Well, the idea behind it is to encourage adoption of older and “less than showroom ready” dogs from shelters by showing off how really adorable they are.

I support this. Chinese Cresteds looks insane and definitely need their own category.

Basically, they need to split the award into “Ugliest Dog, Chinese Crested” and “Ugliest Dog, Non-Chinese-Crested”.

Yea I’d never own one of the little goblins but they are a HOOT to hang out with. French bulldogs are also charming as hell.

I agree, it’s such a shame. It’s happening in some horse breeds as well. Basically humans will ruin anything for the aesthetic. We really need breed standards to shift back to prioritizing health over exaggerated breed traits. It’s no coincidence that most of the dogs competing in this contest each year are the same…

I like bully dogs like mastiffs and bulldogs and pugs and boston terriers, but there’s just too many health problems in pretty much every breed of that type, and I think the entire model we use for dog breeding needs to be replaced by something that avoids extreme traits (very flat faces, very large or small dogs,…

I used to exercise horses for a woman who also bred this type of dog, Neapolitan Mastiffs. They are.... something else. Some of the younger ones are pretty striking looking but they just get saggier and saggier until they are laying in the sun looking like a puddle of skin and fur with the dog deflated out.

Aw, it isn’t their fault their eyes fall out of their heads.

I like to think that celebrating “ugly” dogs could help less handsome shelter dogs by upping their perceived social value. Kinda like three-leggeds. It would be preferable if they only admitted mutts to the contest, but whatever.

Congratulations Martha! I’m glad she won, those Chinese Crested beasties seem to take it every year, and it’s not fair; being of weird-looking breed shouldn’t make you a shoe-in. There are loads of funny, ugly sweetumses of all types and sizes out there!

Welsh Sheepdog.

I have a mutt we got from a shelter - we reckon he’s a staffy crossed with something bigger (what, exactly, we have no idea), and his ears look like they were taken off a different dog entirely and stuck on the wrong place on his head. My mother-in-law, when we showed her his photo from the shelter, said he was “the…

I could definitely use some of Cappie’s philosophizing right about now. Let’s hope that it lands somewhere like Netflix.

This is a joke, right? There’s no way this is really her. Must be some sort of variety show, no?

I didn’t know there was a Greek revival in the works. Now, I’m super sad because I loved Greek. #TeamCappie

Good. I dunno who killed that poor woman, but this kid was railroaded. Guilty or not, that confession was some bullshit.

Just let this kid go home already! Let him get the help he needs.

Every element of that case involving Dassey just made me livid. It was so clear that members of his defense team essentially colluded with the prosecution because just saw the kid as worthless white trash.