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High Springs Herald - that were saved just after their ears were tagged and they were about to be sent to auction for slaughter. Fang is a Dalmatian Photos By Brad McClenny The family plays with “Kong,” a newly rescued puppy. Read More

Boston Globe - These are games such as Nintendogs, in which you raise and train your own digital puppy, and the hypnotic Electroplankton This week Nintendo will also release a limited-edition version of Nintendogs, called Dalmatian & Friends, that lets you chose Read More

Slate - Every time 101 Dalmatians is re-released, there’s an attendant spike in Dalmatian registrations, even though the breed is very This practice lowers the price for a puppy, which also helps speed the breed’s adoption along. A breed’s popularity Read More

Slate - The cuddliest animals (Dalmatian puppies) are threatened with the most horrible fate (clubbing, skinning, being turned into fur It is far better to torture a human being than to allow a single puppy to come to harm. In the end, the Dalmatians and Read More

Slate - So deep is this need that she and her husband spent years with their epileptic Dalmatian on the end of the bed. The dog Now Nancy has a Jack Russell terrier puppy. The puppy spends the night burrowed deep under their covers, attached to Nancy Read More

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Myrtle Beach Online - In the process, bumblebee-ear headbands fell off and ballerina tutus slipped down and tangled up the hind legs of a couple of dogs. Myrtle Beach resident Ginny Soto attended with her grandsons and their dog, Shelby, a 12-year-old Dalmatian, for the
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ANIMAL shelterS
Free Lance-Star - Lody, Labrador-pit bull mix, spayed female, energetic, good with other dogs. Maverick, Labrador-shepherd mix, neutered male, kennel trained, active. Mercedes, Dalmatian, spayed female, senior, loving, gentle, smart. Nutmeg, Rottweiler-Australian
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Slate - Take my friend Nancy, who has slept with dogs since girlhood. So deep is this need that she and her husband spent years with their epileptic Dalmatian on the end of the bed. The dog regularly woke them in the middle of the night, in midseizure
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High Springs Herald - NEWBERRY — Four goats, five dogs, five horses, ten cats — and a beauty pageant. Farm animals and beauty seemingly don’t that were saved just after their ears were tagged and they were about to be sent to auction for slaughter. Fang is a Dalmatian
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UK game charts: November 5-11
Gamespot News - Dalmatian & Friends, up six places to 21, perhaps inspired by the trainable Nintendo plush dogs seen for sale at counters in UK game shops this week. The biggest downward mover of the week was Neverwinter Nights 2, down 24 places to 38. There are
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Dalmatian Dog Behavior: Castration Information

Most owners of Dalmatians favor castration when they understand the role of testicular androgens in their dog’s behavior. The fact that secondary sex characteristics are not profoundly affected by castration is reassuring to those who fear it might feminize their Dalmatian dogs. Many are also reassured to learn that the adrenal cortex produces gonadal androgens and tends to take up the “slack” created by castration. In behavioral terms relevant to the owner’s concern, this means that castration of a mature dog will not cause it to revert to puppy behavior, become sissified, or run from a burglar.

When interviewing a local veterinarian, we came across one owner who called in to complain that her 10-year-old Sydney Silky Terrier was engaging in marathon copulation with her 1 1/2-year old Silky female, who was then in heat. The client’s fear was that the dog might die of a heart attack due to the furiousness of his sexual activities. The vet asked if she had considered castration and was told that this had been performed when the dog was 2 years old in an effort to stop his leg-lifting in the house (which had not abated). The vet advised the client to have the female spayed. This was done and at least the sexual problem was solved. Correction of the household urination required a 6-week I behavior program.

When supported by remedial behavior programs, castration may help alleviate habitual running away or roaming, fighting (other males), house urination and sexual mounting. Pre-existing problems that may persist or become intensified after castration without behavioral programs include aggression toward owners, children or outsiders, fighting with female dogs, and fecal house-soiling.

In a recent study, three of fifty-seven male dogs with various problems castrated at 2 years of age found the following:

* Aggressive toward, or fear of strangers: No significant improvement.

* Urine marking, mounting, roaming away from home: 25- 40% of the dogs cut their unwanted behavior by 90%; 60% of the dogs did so half as often.

* Aggression toward family members: Fewer than 33% showed a marked improvement.

* Aggression toward other family dogs and outside dogs, and territorial aggression and fear of inanimate objects: 35% of the dogs showed a 50% improvement.

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Dalmatian Behavior: 5 Ways To Avoid Accidental Sexual Excitability In Your Dog

When it comes to Dalmatian’s behavior based on natural reflexes, there is one subject that is not discussed much. And that subject is the tendency of pet dogs to initiate sexual behavior and/or to respond with sexual arousal or overt sexual behavior to certain physical or social stimulation from the owners.

Of course we lover our pets and want to make them happy by giving them attention, especially physical petting and rubbing. Not only does your dog love getting stroked by its owner, but this also creates pleasure for us as well. Unfortunately, you may be causing some excitability and sexual frustration because of this. Following are some stimuli about which few owners are aware, but which can sexually excite dogs:

1. dogs that are roughhousing with other Dalmatian dogs, children, or adults can excite dogs to the point of getting sexually stimulated.

2. Rubbing or petting your dog on the chest and between the forelegs is another way that can lead to your dog getting inadvertently sexually excited.

3. Prolonged petting or playful bumping on the sides of your dog’s neck, above the shoulders, below the ears, or on the throat is another behavior that you can stop which may be exciting your Dalmatian.

4. Prolonged scratching beside the base of the tail when it causes a lateral movement of the tail, in both intact and spayed females.

5. Physical stimulation of the genital region of either sex, as during bathing.

In roughhousing, a dog usually begins precopulatory clasping with the forelegs, nose-bunting or mouthing, or sexual mounting with pelvic thrusts.

Most dogs respond affectionately to the petting, scratching or playful bumping mentioned, without initiating overt sexual behavior. However, when it is prolonged, some dogs may attempt precopulatory “nudging,” display penile erection, or even persistently and aggressively mount people.

Usually the responses stop when the owner stops the stimulation. But the side effects of such handling are seen in various sorts of behavior, such as whining, renewed approaches for petting and attention, and extreme (or mild) anxiety when left alone or ignored by the owner and not surprisingly, aggression toward other people in the area, either immediately or later. Owners rarely associate this delayed aggression with their frustrating extended petting or naive sexual stimulation of the Dalmatian, so it is generally labeled as protective.

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Forbes - When the Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people ) released the live-action version of 101 Dalmatians in November 1996, countless parents heedlessly ran out and bought Dalmatian puppies as Christmas gifts for their kids. Cute
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ANIMAL shelterS
Free Lance-Star - Mercedes, Dalmatian, spayed female, senior, loving, gentle, smart. Nutmeg, Rottweiler-Australian shepherd mix, spayed female, loves to play ball, good with other dogs and kids. Paco, foxhound, neutered male, mellow, loves attention. Ryan, pit bull
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Weeds: Fire s lasting legacy
Independent Record - She was fighting an invasion of dalmatian toadflax, a tough, fast-growing weed that looks deceptively like the garden-friendly yellow snapdragon. You can t let them grow, she said. You can t. Our cattle already are competing with the deer
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Croatia’s Adriatic pearls from $20/night
MSNBC - Dalmatian sunshine for $2,499 The best-value summer fling to Croatia is currently on offer by Gate1Travel: the escorted 10-day Dalmatian Coast escapade for just $2,499. In addition to air from New York, known to run over $1,500 during summer months
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