Nora and her tree

Nora sure does love christmas time!

JR's Christmas Wish

JR is doing great. He is a happy boy and well behaved (most of the time). We are starting another obedience class in January. Her he is with Santa. I think he asked for dog cookies.


Happy Holidays! ~ Tina, Matt, Katie, Lucy and JR

Jack

Just wanted to give you a quick update on Jack. He's doing great! He is absolutely perfect for our family. It's been a really relatively easy transition for all of us, including him. So, I know it was meant to be that he was to be a part of our family! And, halleluia he is getting along with the cats!! They were all lying on the same bed yesterday. Maybe they are just tolerating each other but Jack is not chasing them anymore. He nudges them to say hello and they don't mind (as long as he doesn't keep doing it over & over!).


We took the dogs to a tree farm to get our tree and they had a blast running in & out of the trees, and he's only torn half the lights off the tree once!

He's just such a sweet, smart dog and we are thrilled to have him.

Thanks again.
Merry Christmas.
Stephanie & Brent

Snow in New Mexico

Here is a photo of Mozart (red collar) & RIngo (blue collar) playing in the snow in New Mexico. We didn't do anything special on Mozart's birthday, but that's because everyday is a special day when you own a dalmatian. ~Bernie & Tim

Cinder the holiday elf

As you can see Cinder is a perfect little elf even though she looks confused about the hat on her head ~ Karen

Round and Round

Hi Deb. Me again with another video on cinder.   Sierra just got home from college and was playing chase with Cinder. They were having a very good time. I personally think that Cinder thinks Sierra is a puppy too! ~ Karen

Cinder's forklift

Hi Deb. I thought you would enjoy this. I was putting up my Christmas houses and was setting up my Lego forklift and Cinder was fascinated by it. ~ Karen

Princess Lilly

Hey Debbie I wanted to give you a quick update on Lilly she has been wonderful to have around and has made herself at home with our family .As far as we know she has had many first and lots of fun with us this last summer camping, boating,swimming (kind of she has a thing about water it her terms only) and geocashing etc. She has been lots of fun and we would like to thank you and Adrian again for helping us find her. I included one of her pictures from feb out in our backyard she really is a pretty girl or princess as my wife refers to her.The rain jacket was my wifes idea. Thanks again The Mix family

Crystal Clear

For Romeo's 4th birthday (Nov. 7th) I decided to get him thoroughly checked for bladder stones and/or crystals. We've never really had him checked and he's never had any problems, but seeing chances are good for a Dal to have crystals in their urine and stones can turn into a life or death situation - it's well worth having a preventative look.  So today Romeo and I spent the afternoon at the vet's office. I'm extremely happy to report that his ultrasound showed his bladder to be completely free of crystals and stones (they also visualized his prostate gland which looks perfect as well). Then they checked his urine sample, which had perfect pH at 6.5, was free of crystals even under the microscope, free of red & white blood cells. His concentration level was on the lowest side of normal (his urine was nice and diluted) at 1010 (normal is 1010 to 1040). So he was 100% as perfect (or at least as perfect as a Dalmatian can be)!! 

Lazy Jewels

Apparently Jewels was too tired to get her entire body up onto the couch tonight ~ this was as far as she made it!

Boys night

Now that Adrian has a new job in Walla Walla, it's a special treat to have him home on a weeknight. The two men of the household had a nice evening watching Monday night football in their favorite positions. (Romeo must not have found the game that exciting seeing he was actually sound asleep in this photo).

Happy boy

Ti had an ultrasound in October and passed. No crystals and no stones. I've decided to have him checked semi-annually. He has a good diet (my own invention) and we make sure he gets 8 cups of water (occasionally less but never less than 6 cups) a day. That seems to be the key in my opinion. We use skim milk to bait his water and add a 1/4 of cucumber to keep his PH up. I hope all is well with you. I attached a recent pic of Ti. He actually fell asleep like this! ~John

Nora's growing up

She's crazy but it sure is fun at the same time... ~ Jeremiah

Dalmatian in need

There's a Dalmatian in need of help near us. Please follow this link and take a look at this girl in a shelter in Idaho Falls. If anyone out there has room in their home and heart, let me know and I can assist in transporting her closer to you. Unfortunately with 6 Dals in our home, we just don't have the room to take her.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DalPals/attachments/folder/779278521/item/1364938440/view

Lola's birthday ball

We can't believe that Lola is 4 already! It seems like yesterday we had a wrinkly little, razor-toothed, gator mouth chasing us around! She enjoyed her birthday very much. She got a new toy and had some time playing her FAVORITE game. Playing with a tennis ball literally makes her a little crazy. You can distract her from anything by saying the word "ball" - what a crazy girl! Someone once told us she might "mellow" after 3...we are still waiting... :0) We always say that she is a "really good dog when she is not being bad!" (the usual: counter surfing, stealing food, barking at us to play, and plain ole stubbornness). She is lucky that we think she is the cutest thing ever!

Thank you so much for allowing us to bring our Lola girl into our family - she is our babydog! We promise we'll be better about sharing pictures and videos... we follow the blog and enjoy seeing how Lola's little "dalmatian quirks" are shared by her entire family!!

Give hugs to the spotted crew! - Krissi, Dieter, and Lola

Lexi's 4th birthday

Deb and Adrian and MAMA Jazz-
Here is our sweet little puppy. Can’t believe it was 4 yrs ago she was born.
We still thank you guys everyday for our sweet Little Lexie Doodle. We enjoy
every single vid and pic on your blog! I am glad we were your FIRST------
Love you guys-  Pat, Lori and Lexie

Olive makes a wave

Olive makes me laugh so hard some times that I just had to share. She usually barks at me and tries to eat the bubbles when I take a bath, but last night she took it a step further and just jumped right in the tub with me. I wrapped myself in a towel and grabbed my camera - hope you think it's as funny as I do. She literally splashed half the water out of the tub. http://www.youtube.com/user/samlneff?feature=mhsn

Izza gets 2 CATs

Izza and I spent the day with our friends Jordan, Krash & Kester over in Kent, WA today. We were checking out a new AKC title: C.A.T. (Coursing Ability Title). It's like Lure Coursing (which is an event they do with sight hounds), but easier. The course for dogs the size of Dalmatians is 600' long and the dog just has to show interest in following the lure and must finish the course within 2 minutes. We did two runs, a few hours apart. Izza's first run took her 1.01 minutes, but her second run (which is what this video is of) took her 55 seconds. She received two of her three "legs" (a leg is a qualifying run), she needs to get her title. We had lots of fun and she got to burn off some energy!

Jack's beach birthday

 Jack's doing great--part of the family!! We took him to the coast for his first birthday (pictures attached)--the dogs had a ball! Jack's doing a pretty good job listening & minding--he's getting better. We finished obedience training last week and we both enjoyed it. He still doesn't want to leave the cats alone but we're working on it. Our Lab Parker has taught Jack how to pick marionberries, plums and tomatoes! They go down to the garden and help themselves!! Have a great day. ~Stephanie

Waverley is growing up!