The love affair started innocently enough.We’d been married three weeks when she asked what kind of dog I liked.That was the day I learned one should be wary of off-the-cuff questions as you never know where they might lead.Since I never had a dog growing up - which she thought was an unfair situation for a guy - I said the first breed that came to my mind.It happened to be Dalmatians.How I came up with the dog with an aristocratic lineage, known as carriage dogs, and are dubbed “fire” dogs by some had everything to do with my movie habits or lack thereof. When I saw “Star Wars” in 1977 it was the first movie I had been to since seeing the original Disney “101 Dalmatians” in 1964. In other words dogs weren’t exactly my thing nor were the movies.A month after she popped the question, we dropped by Pastor Marv Root’s home.