 escaped its shell entirely just a couple of hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1522683029264924672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the third egg was abandoned. The new parents, however, kept themselves busy with the very serious task of feeding the babies their snack of choice—raw meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w2gHoNOyVE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1523828974899666944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny duo will no doubt consume the attention of falcon fans and UC Berkeley’s ornithologists as they mature over the next 40 days or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annie and Grinnell’s fourteenth and fifteenth babies successfully making it out of their eggs is cause for celebration. Concerns that none of the toot-floofs would make it into the world went into overdrive on March 31, when \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1509650552904466447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grinnell was hit and killed by a car\u003c/a>. 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Within one day of Grinnell’s departure, New Guy (as the internet initially dubbed him) started assisting Annie with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1509999046294970369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">egg-warming duties\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1511388038273900549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">food deliveries\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CalFalconCam/status/1510788263208001541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nest defense\u003c/a> at the Campanile. Annie felt so at ease with New Guy, she even laid a third egg. Ordinarily when a mated peregrine falcon loses their partner during breeding season, the nest gets abandoned. Final proof, if we needed it, that Annie is no ordinary falcon. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]G[/dropcap]old Rush San Francisco had a stray dog problem. Teams of snarling, scrapping mutts roamed the city untethered and reproducing faster than humans could handle. The dogs were as determined to survive as the locals who fed them scraps when there was meat to share. But they were an often-troublesome addition to city streets that were already wild by anyone’s standards. In April 1860, the \u003cem>Daily Alta California\u003c/em> reported: “We never knew a city in America so used with the canine nuisance as San Francisco. Sometimes at night, their howling is enough to drive one distracted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that report, the city took brutal measures to prevent the dog population from getting any larger. An ordinance was passed by the Board of Supervisors (est. 1856) that banned canines anywhere north of Ninth Street and east of Larkin. Dogs that had neither leash nor muzzle could be shot on sight by police officers, or else locked up in the pound by the local dogcatcher. The impounded pups were released only when a human companion forked over $5 (roughly $142 in 2022 money). Most were killed. The dogs that outsmarted the catcher weren’t much better off—their human neighbors were not averse to leaving poisoned meat scraps on the street to fell their numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a dark time for the dogs of San Francisco—well, most of them anyway. By some miracle, out of the anti-canine maelstrom emerged a puppy pair that the city actually wanted to root for: Bummer and Lazarus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13906656']Bummer was a black and white Newfoundland mix with ears that had been cropped unevenly. He earned his name by patrolling businesses up and down Montgomery Street and begging for scraps on a set schedule. He was understood to be uncommonly intelligent and was particularly popular at Martin & Horton’s. The saloon at 534 Montgomery, at the corner of Clay, was owned by Frederick Martin and renowned for the cheapness of its liquor. It was also frequented by the many reporters who worked in nearby newspaper offices. These journalists would go on to make Bummer famous across the city—but only after he took up with his less streetwise pal, Lazarus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lazarus was described in one paper as “part hound, part terrier and a good many parts of several other varieties.” In another, he was merely “a sleek, half-starved mongrel.” After Bummer rescued Lazarus from an attack by a bigger dog, the pair became fast and inseparable associates. Witnessing the friendship form, the reporters at Martin & Horton’s were rapt. Soon, so was the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, 1861, Bummer and Lazarus made their first appearance in the \u003cem>Daily Alta\u003c/em> together:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Three or four days ago, a poor, lean, mangy cur [mongrel] was attacked in the street by a larger dog, and was getting unmercifully walloped when Bummer’s ire being aroused at the unequal contest, he rushed in and gave the attacking canine such a rough handling that he was glad to quit the field yelping … Every night since that, the two dogs have slept coiled up together, close to some doorway—Bummer always giving the lame cur the inside berth, and trying to keep him as warm as possible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the four years that followed, any time a slow news day presented itself, readers of San Francisco’s newspapers could expect an update about Bummer and Lazarus. (The latter named after the biblical figure who was revived after four days of death.) The stories about the duo were frequent and dramatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dogs were hailed as heroes after they apparently stopped a runaway horse and cart. There were reports about them taking scraps to each other when they were too sick to go out and beg themselves. There were tales about their run-ins with local merchants—in particular after the pair got into a jewelry store and smashed some display cases. (On another occasion, Lazarus accidentally got locked in a stationery store overnight.) If it was a particularly slow day, readers could expect a story about the pair stealing bones from other dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-768x547.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartoonist Edward Jump often drew Bummer and Lazarus in the company of Emperor Norton. Norton was reportedly so angered by this image of him dining with the dogs, he broke his own cane. \u003ccite>(Public domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, San Francisco loved the dogs because of their friendship and their adventures together. But, more than that, San Francisco loved Bummer and Lazarus because of one activity they both excelled at: killing rats. And there were enough rats in the city at the time to outnumber dogs and humans combined. The businesses Bummer and Lazarus frequented for food were paid back tenfold in rat population control. Legend has it, the pair once killed 85 rats in 20 minutes. At one rat-catching contest held between Clay and Merchant Streets, the duo beat out all other competition, including pedigree dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13910308']One of the only people in the city not to know of the dogs’ ratting prowess—or their enormous popularity—was the dogcatcher who made the mistake of picking up Lazarus in June 1862. “If that dog-catcher had not made good haste out of the neighborhood,” the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> reported on July 3, 1892, “he would have been roughly handled for his zeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of the news spreading down Montgomery, Clay, Sansome and Merchant, enough donations had been collected from saloons, butcher shops and eateries to free Bummer’s BFF from the pound. But people’s relief at the dogs’ reunion was short-lived. Concern quickly spread that one of downtown’s most beloved dogs would soon be caught again. It was then that a plan was hatched to acquire permanent protections for Bummer and Lazarus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A petition was quickly written up, asking for: “The consecration of the two dogs as city property, whereby they may be exempted from taxation or destruction.” Hundreds of Bummer and Lazarus fans signed the document and then presented it to the Board of Supervisors on June 16, 1862.