In 2006 the membership of DCA was polled as to whether the members favored the continuation of testing and the breeding of
LUA Dalmatians.
One further note; the Kennel Club of the United Kingdom had already recorded that three imported
LUA Dalmatians are indeed real Dalmatians and are registered with the Kennel Club.
Unfortunately, opponents of
LUA Dalmatians were able to convince a slim majority of DCA members to vote against any discussion of registration.
Proponents of
LUA Dalmatians felt the time was right to begin discussing how
LUA Dalmatians could finally be integrated in to the general population of Dalmatians - in other words what steps would be necessary for
LUA Dalmatians to be registered with the AKC.
In 2008 a group of
LUA Dalmatians were invited to attend the Nationals so that the membership could see for themselves that LUA's were no different from their AKC cousins.
Since the Dalmatian Club Of America was not willing to discuss registration and gave no indication of when the topic might be opened for discussion in the future, proponents of
LUA Dalmatians decided to approach the AKC directly.
Early in 2010 the committee reported back to the AKC Board with a unanimous recommendation that
LUA Dalmatians should be registered.