Ravin Dalmatians

12/30/2025

12/30/2025

12/30/2025

12/30/2025

07/09/2025

THANK YOU-to Debbie Bennett, Linda Daly, Bob and Lois Wilthew, Beverley Rutherford, Kevin West, Tana Rugg, Syd Marx, Marie Zimmerman, Barb Morris, Carol Capri, Dennis and Michelle Collingwood, Bev and Terry Brown and Vicki Eckard for all of your amazing generosity in supporting our local dal specialties and helping to make them happen!! We are so thankful.
There are still some trophies left to sponsor. And entries close soon!!
Angie Henderson, Susan St John Brown, Stephen Cabral, David Miller and Cindy Stansell, a taco bar with margs-come join the fun!!

The Greater Denver Dalmatian Club needs your support. Please consider donating a trophy to assist in our hosting our annual specialties in August. Please email [email protected] for the link to the google sheet. Thank you!!
Thank you so much to all who have donated so far including most recently Debbie Bennet and Bev and Terry Brown!!

02/23/2025

Astrid X Jester kids
5 weeks old

02/21/2025

Astrid X Jester kids4.5 weeks old

02/20/2025

10/27/2024

Credit: Black Kraken K9!

10/27/2024

Why does a purebred puppy from a reputable club breeder cost so much?

1. Health Testing on Sire and Dam
2. Routine Veterinary Care
3. Breeding Costs. Progesterone Testing, Stud Fees, Brucellosis Testing, Travel to and from. TCI, Frozen Semen, Chilled Semen, Shipped Semen
4. Quality Puppy Food and Supplements
5. Whelping Supplies (boxes, pens, toys, expendables, supplements, other containment)
6. Vet Checks for Puppies, Vaccines, Dewormers, Microchips
7. AKC registration and Microchip Registration
8. My time. It takes about a week of my time arranging the breeding and to raise the puppies until 8 weeks that is a minimum of 1500 hours of work and effort.
9. Puppy kits, printed materials, and health information.
10. My time spent educating owners and continuing to give advice for the life of the dog.

I won’t include the club memberships, championships, travel to shows, advertising, hundreds of hours of time spent promoting purebred dogs. I won’t include missed vacations, sleepless nights, very high repro vet bills, missed breedings, c sections, singletons, or bad luck. All expensive and we do it for no other reason than to preserve our breeds.

If I hear another person say they are just looking for a pet and not a showdog then my advice to them is go ahead and buy a car with no warranty, no manual, no VIN or registration and the odometer is broken. Good luck with that. I hope you have a good trainer and good insurance. Most of what we produce are just pets. Loved cherished companions that go to carefully screened homes. it is only the exceptional ones we breed. That therein lies the difference.