A 10-year-old dog owned by a Steamboat Springs family died Sunday morning of a bullet wound suffered a day earlier in a residential neighborhood on the city’s west side.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident.
“As far as what we know now, someone shot the dog with a .22 (-caliber gun),” Steamboat Springs Police Department Officer Evan Driscoll said Sunday.
Conestoga Circle resident Leah Arnone said she let Duke, a black Labrador retriever, outside at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday. She said her husband, Pat Arnone, usually walks Duke in the morning but was volunteering Saturday with ski events at Howelsen Hill. Leah said because she was still in pajamas, she decided to simply let Duke out, a situation she called a “fluke.”
She said Duke wandered down the street and through an opening in a fence into the Indian Trails neighborhood, where he apparently was shot.
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