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For dog lovers, watching Rumor — the German shepherd named best in show this week at the 141st Westminster

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For dog lovers, watching Rumor — the German shepherd named best in show this week at the 141st Westminster<br />Kennel Club Dog Show — glide around Madison Square Garden with her owner was thrilling.<br />And if you decide to hire a professional handler to show your dog rather than do it yourself, those costs add up.”<br />Ms. Conway said a handler for a regular show costs $100 to $125, plus travel expenses.<br />Julie Schuh, the corresponding secretary of the Puli Club of America, said the time between one<br />and two years is the most labor-intensive for an owner.<br />“When you go back the next day, they smell musty.”<br />Ms. Schuh, who works for an electrical contactor in Appleton, Wis., said she<br />sometimes leaves her show Puli in the crate while she’s at work, dryers on.<br />“It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the top dog,” said Kim Vavolo,<br />who has been breeding and showing American cocker spaniels for 22 years.<br />“It’s very unpredictable,” said Mary Wiest, who for the past 50 years has been breeding<br />and showing Labradors from her kennel, Beechcroft Labradors in Warren, N. J.<br />But if something goes wrong, you can lose a lot.”<br />“In all the years I’ve been breeding, probably five of those years I’ve made money,” she said.

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