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Jul 2 2009, Michael Rundle

Filed under: Weird, Nature Among the many intellectual and artistic pursuits enjoyed by us culture vultures at Asylum, the annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest has to be among the highlights. This year’s contest was recently held in Northern California, and

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