The World's Ugliest Dog is picked

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 21, 2008

[Zakeet]

Yes, we have a new "World's Ugliest Dog." A one-eyed, three-legged Chinese Crested was crowned, so to speak, yesterday at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. The Santa Rose Press Democrat reports:

It was hard to deny the fact that Gus -- a one-eyed, three-legged hairless Chinese crested with skin cancer -- wasn't exactly a looker. It didn't help that he spent most of the three-hour event sleeping in a baby blanket in owner Jeanenne Teed's arms with his tongue hanging out. Or that he sometimes bites when folks get too close.

But that turned out to be a winning combination for the crowd favorite and ultimate winner of this anti-beauty pageant for pups held each year in Petaluma at the Sonoma-Marin Fair. Consider it a nod to the underest of underdogs.

"Big buckets of drool get extra points," said emcee Brent Farris of radio station KZST, during Friday's event. "So do missing limbs."

[Snip]

The event will be televised on Animal Planet in October.

[Zakeet]

The winner ... overcame fierce competition

[UglyinLA]

Thank you for not posting a picture of Helen Thomas.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

In before the Streisand photo.
In before the “GUILTY.”
In before the “I’d hit it.”

[richardtavor]

His nickname is lucky!

[GulfWar1Vet]

Gus is on Fox right now.

Gosh..he’s so ugly, he’s cute. LOL

[garyhope]

Ahhhh, ROFL, you Freepers are SO funny. Thanks for the laughs.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Why not turn him around, so we can see his face?

[mountn man]

That dog is NOWHERE near as ugly as Hellen Thomas.

That woman wasn't hit with just the ugly stick, she got the entire forest.

[Ditter]

A Chinese Crested ALWAYS wins the ugly dog contest. Surely there are other ugly breeds out there. (My dogs are all beautiful so we are not eligible)

[nmh]

I thought they would be showing Obama as the ugly one - inside and out.

[blam]

[Locomotive Breath]

For a brief moment, before my eyes focused, I thought that was a picture of Cindy Sheehan. Any yes she could win an ugliest dog contest with Helen Thomas.

[DManA]

Gimme that Hellen Thomas picture.

[Fiji Hill]

Duke, from the U. of Redlands

[Brainhose]

Your wish is my command

[andy58-in-nh]

If my dog had a face like that, I’d shave his ass and make his walk backward.

[C210N]

One more for a dog thread, one which has been posted before... even recently, so its an oldy-but-goody:

[DManA]

Ewwww. Be careful what you wish for.

[AnAmericanMother]

He's just not all that ugly. Usual Chinese Crested problems with skin and with incomplete dentition (they are usually born missing many or most of their teeth, hence the tongue lolls out of the mouth).

I guess the long-term title holder finally died. Now THAT was a very ugly dog . . .

Also a Chinese Crested - but blind and with severe eczema.

[C210N]

Not shaved, but with a pair of glasses, who would know the difference?