A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life is a secondary quest in .
== Walkthrough ==
On the hilly road just northwest of Drudge, Geralt will come across a lone dog being attacked by wolves.
 Once Geralt remarks on the pack, the dog can die here if you don't interfere fast enough to save it, locking you out of doing the quest. The wolves are also level 9, which can be significant compared to the quest level if doing it early. The dog is pretty strong though and it can actually kill them in one bite, you merely have to keep them occupied so they don't gang up on it.
Save the dog and Geralt will find a key on the dog's collar before it takes off, wanting you to follow it. don't stray too far away here, as the quest will fail otherwise. You'd still be able to loot the chest if you got the key though, just won't get the .
The dog will lead you into Drudge where several bandits will attack you. After defeating them, open the door to the house the bandits were near (right next to the signpost) for 25 and look for loose floorboards using your witcher senses. Pry up the boards and open the chest and read the notes in it to complete the quest. On exiting the house the dog will be gone. Note that while not a relic sword, one of the bandits always has a Bremervoord blade on them.
== Journal entry ==
: When Geralt saw a dog which was clearly someone's beloved pet surrounded by a pack of starving wolves, he could not help but interfere and save the poor animal's life. The wolves slain, he petted the dog to calm it and discovered there was a key sewn into its collar.
: Geralt followed the dog to its owner's home. Sadly, there was no living soul within it.
== Objectives ==
* Follow the dog.
* Defeat the bandits.
* Search the abandoned house using the Witcher Senses.
== Notes ==
* The loot during this quest is entirely fixed. The chest itself will always contain Diary of a Fire Swallower, allspice, arenaria, 10 and a steel ingot, while a sack behind the door has a silver ingot. Even the bandits will always drop the same items, even though only the sword is noteworthy.
* In the game files, there are remains of a "dog collar" item associated with this quest, but it was never fully implemented. It was likely intended as a way to be able to complete the quest even if the dog died.
== Videos ==
File:A Dog's Life- Geralt and Barylka (Witcher 3 - Micro-Quest in Velen)
Category:The Witcher 3 secondary quests
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