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, the \u003cem>Daily Alta\u003c/em> reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A mammoth petition was presented to the Board of Supervisors last evening, praying that the public dogs, Bummer and Lazarus be exempt from the provisions of the present stringent Ordinance for the destruction of the race … At the hour of convening the board of supervisors they lay crouched at the threshold of the chamber, apparently eager to hear what was to be said and done for their benefit. If any man carried them there, it was a cute dodge to get favorable action on their petition; if they went there voluntarily, they ought to have free run of the town during the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And guess what? After the hearing, Bummer and Lazarus \u003cem>were\u003c/em> granted free run of the town for the rest of their lives, safe and unimpeded by the dogcatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909983'][dropcap]S[/dropcap]adly, the freedom to roam the city could not save them from the cruelty within it. In October 1863, Lazarus died after eating poisoned meat. The city mourned his loss, but mourned Bummer’s bereavement even more so. The \u003cem>Daily Evening Bulletin\u003c/em> printed an obituary titled “Lament for Lazarus,” which referred to Bummer and his fallen companion as “two dogs with but a single bark, two tails that wagged as one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bummer survived two more years without his pal. And though he occasionally took a new friend under his wing, he never bonded with another dog the way he had bonded with Lazarus. Like his old friend, Bummer died a cruel death, kicked down some stairs by a drunk named Henry Rippey. Rippey was apprehended, punched in the nose by his cell-mate and forced to pay a hefty fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bummer was warmly eulogized just as Lazarus had been. On Nov. 3, 1865, the \u003cem>Daily Evening Bulletin\u003c/em> wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[Bummer’s] independence and the novelty of his genius took with the people, and from that day he has been the pet of everybody without distinction of party … His remarkable friendship for … Lazarus will now deathless meet its reward, and thee twain can once more walk side by side.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After shuffling off this mortal coil, Bummer and Lazarus were both stuffed and put on display in their former haunts. Lazarus ended up in a Sansome Street business owned by one Gus Van Bergen. Bummer’s taxidermied body was purchased by a Mr. Erlenwein, who had assumed ownership of Martin & Horton’s. The dogs were displayed together at 1894’s Midwinter Fair, and donated to the Golden Gate Park Museum in 1906, but ultimately destroyed sometime in the early 20th century. Which is appropriate given that, by that point, what was left of the dogs had definitely seen better days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-800x365.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-800x365.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-1020x465.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-160x73.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-768x350.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed.png 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poor, old, taxidermied bodies of Bummer (L) and Lazarus (R). \u003ccite>(Public domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the memory of Bummer and Lazarus lives on in San Francisco. Bayview’s Raff Distillerie makes a \u003ca href=\"https://raffdistillerie.com/gin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bummer and Lazarus gin\u003c/a>, featuring an ornate label adorned with the dogs. Even more fitting is the tribute that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Clampus_Vitus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E Clampus Vitus\u003c/a> (aka The Clampers) installed in Redwood Park, in the shadow of the Transamerica building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting right in the heart of Bummer and Lazarus’ old stomping grounds since March 1992, a plaque dedicated to their memory declares:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Their devotion to each other endeared them to the citizenry, and the newspapers reported their joint adventures … They were welcomed, regular customers at popular eating and drinking establishments on Montgomery Street. Contrary to common belief, they were not Emperor Norton’s dogs. They belonged to no one person. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bummer was a black and white Newfoundland mix with ears that had been cropped unevenly. He earned his name by patrolling businesses up and down Montgomery Street and begging for scraps on a set schedule. He was understood to be uncommonly intelligent and was particularly popular at Martin & Horton’s. The saloon at 534 Montgomery, at the corner of Clay, was owned by Frederick Martin and renowned for the cheapness of its liquor. It was also frequented by the many reporters who worked in nearby newspaper offices. These journalists would go on to make Bummer famous across the city—but only after he took up with his less streetwise pal, Lazarus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lazarus was described in one paper as “part hound, part terrier and a good many parts of several other varieties.” In another, he was merely “a sleek, half-starved mongrel.” After Bummer rescued Lazarus from an attack by a bigger dog, the pair became fast and inseparable associates. Witnessing the friendship form, the reporters at Martin & Horton’s were rapt. Soon, so was the whole city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, 1861, Bummer and Lazarus made their first appearance in the \u003cem>Daily Alta\u003c/em> together:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Three or four days ago, a poor, lean, mangy cur [mongrel] was attacked in the street by a larger dog, and was getting unmercifully walloped when Bummer’s ire being aroused at the unequal contest, he rushed in and gave the attacking canine such a rough handling that he was glad to quit the field yelping … Every night since that, the two dogs have slept coiled up together, close to some doorway—Bummer always giving the lame cur the inside berth, and trying to keep him as warm as possible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n the four years that followed, any time a slow news day presented itself, readers of San Francisco’s newspapers could expect an update about Bummer and Lazarus. (The latter named after the biblical figure who was revived after four days of death.) The stories about the duo were frequent and dramatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dogs were hailed as heroes after they apparently stopped a runaway horse and cart. There were reports about them taking scraps to each other when they were too sick to go out and beg themselves. There were tales about their run-ins with local merchants—in particular after the pair got into a jewelry store and smashed some display cases. (On another occasion, Lazarus accidentally got locked in a stationery store overnight.) If it was a particularly slow day, readers could expect a story about the pair stealing bones from other dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0-768x547.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/1200x0.