Article: For breeders, dogs aren't all show and sell

Sunday afternoon and Evellyn Olmem, who has had too many slabs of that Sara Lee chocolate cake, is giggling, swatting snouts and getting lovingly mauled by Stanley, Piggy, Crockett and Hardy.

Stanley, Piggy and Crockett are Alaskan malamutes, those massive, fluffy, gorgeous Arctic dogs. Hardy is a Siberian husky.

Stanley is the big one dressed in the bowler hat, a red wig and his snout is colored red for Halloween. Piggy, so named because he eats everything, has a green snout and a black-and-white wig. Crockett is wearing sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt.

There is orange-and-black crepe paper and Halloween decorations everywhere. A wet nose bops Evellyn Olmem upside the head and ...

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