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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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In this June 20, 2008 file photo Gus, a pedigree Chinese Crested from St. Petersburg, Fla, competes in the 2008 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. The one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world’s...