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartoonist Edward Jump often drew Bummer and Lazarus in the company of Emperor Norton. Norton was reportedly so angered by this image of him dining with the dogs, he broke his own cane. \u003ccite>(Public domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, San Francisco loved the dogs because of their friendship and their adventures together. But, more than that, San Francisco loved Bummer and Lazarus because of one activity they both excelled at: killing rats. And there were enough rats in the city at the time to outnumber dogs and humans combined. The businesses Bummer and Lazarus frequented for food were paid back tenfold in rat population control. Legend has it, the pair once killed 85 rats in 20 minutes. At one rat-catching contest held between Clay and Merchant Streets, the duo beat out all other competition, including pedigree dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One of the only people in the city not to know of the dogs’ ratting prowess—or their enormous popularity—was the dogcatcher who made the mistake of picking up Lazarus in June 1862. “If that dog-catcher had not made good haste out of the neighborhood,” the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> reported on July 3, 1892, “he would have been roughly handled for his zeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of the news spreading down Montgomery, Clay, Sansome and Merchant, enough donations had been collected from saloons, butcher shops and eateries to free Bummer’s BFF from the pound. But people’s relief at the dogs’ reunion was short-lived. Concern quickly spread that one of downtown’s most beloved dogs would soon be caught again. It was then that a plan was hatched to acquire permanent protections for Bummer and Lazarus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A petition was quickly written up, asking for: “The consecration of the two dogs as city property, whereby they may be exempted from taxation or destruction.” Hundreds of Bummer and Lazarus fans signed the document and then presented it to the Board of Supervisors on June 16, 1862.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day, the \u003cem>Daily Alta\u003c/em> reported:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A mammoth petition was presented to the Board of Supervisors last evening, praying that the public dogs, Bummer and Lazarus be exempt from the provisions of the present stringent Ordinance for the destruction of the race … At the hour of convening the board of supervisors they lay crouched at the threshold of the chamber, apparently eager to hear what was to be said and done for their benefit. If any man carried them there, it was a cute dodge to get favorable action on their petition; if they went there voluntarily, they ought to have free run of the town during the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And guess what? After the hearing, Bummer and Lazarus \u003cem>were\u003c/em> granted free run of the town for the rest of their lives, safe and unimpeded by the dogcatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>adly, the freedom to roam the city could not save them from the cruelty within it. In October 1863, Lazarus died after eating poisoned meat. The city mourned his loss, but mourned Bummer’s bereavement even more so. The \u003cem>Daily Evening Bulletin\u003c/em> printed an obituary titled “Lament for Lazarus,” which referred to Bummer and his fallen companion as “two dogs with but a single bark, two tails that wagged as one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bummer survived two more years without his pal. And though he occasionally took a new friend under his wing, he never bonded with another dog the way he had bonded with Lazarus. Like his old friend, Bummer died a cruel death, kicked down some stairs by a drunk named Henry Rippey. Rippey was apprehended, punched in the nose by his cell-mate and forced to pay a hefty fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bummer was warmly eulogized just as Lazarus had been. On Nov. 3, 1865, the \u003cem>Daily Evening Bulletin\u003c/em> wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[Bummer’s] independence and the novelty of his genius took with the people, and from that day he has been the pet of everybody without distinction of party … His remarkable friendship for … Lazarus will now deathless meet its reward, and thee twain can once more walk side by side.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After shuffling off this mortal coil, Bummer and Lazarus were both stuffed and put on display in their former haunts. Lazarus ended up in a Sansome Street business owned by one Gus Van Bergen. Bummer’s taxidermied body was purchased by a Mr. Erlenwein, who had assumed ownership of Martin & Horton’s. The dogs were displayed together at 1894’s Midwinter Fair, and donated to the Golden Gate Park Museum in 1906, but ultimately destroyed sometime in the early 20th century. Which is appropriate given that, by that point, what was left of the dogs had definitely seen better days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-800x365.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-800x365.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-1020x465.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-160x73.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed-768x350.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/stuffed.png 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poor, old, taxidermied bodies of Bummer (L) and Lazarus (R). \u003ccite>(Public domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, the memory of Bummer and Lazarus lives on in San Francisco. Bayview’s Raff Distillerie makes a \u003ca href=\"https://raffdistillerie.com/gin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bummer and Lazarus gin\u003c/a>, featuring an ornate label adorned with the dogs. Even more fitting is the tribute that \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Clampus_Vitus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E Clampus Vitus\u003c/a> (aka The Clampers) installed in Redwood Park, in the shadow of the Transamerica building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting right in the heart of Bummer and Lazarus’ old stomping grounds since March 1992, a plaque dedicated to their memory declares:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Their devotion to each other endeared them to the citizenry, and the newspapers reported their joint adventures … They were welcomed, regular customers at popular eating and drinking establishments on Montgomery Street. Contrary to common belief, they were not Emperor Norton’s dogs. They belonged to no one person. They belonged to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alex the Great is not like other rabbits. I’m not just saying this because, weighing in at 28 lbs, he’s big enough to beat me up. And I’m not just saying it because he’s the newest member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/services-amenities/wag-brigade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFO’s Wag Brigade\u003c/a>, the team of animals employed to soothe the nerves of airport passengers and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. I’m saying it because I’m fairly certain that Alex the Great is the Rihanna of rabbits—\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFXVTDPeaj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he’s out here living his best life\u003c/a>, and making other people feel better in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t believe me? Alex the Great rides around in a customized convertible with his name on the back. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbbot0GA0IB/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He hangs out at nice restaurants\u003c/a>. He goes for jogs in the park at dusk. He wears dope clothes. He lives in downtown San Francisco. And he spends time \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CZyPc2-rgEz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bro-ing down at basketball\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfgiants/status/1385425009275924480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baseball games\u003c/a>. (Alex the Great is the official “\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/SFGiants/comments/pxowky/rally_rabbit_was_present_for_the_game_tonight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rally Rabbit\u003c/a>” of the Giants.) Make no mistake—if MTV’s \u003cem>Pimp My Ride\u003c/em> still existed, Alex the Great would have his own episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CYz24bSh6UA/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, Alex the Great is incredibly self-assured. Nothing—and I do mean nothing—fazes him. Which is how he so swiftly earned the Animal Assisted Therapy certificate that qualifies him to work at SFO. (He’s only 15 months old!) Alex the Great’s most endearing quality is that, if he takes a shine to you, he will happily hop into your lap for some quality snuggles. He did this to me last week during his most recent visit to the airport and, let me tell you, it felt better than any compliment I have ever received from a human adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909929']It was 11am on a Wednesday when Alex the Great—a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Giant_rabbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flemish Giant\u003c/a>—most recently rolled into SFO’s international terminal. He arrived in his stroller, pushed by Josh Row, Alex’s human roommate since Dec. 2020 and the person that brings Alex to all of his engagements. Alex remained effortlessly cool despite the immediate crowd that gathered around him to take turns petting him and posing for selfies. He took the time to greet each of them in turn. “I wouldn’t be here without my fans,” he told one (in my head). “The fans are what makes it all worthwhile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911118\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911118\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A grid of four squares showing: a woman on her knees hugging a giant rabbit, a little girl gesturing for attention behind a large rabbit, a woman in a mask petting a giant rabbit, and a woman petting a large rabbit as it lies inside a pet stroller. \" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/ATG-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humans at SFO (quite rightly) losing their damn minds over Alex the Great. