[Michael.SF.]

Why would any person want to be a Dalmatian? That is just plain nuts. Now a German Shepard or a Doberman, that I can understand.

[Salamander]

Indeed.

[or mayhap a salamander, with a luxuriously long and elegant tail]

:D

[Verginius Rufus]

Nothing wrong with being a Dalmatian. Dalmatia is a pretty country but the people there dress like people in Europe generally.

St. Paul mentions that Titus went to Dalmatia (II Tim. 4.10). Whether Paul got there himself is uncertain. His shipwreck on "Melite" was in Dalmatia if it was on the island of Mljet, but Melite is more commonly identified with Malta (and Pope Benedict XVI backed that on his visit to Malta). Constantine Porphyrogenitus thought that Melite was Mljet, so you can pick between a live pope emeritus and a dead Byzantine emperor.

Of course Paul could have gone to Dalmatia later, after the point that "Acts" ends.

The most famous modern Dalmatians are probably Tony Kukoc and Goran Ivanisevic.