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Twice a week, three-year-old Sterling walks into his daycare wearing a backpack and carrying his favorite stuffed turtle. He stays there for eight hours, does lots of activities, hangs out with his friends and then his owner, Jessica Chrisopoulos, comes to pick him up.

Except Sterling’s daycare is not just a daycare, it’s a place where he goes for training because Sterling is a show dog. Chrisopoulos explained she and her husband travel across the country about three times per month to bring Sterling and their other three dogs to compete in dog shows.

Sterling, a bloodhound, trains at Fit Dog in Shelby Township. (Sophia Lada / MediaNews Group)

On Thanksgiving, though, Sterling’s dog show fame was taken to another level because he was shown o

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