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The Owls of the Mesa

Animals By Tyler Hayden

A great-horned owl family is delighting neighbors and visitors.

Santa Barbara’s Pets & Animals

Cover Story By Tiana Molony & Callie Fausey

A love letter to the animals who make life softer, stranger, and better.

Healing with Horses in a Santa Barbara Corral

Pets & Animals By Tiana Molony

Inside the growing practice of equine partnered coaching.

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How a Baby Finch Got a Second Chance

Pets & Animals By Tiana Molony

The Trash Pandas Are Running the Neighborhood

Pets & Animals By Callie Fausey

Doin’ It Froggy Style: Santa Barbara Zoo Creates Critical Waystation for Threatened Species

Animals By Nick Welsh

County Animal Services to Offer Fee-Waived Adoptions for California Adopt-a-Pet Day

Announcement By Santa Barbara County Animal Services

Santa Barbara Foil Surfer Who Filmed Shark Chase Has Run-In with Whales

Community By Callie Fausey

Have UCSB Researchers Come Up with a Solution to the Cape Ivy Invasion?

Animals By Tyler Hayden

Mountain Lion Sightings Reported in Santa Barbara

Public Safety By Jean Yamamura

Fiesta Dog Parade Will Debut in Downtown Santa Barbara

Animals By Tiana Molony

A Nestful of Hope

Birding By Hugh Ranson, member of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society