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Dog named after White Sox mascot - complete with dyed fur - meets White Sox mascot

How much do you love your team? Do you love them enough to, say, name your dog after their mascot? Bring your dog to a game and parade it around the ballpark? Dye your dog's hair to match the mascot's? (Mind you, the mascot is alien green.)

If not, then you've got nothing on Priscilla Bautista and Claudia Mosquede of Chicago. Their pup Southpaw, named after the White Sox mascot -- who is a lizard, or shell-less turtle, or something, we think? -- came to Dog Day at U..S. Cellular Field sporting a new hairdo. Painted green to match his namesake, he was quite the hit inside the designated Dog Zone. He even got to meet the real-life Southpaw.

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