Before Sheena McCorqudale was inspired to craft a chicken-wire sculpture showing a dog holding a beer bottle in his mouth, Mike the dog was a beloved bartender. Sheena says the pup was recognized by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not for his work at the Bowser Hotel during the early 1940s. “He would go and take the beer out of the fridge and take it to the customers,” Sheena says. “And then bring the change back.
” Like Mike the bartending dog, Sheena’s career path has taken unexpected turns, including a stint designing an iconic gameshow. “I loved it. It was so exciting,” Sheena says of leading the design team on almost 250 episodes of Let’s Make A Deal. “Someone would run in and say, ‘We need six dancing swans in half an hour!’ And you’d have to produce.” “I really put my mind into what a cat would like,” Sheena smiles, pointing out forest-print wallpaper and two-storey rooms for the cats to climb around with access to an outside enclosure. “You don’t look for ‘cat movies’,” Sheena smiles, referencing a video showing a squirrel eating accompanied by a soundtrack of bird chirpin