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Brittany

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Home:Madison, WI

Sex: Male Weight: 26-50 lbs

Dogster stats for Patches


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Leave a bone for Patches

Nicknames:
Patchie, Buckles, Buddy

Doggie Dynamics:

Energy

sleepy		energetic

Intelligence

silly		genius

Friendliness

aggressive		affectionate

Playfulness

not playful		very playful

Disposition

anxious		calm

Quick Bio:

-purebred

Likes:
playing in the snow and making trails in it, running in the house after being wet or outside for a while, sitting on the couch, loving!

Pet-Peeves:
nothing!

Favorite Toy:
socks, and stuffed animals (He liked stuffed animals that he used to chew the eyes off of them. One time, my dad was on "poop patrol" in the back and found a bit of it starring right back at him!)

Favorite Food:
human food. He was on a special lamb and rice diet, so he got really excited when there was any meat around ever!

Favorite Walk:
he liked walking anywhere. He also loves car rides. Anywhere.

Best Tricks:
he could sit, and go. His "tricks" mostly consited of loving his humans and being a very good friend to them all.

Arrival Story:
I adopted Patches with my brother and my mom when I was wee. My dad wanted a cat, but we all wanted dogs. We went to the pound, but struck out lots. One day, we found an add in the paper about some Brittany Spaniels for sale, so we went to the farm to check them out. They were all puppies, and SO so so so cute! Patches immediatly took to my brother, and we ended up taking him home. Since he was so close to my brother, we let him name him. I remember it being between Freckles or Patches... but I strongly incuraged my bro not to name him Freckles. I felt it sucked. The ride home was long seeming, but it was so very cute to have him there! He just fit inside a little box in the back seat between my brother and I. He deffinatly didn't last that size for long, since that's the only memory I have of him being little. The next memory I have of him is giving him a walk... so to speek. He dragged me all the way down my block! And tore my favorite pants in the process! (don't worry, they were styrup pants with hidious flowers.)

Bio:
Patches was the sweetest dog in the entire universe. No joke. Everybody loved him SO so so so much! (and still do!) he used to cuddle with me in bed, and come to me durring big thunderstorms. He was my best friend and I miss him! even annoying things like how loud he was when he cleaned himself, or when he used to sleep with his butt in my face, and steal my food, or eat sticks of butter off the table.... or how crazy he got when he got out of the house! He used to run around like a crazy ferret, and one of us would take the house keys to jingle, the other a slab of meat, and in an excited way, say "patches! patches" until he would get excited about the things we were doing.

I've Been On Dogster Since:

September 10th 2005