Word: mahopac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show over. Sister was paraded solemnly before TV cameras and bundled into her cage for the trip back to Mahopac. She was a worthy winner - but U.S. dogs were certainly going to take a frightful ribbing from U.S. cats...
Called "Sister" for short, the new champion is an aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show...