" Patches Ronald Ricky "
{Pappy}
Dec. 10th 1971 --------- March 15 1988
Beagle Hound Mix
In Loving Memory My Best Friend
Our family got Patches when I was two years old and
my brother and sister were older than I.
The memories I have of our life together with Patches are
still very much alive the love I feel for him still makes me
cry I miss him so much. We got Pappy from the dog pound,
he was six weeks old when we got him.
I remember the day we picked him out while walking to
his cage and him whimpering and licking my fingers.
Pappy was such a Special boy as I got older I started to walk
him on a leash and he would walk right next to me. He was so
careful not to hurt me as we walked he walked so proud.
When anyone else in the family tried to walk him they
would have to put up with him running and not listening.
When Pappy was two My family went to Georgia to visit
our family Pappy was with us he went were ever we went .
We were going out to eat and Patches had been laying under the
car and dad thought he was out started backing out and
knocked his eye out. He was taken to the vet and he said he
couldn't save his eye but that patches could live with one eye
and that is what he did. Patches was not a very good dog when
he was with the vet he wouldn't eat for him so we had to go
and see him while he was there and he was so proud when we
walked in to see him. Patches was very protective of us kids
I remember going for a walk when we were camping and
he saw another dog a Doberman and he went nutty as the dog
got close to me he was growling and ready to fight and didn't
back down from his job as a protector.
As he got older there was one time he got lost for two
days by this time I was around 7 or 8 years old and I cried myself to
sleep and all I could think of was him. On the second day a friend
of mine and her dad and little sister went with her dad to see
his friend about two miles from our house and we were sitting
there and I see this white with one brown ear running toward
us and I jumped up and knew instantly that is was Pappy and
yelled to him to come. He ran so fast and jump into my arms all
I could do was cry happy tears.
There so many memories of him that it take forever to write
all of them. I was like 18 when the time came that cancer had taken
over my best friends body and he was suffering we had to put him
to sleep so he would be out of pain on the day came and
Patches and I took are last walk together down the street and
came back to our favorite tree in front of the house and
was like a puppy again sitting in my lap I feel in my Heart of Hearts he
new that it was the last walk we would ever share together.
I cry even now thinking of it.
I LOVE MY BABY BOY PATCHES RONALD RICKY
AND KNOW THAT SOME DAY WE WILL MEET AGAIN.
LOVE YOU ALWAYS PAPPY!!
Georgia
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