Introducing my Spots

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Some of you may recognise my boy from when I posted under a different name, but a few months ago I acquired another, a girly spot this time :)

My boy
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The new girl
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Both together
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What a beauty, they make a very handsome pair and they are really settled together.

Is she spayed or are you going to breed from her? what is her history? is she a rescue?.
 
They are both rescues :) My girl came from from Ireland last xmas, she was rehomed but they were having issues with her and then she came to me a few months ago.
She's not yet spayed, she will be in October.
 
We have a 10 month Dalmatian bitch on the yard, sort of rescue and best friend of little Stafford boy. She is really lovely and is a brown Dalmatian. Not overly blessed with brains which is part of her charm!
 
Both of mine are very bright (Darcey especially so) which unfortuantely means they find their own amusement if I'm not paying enough attention to them :rolleyes: Which was her downfall in her previous home.
 
Wow how brave are you -2 spotties:eek: I've had 3 over the years (not all together:D) but I'm now too old and I'm not sure my sense of humour is still strong enough :) I love them though, they are such characters and so energetic! Hope you have lots of fun with them. Must say she's the spottiest dally I've ever seen and probably lucky to be alive, I know at one time if they weren't perfectly spotted and definitely no spots on tails they were pts :eek: Let us know their progress, which no doubt will be amusing!
 
I think Darcey was probably chucked out as she's a pain in the butt :D I'm assuming she ended up as a stray at 6 months old as she was an unsold puppy (probably because of her markings) and in Ireland you have to have a license for dogs.

Cooper was taken into a vets to be pts as he had an inguinal hernia. :(

I must say I was slightly offended by a woman on the breed stand at crufts who said 'oh' and then started talking to someone else when I told her my boy has a patch. :( I have a soft 'spot' for the mis-marks. :D

You def need to have a sense of humour with them, and they are very different to my last boy and the other 2 dogs we have (border collie and a working type springer) but I def think I'm a Dally person now :D
 
Not sure if its a sense of humour you need or whether its a mild form of lunacy to have them!!

I currently have two (one is deaf) and also an English Bull Terrier and the bully is definitely the easiest of the three.

They are strangely addictive though................

I'm sorry to say that your lovely Cooper would probably have been put down at birth by alot of Dalmatian breeders as they don't like patches at all. Many years ago we bred a litter from our bitch and the stud dog owner was incensed that one pup had a patch and wanted us to put him down but as we had always planned on keeping one from the litter we just kept him and he was a really lovely dog.
 
I think at one point both of my 2 would have been pts (and they both nearly were, Cooper because of his hernia, and Darcey because she ended up in a pound in Ireland) but thankfully breeders seem a little more educated these days on genetics (well the ones I am aware of are).
 
So are Dalys normally bright dogs ? my friends dog is more like Goofy and thinks she is still a small puppy. She is also one of the kindest dogs and matches my staffies for sheer high energy. The only time she comes to grief is trying to follow her best friend ( middle boy Stafford ) under electric fences or horse boxes...
 
Dalmatians are very bright, they often get called stupid or un-trainable because they are too bright for their owners ;)
My 2 are still very puppy-ish they sound like they are trying to rip each other throats out when they play as well
 
Nasty old fashioned breeders putting beautiful poopies to sleep... :( I think yours are both stunning&look like best buddies-what a lovely, happy thread:) Well done you for rescuing them.
 
jodie3 said:
I'm sorry to say that your lovely Cooper would probably have been put down at birth by alot of Dalmatian breeders as they don't like patches at all. Many years ago we bred a litter from our bitch and the stud dog owner was incensed that one pup had a patch and wanted us to put him down but as we had always planned on keeping one from the litter we just kept him and he was a really lovely dog.
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Yes and the breed standard is to keep the spots not running into each other, but nowadays people don't care but really if they are KC registered the whole point of it is to keep the standard. so long as they arent bred from I don't see the problem. Patch dogs are cheaper than the others. There was a terrible example of a patch bitch bred a massive amount of puppies in one litter on the news I think last year. I just thought you wouldn't breed from it as soon as I saw it.
 
You can have beautifully bred KC registered crufts show quality parents and they will still produce patched puppies.
Unfortunately it's this type of thinking that has lead to the downfall of the breed, breeding from a small number of the gene pool and breeding for spots has given the breed genetic health conditions (urinary stones and deafness).
 
Wasn't there a rather crazy lady who was spot mad and she bred from a lot of patched and mis-marked Dalmatians and also some with rather suspect temperaments?

She was often on TV and in the papers as everything - walls, roofs,clothes - was spotty?
 
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