Peanut named World’s Ugliest Dog at Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma
Peanut, a two-year-old dog thought to be a Chihuahua-Shitzu mix, triumphed over a host of hairless, hunchbacked rivals and won the World’s Ugliest Dog prize.
Peanut has been crowned the World’s Ugliest Dog at a contest for freakish-looking pets in California.
He beat contenders with hunched backs and patchy coats to take the top prize at the annual gathering of the least pulchritudinous pooches on the planet.
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Peanut has been crowned the World’s Ugliest Dog at a contest for freakish-looking pets in California (photo AP)
Owners and judges agreed that Peanut’s wild white and brown hair, bulging eyes and protruding teeth belied a sweet and energetic personality.
Peanut’s owner, Holly Chandler, of Greenville, North Carolina, said he was seriously burned as a puppy and she wanted to use her pet to raise awareness about animal abuse.
Holly Chandler planned to use the $1,500 prize to pay for other animals’ veterinary bills.
The contest, held at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma, California, is in its 26th year.
The dogs are scored by a three-judge panel in several categories, including special or unusual attributes, personality and natural ugliness.
Winners in recent years have included a duckfooted beagle, boxer and basset hound mix with a waddle, a Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix with a protruding tongue and short tufts of hair and a Chihuahua with a missing eye and a camel’s back.
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