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is my first time meeting Alex,” Sheryl Nashir, SFO’s Director of Revenue and Development told me. “I feel immediately happier, and calmer, and delighted. His neck is like a built-in pillow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it was my turn. Alex let me pet him for several minutes before half-hopping onto my lap and grinding his teeth together, which Row told me he does when he is happy. A wave of calm washed over me. And then it happened—Alex the Great began enthusiastically licking my wrist. Sweet validation!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911210\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.34.31-PM-800x760.png\" alt='A woman with bright red hair, dressed in black and pink, sits on the shiny floor of an airport next to a giant rabbit wearing a vest that says \"Wag Brigade\" and \"Pet Me\" on it.' width=\"800\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.34.31-PM-800x760.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.34.31-PM-1020x969.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.34.31-PM-160x152.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.34.31-PM-768x730.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.34.31-PM.png 1518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author with Alex the Great, casually hanging out on the floor of SFO. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t the only person whose day got better because of Alex the Great. Taliaferro Jones was traveling to Toronto with her two daughters that day. The trio had come to be with family in San Francisco at the very start of the pandemic, and they haven’t been able to return home to Canada ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is going to be a stressful one. They haven’t seen home in two years,” Jones said about her girls, 12-year-old Mirabel and 8-year-old Mya. Seeing Mirabel’s immediate rapport with Alex, Jones breathed a literal sigh of relief. “This is a great diversion,” she said. “It’s kind of a gift. Mirabel loves animals. I feel like maybe [Alex] is good luck for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911119\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911119\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/20220323_105732-scaled-e1648164273529-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A young girl of about 10, wearing a blue plaid dress and matching cardigan, kneels on the floor and pets a giant rabbit on her lap. 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Before escorting Alex home, Row—a mechanical engineer and rabbit rescue volunteer—told me that Alex has a number of important appointments coming up. These include meeting the mayors of both Burlingame and San Francisco. (“He’s met London Breed a couple of times now,” Row noted.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has a personality unlike any other animal we’ve ever seen,” said Row. “He wants to be social. He wants to go out. 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His neck is like a built-in pillow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it was my turn. Alex let me pet him for several minutes before half-hopping onto my lap and grinding his teeth together, which Row told me he does when he is happy. A wave of calm washed over me. And then it happened—Alex the Great began enthusiastically licking my wrist. 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Taliaferro Jones was traveling to Toronto with her two daughters that day. The trio had come to be with family in San Francisco at the very start of the pandemic, and they haven’t been able to return home to Canada ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is going to be a stressful one. They haven’t seen home in two years,” Jones said about her girls, 12-year-old Mirabel and 8-year-old Mya. Seeing Mirabel’s immediate rapport with Alex, Jones breathed a literal sigh of relief. “This is a great diversion,” she said. “It’s kind of a gift. Mirabel loves animals. 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"content": "\u003cp>In October, Huib Petersen stepped out of his home in Diamond Heights and found a rock with a face painted on it. Under the rock was a note that read, “Dear Neighvor, My name is Siena. I am 7 years old. I am in 2nd grade. I was wondering if you can help me with a school project. Could you make a crochet koala. How much will it cust? Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time neighborhood children called on Petersen in this way. Prompted by the joyful array of crocheted creatures he leaves nestled in trees around the neighborhood, local kids have made a point to find out who Petersen is and where exactly he lives. Petersen has spent the last six years seeking out good tree branches, creating animals he thinks would fit in them, then hanging them up during the day when most of his neighbors are in work or at school. In the course of doing so, Petersen has slowly—single-handedly—turned a two-block stretch of Diamond Street into a toy zoo of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a lot of reactions from people,” Petersen told KQED during an afternoon stroll to see the tree dwellers, “so I kept doing it. Because of the animals, I know most of my neighbors now. And my neighbors know each other. It is just so lovely seeing them outside, looking at the trees. ‘Oh, there’s a new one!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A crocheted brown goat with a round pink nose peaks over a tree branch. Right: A purple and black bat with fangs hangs upside down from a tree branch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-768x451.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-2048x1202.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-1920x1127.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petersen made the bat as a Halloween decoration but was quickly commissioned to make more for Castro and Diamond Heights residents. \u003ccite>(Huib Petersen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petersen and his husband Jeffrey Tumlin moved to Diamond Heights seven years ago. Initially, his community contributions manifested as crocheted gifts he would hand out to local children. But after the shock and drama of the 2016 election, Petersen made a concerted effort to seek out more joy, and figure out better ways to spread it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11688020']“We got Mr. Trump elected and that just hurt my heart,” Petersen says now. “And I saw at City Hall, someone was making these \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688020/whos-behind-the-knitted-animals-in-san-franciscos-civic-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enormous giraffes wrapped around the trees\u003c/a>. I saw that and I thought, ‘Oh, I can do that too. But smaller and everywhere in my neighborhood.’ Just for the fun of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t really doing it for the neighborhood,” he laughs impishly, “I was really doing it for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-800x795.png\" alt=\"A white man with a bald head, short white goatee beard and septum piercing smiles warmly in front of a red brick wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-800x795.