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Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - The Davis family appreciates the cards and e-mails of sympathy received after the death of Sadie the Dalmatian. Individual responses have been made, except for two. The new dog ate those envelopes with return addresses. Darlene apologizes for that. Continued

Riverside Press Enterprise - More people may want to bring home a beagle after one of the breed won the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog It’s like ‘101 Dalmatians’ — everybody wants a Dalmatian and they haven’t got a clue what a Dalmatian’s going to do Continued

Asbury Park Press - The job fell to Manning, who quickly became enamored with Chips, the Dalmatian breed and the dog show scene. He would continued to train, breed and exhibit Dalmatians until he entered St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. One man’s trash . . . Holy Cross Continued

Focus, Magic Aren’t the Reasons the Giants Are Champions

Washington Post - The best commercial Sunday night, hands down, was the dalmation training the clydesdale to the theme from Rocky in the Budweiser commercial. The funny kid and the talking animal were fine and Ben Roethlisberger singing was very good, but the dog and Continued

Miller Spots a Strategy for Bowl Wars

Wall Street Journal - Miller is calling out the dogs again. Beginning tomorrow and running through the Super Bowl, the brewer will blanket the airwaves with a new Miller Lite ad featuring a Dalmatian, a longtime mascot of its chief rival, Anheuser-Busch . The spot shows a
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Super Bowl ads: Play Monday morning quarterback with us online
Naples Daily News - theme, focuses on a horse that didn’t make the final cut to join the team and took a year to train with a Dalmatian. This He starts laying on the horn, and one by one, the houses light up and dogs start barking. One house stays dark and quiet
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Uno: Belleville’s favorite beagle is coming back to town

News-Democrat - We don’t want people to go out and buy a puppy because of Uno, and then the puppies end up in a rescue in a year.” When the Disney movie “101 Dalmatians” came out in 1996, people were eager to bring a Dalmatian puppy home. A year later, Dalmatian Find Out More

Victoria Times Colonist - Firefighters who arrived as first responders watched on as the ambulance attendants provided first aid and took the boy to hospital. After they left, firefighters gave the boy’s siblings stuffed Dalmatian puppies with fire hats to try to ease the Find Out More

Top dogs claim honors on Westminster’s first night

Newsday - But this year, the canine competition defied that stereotype by mostly being as predictable as spots on a Dalmatian. The first group of the night, the hound group, was taken by the odds-on favorite, Uno, the 15-inch beagle formally known as Champion K
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Who’s Blogging
Washington Post - Coca-Cola balloons (in which the giant Charlie Brown balloon snags the giant Coke balloon); the Budweiser “Dalmatian/Rocky” commercial, in which the dog helps the rejected Clydesdale get into shape. Actually Made Me Gag: careerbuilder.com’s “Heart
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Ad Hoc: Some of the most memorable
Palm Beach Interactive - If you didn’t go, ‘Awwwwww’ watching a caring Dalmatian helping a spurned Clydesdale train Rocky-style to join the famous Budweiser horse team, check your pulse. WORST COMMERCIAL WITH AN ANIMAL ACTOR: The big black dog lapping up Gatorade like it was
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Fire destroys Weaverville home
Asheville Citizen-Times - Brookshire managed to save his pet Dalmatian, which he found just inside the front door. He bought the house in 2006 and had renovations under way.
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U.S. stocks lean lower at start
CNN Money - Its commercial for its Budweiser brand that featured one of the brewer’s trademark Clydesdales being “trained” by a Dalmatian came in as the most popular in online polling on one site measuring Super Bowl ad popularity. Archer-Daniels-Midland ( ADM ,
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It’s showtime for some amazing dogs

San Jose Mercury News - While Christman said she shows dogs as a hobby, Rochin is a breeder and has shown Dalmatians at the Golden Gate Kennel Club show since 1991. The “bench” part of the show offers a great opportunity to learn the truth about the breed, she said. “There Find Out More

MetroTimes - Like Roger in 101 Dalmatians .” His new post-Gin Blossoms songs were evolved a true embarrassment of riches. They had redemptive qualities, full story-driven narratives and complex truths told simply. All had his signature hooks. I heard a few Find Out More

Orlando Sentinel - Students will present Disney’s 101 Dalmatians Kids at the end of the session in May. All classes will meet in the recreation department at City Hall, 800 N. U.S. Highway 27, beginning Wednesday. To register or for more information, visit caponimusic Find Out More

Cumberland Fire Station One of Few That Still Has Dog

WRAL - Fayetteville Spanner the Dalmatian trots around Pearce’s Mill fire station, sniffs a couple of visitors and, giving them her tacit OK, goes about her doggie business. “This is her palace,” said Chief Ronnie Marley. “This is her home. She rules Continued

San Luis Obispo Tribune - Click any image to enlarge. E ve Good, a volunteer at Animal Services, sent me a story about one of the shelter s long-time residents: A young Labrador retriever/ Dalmatian mix came to Animal Services last September, Good wrote. Shortly Continued