Kiva

Everyone that knows me knows my love for Dalmatians.  I got my first Dalmatian, Spotted Calamity Jane, from a friend in Sevierville, Tennessee eleven years ago.  People to this day stop me on the beach when they see her, wanting to know if she is a pure bred Dalmatian.  She is almost black with white spots.  I call Cally my “little negative” for those of you in the photography world that understands negatives are reverse images.   I have worked rescuing Dalmatians over the last eight years after the Disney movie unfortunately spawned an over breeding of Dalmatians. My little Kiva is a deaf Dalmatian that I adopted almost four years ago.  She is the smartest dog I have ever had and I have had dogs all my life. She knows a doggie sign language that I taught her and she observes everything including people’s facial expressions.  She smiles from ear to ear when you greet her with a thumbs-up (good girl) and she knows no strangers.  Kiva cannot hear me play my guitar or sing but she enjoys putting her head against my guitar and feeling the vibrations and wagging her tail.  

While going through chemotherapy treatments in my battles with cancer, looking into Kiva’s crystal blue eyes is what kept me going and never giving up.  I always thought in the back of my head what would happen to her if I were not around to take care of her and communicate with her. She is my shadow and is better known than me.  So the only name that I could imagine my company being had to be about Dalmatians and Kiva.  Spotted Kiva Productions was born in July 2003. This will be the home of my CD’s.