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Homeless Chihuahua Survives Crash

Uno Solo

The Chihuahua huddled in the mangled wreckage of his owner’s van for two days, unheard and unseen. Until Monday. That’s when a Kootenai County sheriff’s deputy found the small dog, named Uno Solo, while re-examining the van at an impound lot. The dog’s owner, Marie-Claire M. Steinkamp, 85, was killed in the crash on Saturday near Hauser that Uno Solo survived. Investigators believe Steinkamp drove her 1995 Aerostar through a stop sign on Prairie Avenue at Pleasant View Road before driving into the side of a semitruck. Officials have been unable to find family members of Steinkamp, who had been living in her van. “We actually went over to the tow yard to do some follow-up with the car and located (the dog) in the wreckage,” Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Stu Miller said. “We had no idea”/Nina Culver, SR. More here.

Question: Hey, Mr., can you spare a home?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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