World’s Ugliest Dog
August 29, 2005 | 356 Comments
For three years running Sam has won the San Francisco Sonoma-Marin Fair’s“World’s Ugliest Dog” competition. I’ve been meaning to blog this ever since my father-in-law Brian showed it to me a week ago. The pictures really say it all. Is there a single endearing characteristic about this animal?
I searched around a lot, but could not find any of the runners-up out there. I have no doubt that this is undeniably the world’s ugliest. However, apparently his health is fading so I wonder what the competition will grace us with in years to come.
This UK site claims to have some ugly dogs, but they just don’t compare.
Well, anyway, here’s all the pictures I turned up of this handsome devil.
UPDATE:
So Matt brought up a good point in a comment, is this a friendly creature? Well, no not really. I found the owners blog site and Sam’s site.
From her site:
I invite anyone with complaints to come and see how absolutly adored and well cared for this dog is and to touch his leg and see how little it takes to get him snarly. One time, SAM came SCREAMING into the house dragging his back leg..I dropped the dish I was carrying and thought he had gotten out and been hit by a car or something. When I caught up with him in the bedroom he was looking back at his back leg and screaming and growling..WELL…there was a post-it note stuck on his rump..he had sat on it on the sofa and it stuck. The last thing in the world I would do is hurt SAM but it does NOT take much to get him growling//usually he just does it on his own anyway!
More articles about Sam:
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=10958
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/uglydog.asp
http://www.gadgetryblog.com/gadgetryblog/2005/07/worlds_ugliest_.html
http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/another_image_o.html
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