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-1020x1014.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-160x159.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-768x763.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-1536x1527.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM.png 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huib Petersen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Huib Petersen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By day, Petersen is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.petersenarts.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jewelry designer\u003c/a> with an extraordinary gift for bead work. His passion for needle crafts started as a young child growing up in Holland. When he was six, his grandmother showed him how to crochet on his fingers. Around that time, he also taught himself how to knit by watching his mother making garments. “She wouldn’t teach me because I was a boy,” Petersen explains. “But because I was looking at my mother from this side, I did everything the other way around. I started everything mirrored-wise. And I’ve been doing it ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single animal can take Petersen up to a week to make, but he revels in the time-consuming work. He creates the animals in the evening, while his husband catches up on movies and TV shows. “My husband’s relaxation is sitting in front of the TV,” Petersen says. “My hands have to do something or else I get very bored. I cannot sit still.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Petersen doesn’t design the animals from scratch—instead using patterns from Revelry and Etsy as jumping off points—one of the things that makes his zoo so appealing is the child-like joy he injects into each of his creatures. On our walk, when the mild-mannered maker notices a wolf he made has slumped to one side on its branch, he laughs. “Well, that’s okay,” he says. “Wolves are a little bit crooked anyway. You cannot trust them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A crocheted sloth with googly eyes hangs upside down from its tail on a tree branch. Right: Blue, red, pink and purple crocheted crabs sit on the side of a tree branch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-768x451.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-2048x1202.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-1920x1127.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Petersen’s tree creatures caught just after a rain shower.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this stage, some of the animals are more weathered than others, and some have disappeared entirely. (“They’re presents to the city, and the city takes them every now and again,” Petersen shrugs.) He is careful to maintain his menagerie as best as he can though. He re-positions and re-attaches older, slipping animals. He relocates ones attached to trees that have died. And he temporarily moves any that happen to be outside homes that are being painted or renovated. He, like the rest of the neighborhood, see the animals as “a little treasure hunt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Diamond Heights animals were simply a quirk of the neighborhood, mostly enjoyed by those that lived there. But during 2020’s prolonged shelter-in-place order, people from other parts of the city started visiting the animals on hikes. They were a fun addition to the teddy bear hunts already happening in many families. And they were a much-needed distraction from the day-to-day stresses of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/octopus-1-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A luminous green, yellow and purple octopus sits on top of a tangled succulent plant. Right: An orange and yellow octopus sits in a tree, its long tentacles extending down the trunk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of Petersen’s octopuses, hanging out in Diamond Heights. \u003ccite>(Huib Petersen/ Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is clear from spending even a small amount of time in the vicinity that the grown-ups of Diamond Heights seem to like the animals almost as much as the kids do. The first time I stopped to take a photo of one—a goofy sloth hanging upside down by its ankles—a passing man stopped and, entirely unprompted, directed me to a tree further up the street. “You’ve gotta go see the monkeys!” he grinned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13890578']The monkeys in question were the result of another personal request from nearby children. Two siblings wanted monkeys on the street to represent the four people in their household. Petersen dutifully obliged. “Those kids stole my heart from the first moment I saw them,” he says. So when the children returned with a friend and asked for some crocheted witch’s hats for Halloween, he made those too. Despite offers from parents to pay for his creations, Petersen always politely declines. Instead, he asks people to pay the kindness forward and donate money to charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to that request for a koala from the 7-year-old Siena. The note she left outside Petersen’s house had her mother’s phone number on the back. When he reached out to her for more details, he found out that the koala would be for a school project—a secret garden. Siena wanted there to be an animal hidden in the trees there too, just like the ones on her street. Petersen ultimately made two—one for the garden and one for Siena to keep at home. In return, her family \u003ca href=\"https://gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/gifts/Species-Adoptions/Koala.aspx?sc=AWY2104OQ19298A03752RX&gclid=Cj0KCQiAzMGNBhCyARIsANpUkzOujh8LYIheNNthF6BDlXU5ANwtcFUtGE9LNuYy3BXJrt_77ArwGfEaAi7iEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted a koala\u003c/a> through the World Wildlife Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-800x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-800x597.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-1020x761.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-768x573.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-1536x1147.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-1920x1433.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM.png 2020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crocheted koalas, one wearing a coral and yellow backpack “for eucalyptus treats,” the other wearing a transparent tutu, “because everyone is happier in a tutu.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jeffrey Tumlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked if he has any new animals planned for the neighborhood, Petersen pauses, unsure if he wants to spoil the surprise. “I still have a lot of them that I want to make,” he says. “There are grasshoppers at my house. And a praying mantis that I am really interested in making. And a couple of gnomes that I think are very funny. So there are still things coming up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petersen is also planning to make some little monsters for a tree outside a nearby school. He recently made some for the windows of \u003ca href=\"https://imagiknit.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ImagiKnit\u003c/a> as Halloween decorations. So many people tried to buy them that the Castro Street craft store had to start selling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906855\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-800x267.jpg\" alt=\"Pink, green and purple crocheted monsters with big eyes and underbites from the window of Imagine Knit in San Francisco's Castro District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-768x256.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-2048x683.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petersen’s crochet monsters as seen in ImagiKnit. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petersen himself is modest about his creations and tells me he’s not sure what all the fuss is about. Still, he keeps creating, motivated by his own positivity and community spirit that he sees reflected back in his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope this might inspire kindness and creativity,” he says. “It’s just a nice thing. And I do it for the fun of it.