The Paisley Breed Of Dalmatian
Paisley Dalmatians are owned by Dave and Sue MacMillan who are located at St. Paul, Minnesota. When Paisley Peterbilt accomplished his championship in March of 1985, he became the 50th conformation champion owned or bred at Paisley. And throughout that same month, Paisley’s QindaBritt became the 30th obedience Dalmatian to have earned a C.D. degree.
Even though she was actually their fourth Dalmatian and third champion, champion Melody Up-Up and Away, more casually known as “Pooka,” is credited with being the proper foundation of the Paisley breeding program, maybe since she is to be found in the background of all but one champion carrying the Paisley name. All of the younger dogs are line-bred on this amazing dog, some of them having as many as five crossed to her in their pedigrees.
Pooka was a liver colored Dalmatian and a multi-Group winner. Her show credits include having been a Top Ten Dalmatian, and she was Best of Opposite Sex at the Dalmatian Club of America Specialty in 1974. But in spite of these accomplishments, it was in the whelping box that her most famous successes were achieved, such as becoming the dam of 15 champions, second in this number simply to her half sister, Champion Melody Sweet, C.D. who exceeded her number by only one, making a total of 16 champions. Adding to her achievement as a producer is the fact that Pooka’s children seem to be following in her trace in this regard, and a number of them are providing basis for other highly victorious Dalmatian kennels.
Paisley is fundamentally a combination of Melody and Watseka lines with the addition of some Long Last and Coachman. Each of these lines has its strong points, and Sue is finding that the blend is giving them the look that they prefer. At the time their breeding program was started, Sue and Dave felt that there was no line that really infatuated the mixture of characteristics that they wanted in their Dalmatians, and they saw no point in line-breeding just for the sake of doing so.
Therefore they started out by doing careful outcrosses attempting to pick up the features they felt they required to add. Even though originally they received significant criticism for pursuing this course rather than the more conservative line-breeding, these outcrosses laid the foundation by bringing in those qualities they had felt they wanted to develop upon, and therefore incorporating them into the developing Paisley lines
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