Well, here we go on Patience. Patience was a stray that I found last July. She was as close to starved as I have ever seen an animal to be. She is a Shepherd. She was seen by my mother about a month before I found her so she was on the run for a while. She had recently had a litter. I assume she came out of the woods because they all died. Her teeth are very bad. Some of them didn't grow in. I'm assuming she didn't have the proper nutrition. Her four long ones in the front are all chipped. She is around two now. Her first year must have been poor hell. When I brought her home, she did the dive into the carpet because I don't know what it is thing. She literally jumped on top of the counters and tried to get up on them to get food. It was quite evident she had never been inside a house before. We had a long road to travel with her but it was well worth it. She is a Godsend.