So I am thinking on a third dog to add to my family (first two being Siberian huskies) and am starting to research Dallies as a potential candidate.
I have a general picture of their personalites... similar to the husky: stubborn, high energy, can be challenging to train but done consistently using posertive methods they come along nicely?
So basically I am looking for Dal people to fill me in on anything you think is a MUST KNOW before someone aquires this breed.

One of the main reasons I am thinking Dal is that I LOVE the personality of the husky but the no off lead rule can sometimes be a challenge, so a dog who has a similar personality but the potential to be trained to go off lead is appealing... any thoughts on this from the people on the know?
Also can't seem to find any consistent info on what their like in the house? I know they have guard instincts, does this mean their "on alert" to the tinest noise? (Living in a very family oriented neighbourhood ignoring alot of random noise is a must for dogs in my house!) How noisey are they? Are they a breed who likes the sound of their own voice and will bark just for the fun of it?

Just at the begining of my quest for info and a long way off from the getting of the dog so taking my time to ensure its totally right before going there... have considered fostering to gain more understanding as I do foster for husky rescue at the moment, so being able to help dally rescue and further my knowledge of the breed deffinatly seems like a good idea?

Having had them since 1973 I think I know a little bit about dals! They can certainly go off-lead - in fact my Daisy has the best recall I've ever known in any dog of any breed; a blast on the whistle and she immediately returns at full speed. Daisy is also the noisiest dal I've ever had; she's very much on the alert and reactive to noises outside, but my others have been almost mute; perhaps because they were reared in a noisier household (when our son was young and had his friends round all the time) whereas he's left home now so it's just hubby and me.

A major downside of them is their short hair which they shed constantly and it's the very devil to remove from clothing!

Fostering for Welfare would be an excellent 'trial run' as it were! :-D

Fur is no downside to me, having huskies I already look somewhat like a dog myself especially when wearing black!
Great to hear that they CAN be quieter and that the recall is a go, I also use a recall whistle to train my huskies (in enclosed parks only) so that should be easily achieved.
Yes deffinatly liking the fostering... just got to find a home for the current foster dog! LOL! Hes very sweet so dont think that will be too long to achieve.

Do you know of any specific Dal rescues I could look up for potential fostering?

I do indeed :-)

You didn't ask about health problems peculiar to Dals.  A trainer where we do Rally is a Dal breeder and in conversations I've heard about their urinary stone formation problem.  Maybe this has been eliminated by now?  With the introduction of the gene from the Pointer?  Too soon for that to have worked?

I did come across this some years ago:  Neutering, With Implications for Dalmation Stone Formers

The problem of urate stones is controllable - the pointer gene still has a long way to go before it has any real effect on the breed as a whole, in that I believe there are now about 50 dals in the country with the 'normal' gene but not all of them will be bred from and there are none with the bilaterally-normal gene. The vast majority of dals, even without the normal gene, never have problems.