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Helena Sung It's the morning before the 134th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and Sadie the Scottish terrier is perched atop a table at Bonham's, an auction house in midtown Manhattan. No, the number-one-ranked dog in the country is not going to the highest bidder; Sadie is the guest of honor at Barkfest at Bonham's, an annual charity brunch that raises money for the American Kennel Club's (AKC) Humane Fund, which promotes responsible pet ownership through education, outreach and grant making. Attendees have paid $50 per ticket for an advance viewing of some 260 pieces of Victorian oil paintings and sketches of dogs that will go on the auction block on Feb. 16. In a glass case is a ...

Courtesy American Kennel Club She did it again! Sadie, the four year-old Scottish Terrier who won Best in Show at the National Dog Show in Philadelphia last month, won top honors at the 2009 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in Long Beach, Calif. on Sunday night, taking home her 110th Best in Show title, as well as a $50,000 cash prize. "I feel really proud of her that she's showing great for us all year long," Sadie's handler, Gabriel Rangel, told Paw Nation. Cheering on Sadie, whose formal name is Ch. Roundtown Mercedes of Maryscot, was her owner, Amelia Musser, who had traveled from Mackinac Island, Mich. "It feels really wonderful to be here," Musser tells Paw Nation. "We're just ...

Steve Donahue Photos Sadie, the four-year-old Scottish Terrier who won it all at the National Dog Show earlier today, says she's too famous to talk to us now. But her handler, Gabriel Rangel of Rialto, Calif., was willing to indulge a few of our post-show questions. Are you the only handler Sadie's ever had? I've been her handler for two-and-a-half years. I'm the only handler she's had since then. She earned her championship status through another handler before me. Besides this win, what other career highlights have you two shared? When we won Best Terrier [i.e. Best In Group] at the Westminster Dog Show. She performed beautifully there. When you first started handling Sadie, did you ...