The World’s Ugliest Dog

Yesterday saw the 2009 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest being held at at the Marin-Sonoma Fair in California.

The contest has become hugely popular, and in recent years the competition has been dominated by the striking Chinese Crested breed. Most internet users will probably be familiar with the face of last year’s winner Gus.

Gus had only three legs and one eye, he was suffering from skin cancer. His owners used the prize money from the contest to get treatment for his cancer, but unfortunately Gus was unable to compete this year as he sadly passed away last November.

The favourite to win this years contest was Rascal, another Chinese Crested and previous holder of the title. But the celebrity judges made the surprise decision to name their winner as Pabst, a boxer cross with an awesome underbite.

Pabst was rescued by his owner Miles Egstad three years ago and this was the first year he’d been entered into the competition. It is also the first time in seven years that a cross breed has won the contest, everyone expected another Chinese Crested to scoop the award.

The prize for being so ugly was $1600, plus a selection of doggie goodies such as swanky collars, leads and bowls and a one year modelling contract with House Of Dog.

The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is in it’s 21st year and boasts some celebrity judges. This years judges were Karen “Doc” Halligan who is a qualified veterinarian and also appears in Animal Planet’s Groomer Has It and also Animal Rescue 911. The second judge had managed to finally get out of that well, it was Jon Provost, who played Timmy on the television show Lassie.

Image is Copyright Grace Chon/Shine Pet Photos.

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