PHOTOS: San Francisco pet ban
Jennifer Grafelman, general manager of the Animal Connection pet store in San Francisco, displays a fuzzy chinchilla. She and others are fighting a proposal that would ban sales of any animal with fur or feathers. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Two small hamsters make use of their exercise wheel. Officials with the city’s animal services agency say hamsters are euthanized at a greater rate than any other animal. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
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If the proposal passes, San Francisco residents will have to visit another city to buy birds like this blue mountain lorikeet, or find shelters or rescue groups where they could adopt. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Eggen holds a guinea pig as another volunteer sits with a rabbit. The animals were abandoned at the city-county animal shelter at 15th and Harrison streets. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
