Seldom Bites by Catie Cook is a standing floor sculpture featuring a life-sized Dalmatian painted onto a custom cut wood panel, merging sculptural presence with the artist’s highly detailed figurative painting style. The work isolates the spotted dog against a minimal backdrop, emphasizing the animal’s posture, expression, and sharply rendered coat pattern through Cook’s careful attention to realism and surface. Drawing from visual languages tied to pedigree culture, presentation, and staged identity, the sculpture transforms the Dalmatian into both a decorative object and a symbolic character within Cook’s broader exploration of performance and femininity. Through its freestanding format and clean silhouette, Seldom Bites expands the artist’s theatrical visual world beyond traditional painting into contemporary sculptural installation.