A reader sends the following from craigslist:

Friends and Neighbors,

I’m desperately asking you for your help.

On Tuesday night at approx. 10:30pm, my chihuahua Freckles was attacked and killed outside of my house on the 2400 block of Tunlaw Rd, NW. in Glover Park.

She was standing on the ledge in my front yard when she was snatched by another dog walking down the sidewalk with its owner. I struggled with the dog for about 20 seconds, but by the time I was finally able to pull her from his mouth, it was clearly too late. When I ran up and took her inside my house, the owner and dog continued on their walk. He didn’t try to restrain his dog, he didn’t try to help me pry her from his dog’s mouth, and he didn’t even bother to wait around, and he’s yet to come back.

I’m asking you for your help in locating this man and his dog. If anyone recognizes the description of this man and/or dog, I am begging you to please let me know.

Owner: Tall, thin, older (maybe 50s or 60s), light colored hair, white man
Dog: Large, between the size of a weimaraner and a great dane. Long, lanky legs, very tall, with a dark colored body and white head.

They were walking southward down Tunlaw Rd, towards Benton St. If anyone happened to see a man and dog who fit that description walking around Glover Park at around 10:30pm on Tuesday, or if you know who they are, or if you see them again, please please let me know. If this dog has already been deemed “dangerous” from a previous attack, then it should have never been out without a muzzle in the first place. If it hasn’t been deemed dangerous, it needs to be. A dog this vicious does not need to be on the streets where it could do this sort of thing again to another animal, or God forbid, child.

I never want anyone to have to go through this. Thank you so much for any and all help. Please reply to the email address above if you have any information. Thank you again.


“FOUND dog — found on Thursday, May 10, on Warder Street in Park View. No collar or tags. Seems a bit scared and frazzled. Call (202) 277-9383.”


“Diesel is a miniature pincher that lives on the corner of 8th and Randolph St, NW. He usually hangs in the front yard and visits with passerbyers. Walking by yesterday the owner said he was taken from the yard sat night around 10pm. That is about all I know though. Oh and the owner has been checking shelters in case he turns up there.”

If you’ve seen the dog please call 202-545-9448.


Thanks to Andy for sending this great video “shot all around Columbia Heights, Adam’s Morgan, 14th St, and U St.”

Incidentally, Wilco is playing Wolf Trap July 17th and 18th – tickets go on sale this Saturday, May 5th.



Photo by PoPville flickr user theupper

Dear PoPville,

I just recently toured a newly built apartment community in D.C. On their website, they had previously listed a non-refundable pet deposit for $500 per pet. Within the last week or so, it now says “N/A.” When I asked the leasing the office, they said that the legal team found out that a deposit like that for pets is ILLEGAL in D.C. I’ve been paying a deposit like that ever since I moved here (when moving to a new place/community)! I tried poking around online to find out about this, but no luck. I really don’t see a great reason that they’d “make it up” since they’re losing a good bit of money by not keeping the fee. What’s up?


“Dear PoPville,

Hi! Just found this dog in Bloomingdale. She is hanging out in U street right now.
Please contact Molly (202-302-2013) or Kevin (202-352-2582) if she’s yours.”



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A reader writes:

“There are 3 or 4 of these signs along 17th st north of U. As a dog owner in the neighborhood, yes, there has been an increase of unscooped poop lately, but I’m not sure a hostile anonymous note is the solution.”

We’ll have to add this to the list of those pushed over the edge. I always suspected it would get political at some point…


Dear PoPville,

Last night I was walking our 2 dogs and one jerked out of my hand after a cat or something in the dark… we drove around for hours calling for her but she hasn’t come back yet.

The dog answers to the name Lady, and was last seen running away from 3rd and Varnum NW heading south on 3rd around 1130pm Thursday night. She is a Rottweiler/Labrador mix and weighs about 45 pounds. She has visible nipples from having pups and a very crudely docked tail thats about 5 inches long with an obvious scar tissue mound and the tip (she was a rescue so we aren’t sure what happened with it). Please call Chris at 703.850.5865 or Eddie at 202.246.3216 if you find her or have any leads. Also, if anyone has any tips on what else we should do, please let us know.


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