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In October, Huib Petersen stepped out of his home in Diamond Heights and found a rock with a face painted on it. Under the rock was a note that read, “Dear Neighvor, My name is Siena. I am 7 years old. I am in 2nd grade. I was wondering if you can help me with a school project. Could you make a crochet koala. How much will it cust? Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time neighborhood children called on Petersen in this way. Prompted by the joyful array of crocheted creatures he leaves nestled in trees around the neighborhood, local kids have made a point to find out who Petersen is and where exactly he lives. Petersen has spent the last six years seeking out good tree branches, creating animals he thinks would fit in them, then hanging them up during the day when most of his neighbors are in work or at school. In the course of doing so, Petersen has slowly—single-handedly—turned a two-block stretch of Diamond Street into a toy zoo of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got a lot of reactions from people,” Petersen told KQED during an afternoon stroll to see the tree dwellers, “so I kept doing it. Because of the animals, I know most of my neighbors now. And my neighbors know each other. It is just so lovely seeing them outside, looking at the trees. ‘Oh, there’s a new one!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A crocheted brown goat with a round pink nose peaks over a tree branch. Right: A purple and black bat with fangs hangs upside down from a tree branch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-768x451.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-2048x1202.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/goat-bat-1920x1127.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petersen made the bat as a Halloween decoration but was quickly commissioned to make more for Castro and Diamond Heights residents. \u003ccite>(Huib Petersen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petersen and his husband Jeffrey Tumlin moved to Diamond Heights seven years ago. Initially, his community contributions manifested as crocheted gifts he would hand out to local children. But after the shock and drama of the 2016 election, Petersen made a concerted effort to seek out more joy, and figure out better ways to spread it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We got Mr. Trump elected and that just hurt my heart,” Petersen says now. “And I saw at City Hall, someone was making these \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688020/whos-behind-the-knitted-animals-in-san-franciscos-civic-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enormous giraffes wrapped around the trees\u003c/a>. I saw that and I thought, ‘Oh, I can do that too. But smaller and everywhere in my neighborhood.’ Just for the fun of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t really doing it for the neighborhood,” he laughs impishly, “I was really doing it for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-800x795.png\" alt=\"A white man with a bald head, short white goatee beard and septum piercing smiles warmly in front of a red brick wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-800x795.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-1020x1014.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-160x159.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-768x763.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM-1536x1527.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.33.03-AM.png 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huib Petersen. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Huib Petersen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By day, Petersen is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.petersenarts.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jewelry designer\u003c/a> with an extraordinary gift for bead work. His passion for needle crafts started as a young child growing up in Holland. When he was six, his grandmother showed him how to crochet on his fingers. Around that time, he also taught himself how to knit by watching his mother making garments. “She wouldn’t teach me because I was a boy,” Petersen explains. “But because I was looking at my mother from this side, I did everything the other way around. I started everything mirrored-wise. And I’ve been doing it ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single animal can take Petersen up to a week to make, but he revels in the time-consuming work. He creates the animals in the evening, while his husband catches up on movies and TV shows. “My husband’s relaxation is sitting in front of the TV,” Petersen says. “My hands have to do something or else I get very bored. I cannot sit still.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Petersen doesn’t design the animals from scratch—instead using patterns from Revelry and Etsy as jumping off points—one of the things that makes his zoo so appealing is the child-like joy he injects into each of his creatures. On our walk, when the mild-mannered maker notices a wolf he made has slumped to one side on its branch, he laughs. “Well, that’s okay,” he says. “Wolves are a little bit crooked anyway. You cannot trust them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A crocheted sloth with googly eyes hangs upside down from its tail on a tree branch. Right: Blue, red, pink and purple crocheted crabs sit on the side of a tree branch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-768x451.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-2048x1202.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/weathered-1920x1127.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of Petersen’s tree creatures caught just after a rain shower.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this stage, some of the animals are more weathered than others, and some have disappeared entirely. (“They’re presents to the city, and the city takes them every now and again,” Petersen shrugs.) He is careful to maintain his menagerie as best as he can though. He re-positions and re-attaches older, slipping animals. He relocates ones attached to trees that have died. And he temporarily moves any that happen to be outside homes that are being painted or renovated. He, like the rest of the neighborhood, see the animals as “a little treasure hunt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Diamond Heights animals were simply a quirk of the neighborhood, mostly enjoyed by those that lived there. But during 2020’s prolonged shelter-in-place order, people from other parts of the city started visiting the animals on hikes. They were a fun addition to the teddy bear hunts already happening in many families. And they were a much-needed distraction from the day-to-day stresses of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/octopus-1-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A luminous green, yellow and purple octopus sits on top of a tangled succulent plant. Right: An orange and yellow octopus sits in a tree, its long tentacles extending down the trunk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of Petersen’s octopuses, hanging out in Diamond Heights. \u003ccite>(Huib Petersen/ Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is clear from spending even a small amount of time in the vicinity that the grown-ups of Diamond Heights seem to like the animals almost as much as the kids do. The first time I stopped to take a photo of one—a goofy sloth hanging upside down by its ankles—a passing man stopped and, entirely unprompted, directed me to a tree further up the street. “You’ve gotta go see the monkeys!” he grinned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The monkeys in question were the result of another personal request from nearby children. Two siblings wanted monkeys on the street to represent the four people in their household. Petersen dutifully obliged. “Those kids stole my heart from the first moment I saw them,” he says. So when the children returned with a friend and asked for some crocheted witch’s hats for Halloween, he made those too. Despite offers from parents to pay for his creations, Petersen always politely declines. Instead, he asks people to pay the kindness forward and donate money to charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us back to that request for a koala from the 7-year-old Siena. The note she left outside Petersen’s house had her mother’s phone number on the back. When he reached out to her for more details, he found out that the koala would be for a school project—a secret garden. Siena wanted there to be an animal hidden in the trees there too, just like the ones on her street. Petersen ultimately made two—one for the garden and one for Siena to keep at home. In return, her family \u003ca href=\"https://gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/gifts/Species-Adoptions/Koala.aspx?sc=AWY2104OQ19298A03752RX&gclid=Cj0KCQiAzMGNBhCyARIsANpUkzOujh8LYIheNNthF6BDlXU5ANwtcFUtGE9LNuYy3BXJrt_77ArwGfEaAi7iEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adopted a koala\u003c/a> through the World Wildlife Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13907025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13907025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-800x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-800x597.