We raised Rocco (2020) the Red and Raven Violet (2023) from puppies. Spike's early months remain a mystery. He was rescued off the side of the highway in North Carolina and fostered for several months by a lovely family who simply called him "Dobie," short for Doberman. They didn't have any other large dogs to play with, just a little Feist mix, several cats and a small child. Early on Spike learn
ed how to wrestle gently with small friends, which came in handy when he was adopted by the Outlaw family and joined their pack of rat terriers and medium size rescue dogs. As soon as his father, Jason, adopted him from is foster home, he brought Spike to Outlaw Pottery to meet his wife, Rosalie, and her pottery students. They then embarked on a business road trip to Olympic Kilns in Georgia. Thus Spike began his life as a working dog. He accompanies his human parents to Outlaw Pottery & Art Studio, School, Gallery and Supply daily, where he warms the hearts of the art customers and pottery students. Spike's favorite type of humans are little girls. They seem to gravitate to him just as quickly as he gravitates to them. When he is not working, his past-times include running and wrestling at Lori Wilson Dog Park in Cocoa Beach, hunting lizards in his backyard on Merritt Island, fetching empty Dr. Pepper bottles in the backyard, and having staring contests with the heron that fishes from the neighbor's boat dock. Spike is known as a LOVER BOY, as well as a trusty protector.
