Your Waggly-Good Waltham Mutt Stories

In anticipation of National Mutt Day, celebrated on July 31 each year, Patch asked readers to submit their stories and photos of their adopted mutts.

We’re sharing the feedback here, and will update with your wonderful tales as they come in. We’d love to hear from you. Put you pet in the spotlight by emailing charlene.arsenault@patch.com.

Photos No. 1 and 2: Randy is a lively, lovable mutt who loves to give paw and get belly rubs, and was adopted by Regina M. Pacitti, a Justice of the Peace in Waltham. “He was was adopted in April, 2011, right after I retired from the Waltham Public Schools, and he is the love of my life! He came from a program in Florida called Dawgs in Prison, at which every eight weeks the inmates in a forestry camp are given dogs to train and then the “class” is put up for adoption on their website. Randy is part labrador and part golden retriever and his black tongue is chow. His personality is totally lab and he is a “velcro dog.” He still follows his commands and loves especially to give paw. He has never given me one bad moment in all the time he has been with me. He does not get up on the sofa but has made my bed his bed. Many of my neighbors in the Warrendale area know him from our walks.”

Patch will update this page with additional stories and photos.