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-1020x761.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-768x573.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-1536x1147.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM-1920x1433.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-08-at-10.53.26-AM.png 2020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crocheted koalas, one wearing a coral and yellow backpack “for eucalyptus treats,” the other wearing a transparent tutu, “because everyone is happier in a tutu.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jeffrey Tumlin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked if he has any new animals planned for the neighborhood, Petersen pauses, unsure if he wants to spoil the surprise. “I still have a lot of them that I want to make,” he says. “There are grasshoppers at my house. And a praying mantis that I am really interested in making. And a couple of gnomes that I think are very funny. So there are still things coming up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petersen is also planning to make some little monsters for a tree outside a nearby school. He recently made some for the windows of \u003ca href=\"https://imagiknit.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ImagiKnit\u003c/a> as Halloween decorations. So many people tried to buy them that the Castro Street craft store had to start selling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906855\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-800x267.jpg\" alt=\"Pink, green and purple crocheted monsters with big eyes and underbites from the window of Imagine Knit in San Francisco's Castro District.\" width=\"800\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-768x256.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-2048x683.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Imagine-Knit-Monsters-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petersen’s crochet monsters as seen in ImagiKnit. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Petersen himself is modest about his creations and tells me he’s not sure what all the fuss is about. Still, he keeps creating, motivated by his own positivity and community spirit that he sees reflected back in his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Danger noodles. Nope ropes. Slither strings. Whatever you call them, however you feel about them, a few minutes listening to Natalie Reeder talk about snakes might change your perception of them forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Snakes are the ultimate underdogs,” the wildlife biologist says. “They live on the ground, they have no arms and no legs, and a lot of people hate them. But here in Northern California, it’s very rare for somebody to be bit, even by a rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes are very \u003cem>not\u003c/em> aggressive. When you touch them, they’re sort of squishy. They’re a little fat and lazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When not talking smack about the waistlines of rattlesnakes, Reeder is in charge of keeping a close eye on the thousands of garter, gopher, yellow-bellied racer and ringneck snakes that live on a plot of land near the San Francisco International Airport. The 180-acre habitat is owned by the airport and dedicated specifically to providing snek frens with somewhere safe to hang out. (Reeder is purposely vague about its exact location, lest a bunch of annoying humans show up.) The \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about-sfo/environmental-affairs/sf-garter-snake-recovery-action-plan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">snake recovery action plan\u003c/a> was the brainchild of SFO, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Water Board, and a variety of airport consultants. Reeder herself acted as a consultant on the project for “four or five years” before moving into her full-time position with SFO six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preservation project has been working well too. At last count, there were 1,300 San Francisco garter snakes (\u003cem>thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia\u003c/em>, if you’re nasty) living on the property—not bad for an endangered species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903278\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13903278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-800x605.png\" alt=\"A blue and red mosaic depicting the gartersnake, against a green background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-800x605.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-1020x771.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-160x121.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-768x580.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM.png 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tribute to San Francisco garter snakes near the Louis Sutter playground in McLaren Park. \u003ccite>(Johnny Dismal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco garter snakes—easy to identify because of their turquoise and red coloring—are endangered for a variety of reasons. Reeder explains that habitat loss and drought are the primary causes, poaching has historically been a problem, and that domestic cats pose an additional threat on top of wild predators like foxes and raccoons. The snakes’ situation is not helped by the smallness and specificity of region they live in. “They only live on the San Francisco peninsula, a little bit in the far north of Santa Cruz County, and in San Mateo County,” Reeder says. “It’s hard for \u003cem>people\u003c/em> to find places to live in San Mateo County!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reeder loves garter snakes so much, she describes being bitten by them as “really more adorable than it is scary,” and says that it feels more like a sharp scratch than a bite. (Their teeth are “almost flexible” and not designed for chewing apparently). Reeder also harbors a remarkably tolerant view of being deuced on by them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They poop as a defense,” Reeder says via Facetime, live and direct from the field o’ cute fangs. “So almost always, when you handle them, they will poop. And their poop is kind of like bird poop. It’s sort of like a mix of urine and feces. It is not a pleasant smell, but I imagine it tastes pretty bad and would deter a predator from eating them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just defecating garter snakes that benefit from SFO’s little sanctuary either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CT-UObPqcDC/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, there’s definitely more animals out here than I could ever know—especially if you take into account insects and things like that,” Reeder says, noting that the endangered Ridgway’s Rail bird lives nearby. “We’ve also got alligator lizards. A very small number of occasional fence lizards. We have a couple species of salamander—slender salamander and arboreal salamander. We’ve got deer, coyotes, foxes, raccoons, possums, skunks, cats, squirrels. We’ve got Sierra tree frogs and our threatened California red-legged frogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reeder means threatened in terms of their existence as a species. But the red-legged frogs are also regularly threatened by their bunkmates, the garter snakes, for whom they are food. (A snek-snack, if you will.