Pitbull Attack Claims SR Staffer’s Dog

The Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service is investigating a deadly attack by two pit bulls on another dog near Chase Middle School. Spokesman-Review photographer Dan Pelle was walking Koko, his 11-year-old Australian Kelpie-Spaniel mix, in an open field near his South Hill home. The field is at about 32nd Avenue and Havana Street, just a couple blocks northwest of Chase Middle School. Pelle has walked Koko off-leash in that field for 10 years, and said he knows many other neighbors and their dogs that do the same. However, at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Pelle saw two teenagers with two fawn-colored pit bulls he didn’t recognize standing about 30 yards away, he said’ Kaitlin Gillespie , SR. More here. (Dan Pelle photo, of beloved pet Koko)

• DFO: I was once knocked down and bitten by a Rottweiler who attacked my dog, Cosmo, while we were walking along 9th Street in Coeur d’Alene. Fortunately, I was the only one who suffered a wound. My deepest sympathy to photographer buddy Dan Pelle.

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