Marshal was actually my dog, Karolyn (Kar-Lynn). I had wanted a Dalmatian for as long as I could remember. I remember the day my parents brought him home. I was in the 8th grade and had come home from school. I saw my dad sitting in the truck and I was wondering what he was doing just sitting there. He had called me over. When I walked to the driver door, sitting in his lap was a little spotted dog. How cute I thought, and asked "Who's dog is that?" My dad told me he was mine. From that point he became my baby, my pain in the butt.