A canine named Petunia nabbed the title Friday night within the “World’s Ugliest Canine Contest,” on the Sonoma County Honest in Santa Rosa, California. Petunia and her proprietor, Shannon Nyman, walked away with $5,000 and bragging rights.
The competition has been going down for practically 50 years, organizers stated, and is a “testomony that the pedigree doesn’t outline the pet.”
Not solely does the competition showcase the distinctive and offbeat fantastic thing about canine, however lots of the collaborating canine have been rescued from shelters and pet mills – displaying potential canine homeowners the optimistic outcomes of adoption.
“It is a fantastic present of pageantry and satisfaction,” organizers say.
See pictures of Petunia and her fierce opponents.
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On the 2024 competitors, Wild Thang, a then 8-year-old Pekingese from Coos Bay, Oregon, took dwelling the title.