Alvarado, TX Show Results

Only Victory showed in Alvarado, TX this past weekend, as there was no major, and Vegas only needs a three point major to finish.  Victory did not place on Saturday under judge Maxine Beam, but he was Select dog on Sunday under judge Roger Hartinger.  He always has a wagging tail the whole time he's in the ring, but he was pretty whiny on Sunday.  The only thing I can figure out for his whining is that he just wants to have fun and play with the other dogs and people.  He wouldn't be furiously wagging his tail, if he was stressed.  All of the judges just love it that he wags his tail as he watches them walk up to him.  We didn't get any pictures of the Alvarado show, but I'm attaching his win photo from the Heartland specialty show, where he was select dog, for a major toward his GCH.

We are so blessed to have such wonderful Dalmatians.  Tonight we were looking at some old videos of when Luke was a baby, and the Dalmatians we had then.  Our very first Dalmatian, Pepper, from 31 years ago was still alive for awhile after Luke was born 18 years ago.  She was playing with her squeaky burger in one of the videos, and our Tattersall Dalmatian, Alex, was in the video, too.  He was such a pretty liver boy, and he absolutely adored kids.  He was never far from Luke, and is in practically every baby picture we took of Luke. I'm attaching one of my favorites of Luke's first Christmas and Alex sitting right next to him.  What memories!  I am so grateful for a wonderful son and the time with these wonderful dogs!

Heartland Dalmatian Club Specialty Show

We had a lovely time traveling to the Heartland Dalmatian Club specialty show.  The leaves were beautiful and the show was lots of fun, very well run, great food, nice people, and great prizes.  Victory won select dog under judge Ann Hearn, for a major toward his GCH and has 17 GCH points.  Vegas won 1st place in open liver bitches under judge Rick Miller.  Here are some really nice show pictures at the Heartland Dalmatian specialty show of Victory (CH Atlantis Wildcat Victory) sired by Argus (GCH CH Paisley Nspird by Broadway) and Read (CH Atlantis' and Read All Over.)  Victory is such a well bred Dalmatian.  In his 3 generation pedigree, there is not 1 dog that is not a champion, and even in the 5th and 6th generation of his pedigree, there are only a few dogs that are not champions.  He comes from a long line of very serious and successful Dalmatian breeding, and is really a wonderful dog.  He is extremely intelligent, bilateral hearing, OFA excellent hips, CERF normal, loves people, kids, horses, and other dogs.  His spotting is outstanding, no ticking, deep rich black spots, tail carriage is perfect, nice bone, nice feet, dark brown eyes, and lovely face and head.