The Saturday morning before the storm hit, her mother drove out to Hartford to weather the hurricane — and brought along Patches, the seven - year - old white Mutt - i - gree with gray patches of fur whom her family had adopted from Animal League America as a kitten. (animalleague.org)
Dogs with the Merle gene typically have irregular beige or gray patches in the base color of their fur, creating a brindled or patchy effect across the whole body. (thehappypuppysite.com)
Every person, animal and ant went in desperate search for shade, those occasional gray patches of mercy carved into the white of everything. (bookbrowse.com)