I feel so sad that you only got 7 months with this beautiful little lowrider. Yet, like you said, happy that you got the 7. He's absolutely adorable. You mentioned you were looking for a female to breed with Patches and I saw Hercules. I had to see him. I had one just like him when my boys were little. My boys couldn't say Dachshund. They'd Dotsun. That was the year Datsun vehicles changed their names to Nissan so I named the puppy Nissan. His paper name was Rusty Nickel. I'll never get another Dapple because of him. To many memories and I'll never be able to find like him. I know I shouldn't be that way but I loved him an awful lot. I feel the same way about fawn colored long-haired Akita's. Shoot... lol... and some mutts that look like ones that I used to have. I'm just a big crybaby when it comes to my 4-legged kids. Anyway, I know your in Florida, but if your ever coming up North with Patches, that little lady in the picture above is a Cream & White Piebald Doxie that'll be breedable next year. She's real small (about 8 lbs.).