SALLY JESSE RAPHAEL BITCHES ABOUT GETTING DATES FOR HER DOG

SALLY JESSE RAPHAEL BITCHES ABOUT GETTING DATES FOR HER DOG

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Raising a champion show dog can be a real bitch -- just ask Sally Jesse Raphael. According to "Parade" magazine, Raphael has decided to retire her championship Irish wolfhound after 90 championships because she finds the dog-show world "so political and expensive -- about $65,000 a year." She says she only entered her male pooch in the contests to "enhance his social life," but whenever she tried to get her dog a "date," the "bride's" owners wanted to know how many ribbons her pedigreed pooch had won in competition. These days, Sally's show dog has been neutered and lives at her farm in Duchess County, New York.

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