Out of a discipline that included a “hairless mutant” with no enamel and a crooked face, a creature that resembled “a hyena or mandrill baboon,” and a canine with a “gorilla-looking head,” a Chihuahua combine named Mr. Glad Face emerged on Friday because the foulest of all of them, winner of the 2022 World’s Ugliest Canine contest.
Mr. Glad Face, who as soon as lived in abusive and neglectful circumstances with a hoarder, has tumors and neurological points, requires a diaper, struggles to face upright or stroll, and holds his head askew.
But he has reached the age of about 17, sports activities a pure mohawk and makes a sound “like a Dodge Ram diesel truck” revving its engine when he’s completely happy, in line with an online biography.
“It was clear and obvious Mr. Happy Face deserved to be champion,” Debra Mathy, one of many contest’s judges, stated on Saturday, including that the judges didn’t even trouble debating who ought to win. “All the obstacles this dog overcame physically and in his past life — it’s amazing.”
The canine and his proprietor, Jeneda Benally, gained $1,500 and a visit to New York Metropolis to seem on the “Today” present.
The contest says it promotes the adoption of canines, even ones that may have “missing fur, crossed eyes, duck waddles or mismatched ears.” Eight canines walked the crimson carpet on the occasion, which is held through the Sonoma-Marin Truthful in Petaluma, Calif., and has been occurring for almost 50 years. It resumed on Friday after being suspended in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
“They’re promoting rescuing dogs, that all dogs regardless of their appearance deserve to be loved,” Ms. Mathy stated.
When Ms. Benally adopted Mr. Glad Face from a shelter in Arizona, “the shelter staff tried to prepare me for what I was about to see,” she wrote on the competition web site. Mr. Glad Face had lived on the shelter for “quite some time” and a veterinarian estimated that he had just a few weeks, or at most a month, to stay.
“I vowed that day, he would be so loved that he would never remember how awful his previous life had been,” Ms. Benally wrote. In his new residence, Mr. Glad Face has already made it to 10 months.
Second place, with a prize of $1,000, went to Wild Thang, a survivor of distemper who’s now toothless, with a perpetually protruding tongue.
Wild Thang was an “adorable mess,” Ms. Mathy stated, including the canine “looked like 50 pounds but only weighed six pounds, because it was all fur.”
Earlier contest winners embrace Scamp the Tramp, “a dog of unknown breeding with beady eyes, no teeth and short stubby legs” in 2019, in addition to Martha, a Neapolitan mastiff with “droopy red eyes, uncontrollable drool and baggy skin” in 2017.
