Article: Experts warn against the new hot dog -- Dalmatians -- for most families.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

PHILADELPHIA _ Disney-driven spotted fever of epidemic proportions is coming with the arrival of the live-action ``101 Dalmatians'' next week.

Those puppies are cute, cute, terribly cute. Children are going to want the dogs as desperately for pets as Cruella de Vil craves them for a coat. But reputable dog people _ Dalmatian breeders, rescue workers and the ASPCA _ are all telling families the same thing when it comes to the black-and-white pups: No, no, not on your life.

``They can be nippy. They don't get along real well with small children because they're so exuberant,'' said Janet Budzynski, who, with her husband, Stas, runs the rescue ...

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