Dan Lukiv

The True Story of Patches (for adults-even some children) Dan Lukiv

An excerpt // If Patches (our springer spaniel) had been a human driving along a desert highway that boasted one roadside tree, he'd have-through genetics?-crashed into it. // Was his breath also a matter of genetics? I mean, the day we adopted him, we discovered that his breath contained all the (DNA-induced?) evils of rotting fish-although we somehow didn't notice that until after we'd taken him home. // You might wonder why we chose him over his also-wiggly brothers and sisters. Well, only he resembled his mother: white with brown patches. And she looked so serene and charismatic. "Won't he follow suit?" I thought.