Patch the Dalmatian

Patch the Dalmatian I’m an outdoor loving, water seeking athlete and roadtripper on a constant adventure aith my mom.

11/17/2025

there were MANY highs this weekend, but there was one major low, and i’m still mad / bummed about it so we’re gonna start there.

i’m bummed because it was a stupid mistake, and the game ended early as a result of it. it was a mistake on my part, but one i’m still pretty upset about because i don’t think it was fair, and i still don’t have a good solve for how i could’ve *realistically* approached this differently.

luckily, we’d already done two runs of crazy 8s at this point, so he had played a little, but patchy had been waiting hours in between those runs and this one, and he’s familiar enough with the routine that he knows how it works. you go into the blind, you wait, you play, you get big time snackies for doing your job.

so what happened this time? his leash and collar fell off the fence. that’s it.

you’re allowed to bring your dog in on a hidden prong, but reasonably so, you’re not allowed to drop the prong and leash on the ground the way you can with flat collars and leashes.

normally, there’s a basket at the starting box so you can place it safely into there. this time, there wasn’t one anywhere in sight, so i tried to prop it up on the fence. gravity said “hold that thought” and down went the collar with leash in tow 😞

poor patchy had already caught a scent but the judge said “i’m gonna have to stop you there.” and that was the end of our first senior run this weekend ☹️

i guess it’s better that he did get to find one rat vs. not even having found any yet because i did get to reward him for finding that one before pulling him.

anyway, i’m a little mad that i lost $30 on a run that ended right as it started, but i’m more upset that patch didn’t do anything wrong, but he didn’t get to play his favorite game. (for anyone whose been here a while, patch likes barn hunt more than he even likes fastcat. hard to imagine but it’s facts.)

what would you have done in this situation? any suggestions?

11/07/2025

so you’re telling me that if i always have a mini coffee on me, he’ll always have a perfect heel??!

HECK YEAH!!

energy boost 🤝🏽 dog training… life hacks at their best!

i miss NY and being in the woods and the energy that i know NYC is exuding rn. i feel like it’s been a week with lots of...
11/06/2025

i miss NY and being in the woods and the energy that i know NYC is exuding rn. i feel like it’s been a week with lots of NYish reminders for some reason. is it the full moon?? 🧐

📌 super dog-friendly (Upstate NY)

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11/04/2025

y’all we’re so close!! for the first time in 3 years, we really truly actually committed to the number, and we’re almost there. the goal was to run at least one mile x 100 days in the year.

in my competitive head, pretty sure i said “ain’t no thang, chicken wang!” but in 2023, i think we did between 20-30ish days (i stopped tracking and didn’t use yet), and in 2024, we got close with mileage (90 mi) but still nowhere near 100 days (only 43 🤭). unfortunately, i’m really good at quitting when it gets cold, and patch is stellar at stopping when it’s too hot, so we’re a really solid combo 🫠

anyway, as of today, we’re 76 runs in, and we’ve clocked 162 miles of running! 🤠 with at least 24 more runs to go, i think i’m setting a new goal of hitting at least 200 miles. i probably should, considering i have a half marathon lined up in January and need to stay upping my mileage for that 😅

did you set any big fitness goals this year, running or otherwise? maybe it was just about walking your dog more often or walking up and stretching? if so, tell me all about it so i can celebrate with you! 🥰

p.s. while i may not have hit my goal the last two years, i ran more than i ever had before during each of those two years so ya know what? it was still worth it to try.

doing things with Patch is always going to be my most favorite thing in the whole entire world. doing hard things with h...
11/03/2025

doing things with Patch is always going to be my most favorite thing in the whole entire world. doing hard things with him makes life even sweeter.

challenging ourselves to show up in the best physical and mental shape is out-of-this-world awesome!

we run together often these days— 26 more runs til 100!!— and we’d done two obstacle course races before this one. the first, he sprinted 3.1 miles like it was freaking fastcat, and while i could barely breathe, we rocked the obstacles and somehow won our race. the second (about 6 months later) was an even longer run, and i had to stop him from sprinting about .5 miles in because i really just couldn’t and didn’t want to keep up.

this time, i gave it my ALL. and so did he. the way he PULLED me up hills and didn’t even seem winded!? he crawled through water he would’ve rather run around. he sprinted and jumped and crawled and swam, and his strength and stamina blew me away. he didn’t even show signs of slowing down until the last mile where he was clearly tired of jumping over giant wooden spools 😄 but only the one, and then we were back to sprinting. until we had to crawl through sand, and i may or may not have laid down for a breath and debated taking a nap right then and there! but we were doing so well so I didn’t. I couldn’t.

i couldn’t give up because Patch wanted to keep going.

dalmatians are so incredible. and dogs in general are just so freaking cool 🥹

anyway, here’s some photos from the race () 🤠 i ended up getting mostly high res and one low res - can you tell which one?

📸: c4 pet photography

11/02/2025

you’ll even get to spend more on photos than you do on the race itself! 🤪 but they’re worth it!

still thinking about this race and how much fun we had. somehow it’s been two whole weeks since we drove down to Alabama to be around a few hundred people who are just as nutty and obsessed with their dogs as we are.

.hammond.798 thank you to you and your team for putting this on for us knuckleheads to satisfy a fix!

11/01/2025

these days, i find myself lying on him just as much as he lies on me 🥺

baby patchy was a handful but i’d give almost anything for just five more minutes. and oh the things i’d do over! i knew nothing about anything except that i loved that boy more than life since the moment he was i knew he was him. (that’ll only make sense if you know me and/or if you just get it.)

but big patchy is everything i could’ve imagined and more, and i’ll always want five more minutes with every version of him 🥰

funny thing is, he knows what that means!

10/31/2025

the look of horror and disgust on my face every single time i see p**p left behind, especially when it’s left on the edge of someone’s yard, or even worse— mine! 🫨

…talk about an eerie sight.

**p

10/29/2025

he is that cute though, and that’s just the facts 🥰

10/28/2025

just a few dogs doggin’ 🤠



p.s. and for those who can read the room/tails and find this a little uncomfortable: little black dog actually enjoys engaging with Patch. liver boy is curious but doesn’t love him but always wants to sniff him. usually, he goes back to the front door to sit down while Patch and little black dog play sniffy sniffy for a while.

dope cuz he’s playing with his besties and River, and dope cuz i get to squeeze him in a few hours!what’s everyone been...
10/26/2025

dope cuz he’s playing with his besties and River, and dope cuz i get to squeeze him in a few hours!

what’s everyone been up to this weekend? fun things or life things? i had to run off to FL for a few days, but it was for some *very* exciting life things… so both for me 🤭

no, we’re not moving again. yes, we will be on the road a lot again. these are just the cards we’ve been dealt. amirite?!

10/24/2025

you picked the breed, you get to provide the mental, emotional, and physical stimulation they need to live their best lives. you don’t have to do it all, but you do have to do some of it, and at a bare minimum, you have to try.

so do your research, go get that extra high energy dog… but they’re not just trophies. meet them at their level.

who knows, you may even unlock a whole new world for yourself ❤️‍🔥

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