I have had a Sparkie and a Nugget and now: Patches-any double meaning? She is a little 2 yr. old now 8.2 pound: Half Shih-tzu and half-who knows. Mostly white with reddish bandit eyes and ears and big spot on her side: Then little plump patches (like a field of weeds) on her top rear half and same type of patches on her hind lower legs.

Had her sister who had black where Patches has reddish color (gave to a neighbor in childhood to help her with psyco problems-it worked) and I had half the work of poddy training. Trained to blue training pads.

So, I look at my little 'field of weeds!' One word of caution though: Never bake with budder and let your dog lick the brownie batter off your finger! The guilt of it will kill you!

No one has ever realized the double meaning in my critters names! Well, except 30 years ago when I had a little boy cocker I named buster and a year later a little girl I named cherry: But, she was that color! PR