Akasha (named after Queen vampire in Queen of the Damned) is my Dalmation/Black lab-she is beautiful. I got her 1 week before Thanksgiving last year. I am ridiculous over her. She seems to have mostly Dalmation traits, bad hips, basic body shape (although small for her age) and used to be very jittery, she was afraid of everyone and everything, hard to train. But, we have trained her well and she is a happy dog.