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, they \u003cem>love\u003c/em> the red-legged frogs!” Reeder declares. “They’ll eat any frog that’s the right size though. So, smaller snakes will eat more baby frogs and tree frogs which are smaller, and tadpoles. And then the adult snakes can eat the larger adult frogs. Garter snakes will swim in the water and catch frogs. And if there’s a pond that’s drying up, and there’s very little water left, they like to gather there. Especially if there’s a bunch of frog tadpoles and little baby frogs that are all concentrated in one remaining pool. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Danger noodles. Nope ropes. Slither strings. Whatever you call them, however you feel about them, a few minutes listening to Natalie Reeder talk about snakes might change your perception of them forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Snakes are the ultimate underdogs,” the wildlife biologist says. “They live on the ground, they have no arms and no legs, and a lot of people hate them. But here in Northern California, it’s very rare for somebody to be bit, even by a rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes are very \u003cem>not\u003c/em> aggressive. When you touch them, they’re sort of squishy. They’re a little fat and lazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When not talking smack about the waistlines of rattlesnakes, Reeder is in charge of keeping a close eye on the thousands of garter, gopher, yellow-bellied racer and ringneck snakes that live on a plot of land near the San Francisco International Airport. The 180-acre habitat is owned by the airport and dedicated specifically to providing snek frens with somewhere safe to hang out. (Reeder is purposely vague about its exact location, lest a bunch of annoying humans show up.) The \u003ca href=\"https://www.flysfo.com/about-sfo/environmental-affairs/sf-garter-snake-recovery-action-plan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">snake recovery action plan\u003c/a> was the brainchild of SFO, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Water Board, and a variety of airport consultants. Reeder herself acted as a consultant on the project for “four or five years” before moving into her full-time position with SFO six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preservation project has been working well too. At last count, there were 1,300 San Francisco garter snakes (\u003cem>thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia\u003c/em>, if you’re nasty) living on the property—not bad for an endangered species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13903278\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13903278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-800x605.png\" alt=\"A blue and red mosaic depicting the gartersnake, against a green background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-800x605.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-1020x771.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-160x121.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM-768x580.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-16-at-1.56.25-PM.png 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tribute to San Francisco garter snakes near the Louis Sutter playground in McLaren Park. \u003ccite>(Johnny Dismal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco garter snakes—easy to identify because of their turquoise and red coloring—are endangered for a variety of reasons. Reeder explains that habitat loss and drought are the primary causes, poaching has historically been a problem, and that domestic cats pose an additional threat on top of wild predators like foxes and raccoons. The snakes’ situation is not helped by the smallness and specificity of region they live in. “They only live on the San Francisco peninsula, a little bit in the far north of Santa Cruz County, and in San Mateo County,” Reeder says. “It’s hard for \u003cem>people\u003c/em> to find places to live in San Mateo County!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The first version ran from 1978 to 1990, and while I remember almost nothing about it, it’s one of the shows that formed my general impression of PBS shows when I was young: gentle, calm, funny without a laugh track, and very popular with parents, mine included. And now, as a person older than they were at the time, I have—not for the first time—come around to their way of thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new \u003cem>All Creatures Great and Small \u003c/em>is, above all else, soothing. Not because it is mindless or merely distracting, but because the slice of humanity that it focuses on is a slice taken from the better rather than the worst of what we can be. Is this a lot to ask of a show that adapts stories about taking care of animals in a beautiful setting in 1930s England? Maybe. But for all its simplicity, it has a real and resonant core, in that the drama comes not from external and fanciful circumstances, but from the day-to-day matters of family and work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family here is Herriot, the two Farnons, and Mrs. Hall (Anna Madeley), who takes care of Siegfried’s house, where they all live and where the veterinary practice is located. The first season, which consists of six episodes and the beloved traditional Christmas episode (an idea the UK embraces and American television usually doesn’t, to its detriment), establishes this family with its loving but complicated relationships. The stories are focused as much on mentoring and teaching and caring for people—and the drama and comedy that naturally follow—as so many shows are on harming and forgiving and enabling people. There is something to be said for the realism of television that reminds us uncannily of our worst and most toxic relationships; this is television meant to remind us of the contours of our best ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzFjeQFpro\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As played by Ralph, who gets the rarely-seen “introducing” credit, James Herriot is a nervous but committed young vet who leaves home and family in Glasgow to take one of the few vet jobs that’s open now that the world is turning from horses to cars: the Yorkshire practice of Siegfried Farnon. Siegfried sees cows and bulls, working horses and racehorses, sheep and goats, cats and dogs, and birds and ferrets. He is the vet in Darrowby, and they’re all his responsibility—especially since he tends to toss his assistants in short order. He’s haughty but also dryly funny, and Mrs. Hall’s obvious fondness for him, while it calls to mind a lot of other housekeeper-homeowner relationships of fiction, helps to humanize him. Shortly after James arrives, Siegfried’s ne’er-do-well brother Tristan blows back into town after failing his vet school exams. Siegfried practically raised Tristan from adolescence, so this sets up a dynamic in which if you squint, Siegfried and Mrs. Hall (whose name is Audrey, it will turn out) are the parents, and James and Tristan are the sons: the older one responsible and shy, the younger one brash and charming and prone to screwing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So really, what unfolds is a chosen-family story, with dashes of cute dogs and pregnant cows and an underlying recognition that animals, for many residents of Darrowby, are the most important property they own as well as revered living creatures. The reason a vet in Yorkshire is such a rich well of stories is not only because animals are interesting or they get a lot of weird diseases. It’s because in a farming community, animals are adjacent to wealth, to power, to business, to sport, to families, to children, to making a living. They are adjacent to everything important, so vets know the rich and the poor, the honest and the dishonest. Siegfried’s practice is everything to this community. In fact, one of the best episodes finds James doing his first turn as the vet at the local fair, measuring ponies and judging the pet contest, and it reminded me a pinch—just a \u003cem>pinch\u003c/em>—of the episode of \u003cem>Schitt’s Creek \u003c/em>where the family winds up dancing in the barn. It is about what it means to be joined to a community, with all its joys and frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, unsurprisingly, women other than Audrey who come into the lives of the three men. 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