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Dog Attack Friday Night in Woodley Park

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Monday, October 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM · 1 min read
Dog Attack Friday Night in Woodley Park — PoPville DC, Marco Island Government news
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Dear PoPville, I wanted to pass this on since you had recently posted about the pitbull mauling of the retriever at the Petworth metro. This attack happened Friday night around 6:30-6:45 pm in the 2600 block of Connecticut Avenue in my neighborhood of Woodley Park, with an unattended brindle gray pitbull tied up outside to an umbrella table. My husband was walking with our two beagles and the pit dragged the umbrella table to lunge several yards and bit the smaller beagle in three places. Thankfully my husband was able to get the dog off of her (forced his elbow onto the pitbull’s neck and the dog let go) but the owner came out of Nando’s and sauntered up the street with his pitbull. The dog’s owner ran away with the dog on Connecticut Avenue. Three National Guardsmen nearby came to help my husband and our dogs. Our dog has a puncture would and is being monitored at the vet. My husband also has wounds. We filed a police report and they came to our home. Our other beagle was in dist

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