If you wanna be my one and only

Our home was always full of animals. I think I was one of the few who could say I had a pet goat as well as dog, ducks, goose and a huge white rabbit (the only one that I asked for and got to choose). This particular canine was known as "Patch" he was a Jack Russell cross or should I say more livid than cross. A lot of people kept away from him as he was allegedly very fierce. As you can tell from this photograph of us together he never showed that side of his nature to me. I could take most things from him, well apart from any stray hedgehog he may have caught. If that was the case we all stayed away until we could get close enough to spray him for fleas (something else that made him cross). I never knew him as anything other than a pet, a friend, my little Patch. And I remember my Dad cried for days when he died.