Zeke is a Brittany, a kind of spaniel and his owner Paul got him just over 7 years ago as rescue dog from a breeding kennel that was defunct. Zeke was on PetFinder in Whatcom County through the Alternative Humane Society of Whatcom County. "It was this breeding kennel that some guy had with Brittanys outside of Ferndale and I guess he abandoned it. His wife or girlfriend called AHS and told them she couldn't handle the dogs. They were all chained up outside, in December on separate posts. They couldn't touch each other and they had a little plastic barrel to get inside."

When they went to retrieve the dog, "We drove up to this loud braying of dog barking and everybody went home with a dog that day."

"We were driving home and his name came to me. He just looked like a Zeke," Paul said.

"They hunt birds," Paul said," but he's here so he hunts squirrels more often. "He likes to point squirrels and it's actually kind of touching because you are on a walk in the neighborhood and it's like he's in the wild. He's stalking something. He sort of creeps up on it and flip a paw back and just stand there frozen."

Zeke is a rather indiscriminate eater, eating, "whatever he finds along the sidewalk" , Paul said. "There's a lot of little surprises that you might not notice unless you had a dog like Zeke who will eat an old sandwich that's sitting on the sidewalk, even soggy ones."

His active chewing habits also account for the fact that his dog toys are always in a state of disrepair. "He's got a stuffed chicken and a stuffed squirrel, he has a goose and they are all in various states of being ripped apart," Paul said.

In the neighborhood Zeke has become well known because "He goes out twice a week with Butler Pet Services, and she's got a whole pack that she takes to the dog park."

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