They might be the "ugliest," but they're still pretty adorable. Here's a look at past winners and other contestants of the famous World's Ugliest Dog contest.
The 2017 competition will be held Friday, June 23 in California.Â
2016 winner: SweePee Rambo
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SweePee Rambo, a 17-year-old Chinese Crested Chihuahua, won the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in 2016.Â
2015 winner: Quasi Modo
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Quasi Modo had also participated in the 2014 contest, but she wasn't quite as successful that year. The crowd seemed so interested in her though, according to the Guardian, that her owners decided to make the trip from Florida to compete for a second year. This time it paid off.
2014 winner: Peanut
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Peanut is a mutt from North Carolina who was two years old at the time of winning the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in 2014.
2013 winner: Walle
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Four-year-old beagle, boxer and basset hound mix Walle won top honors in 2013.
2012 winner: Mugly
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Mugly is a Chinese crested dog owned by Bev Nicholson of Peterborough, England.
2011 winner: Yoda
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Yoda is a Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix who was 14 years old at the time of the 2011 contest.Â
2010 winner: Princess Abby
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Princess Abby is a purebred chihuahua owned by Kathleen Francis, of Clearlake, California.
2009 winner: Pabst
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Pabst, a toothy 4-year-old Boxer mix, won the 2009 contest. Pabst competed again in later contests but didn't hang onto the title.Â
2008 winner: Gus
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Gus, a one-eyed, three-legged pedigree Chinese Crested from St. Petersburg, Florida, won in 2008. Gus died later that year on Nov. 10, 2008. He was 9.
2007 winner: Elwood
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Chinese Crested dog Elwood won in 2007. He weighed just 6 pounds and was rescued as the result of a New Jersey SPCA investigation.
Elwood died on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 28, 2013, said his owner, Karen Quigley of Sewell, California.
2003-2005 winner: Sam
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Sam, officially named Lil' Sam according to the Sonoma-Marin Fair website, won three years in a row. Sam has a hairless body, crooked teeth and a sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head. He died just short of his 15th birthday on Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, according to his owner, Susie Lockheed.
*No photo is available for the 2006 winner, Archie.
2015 contestant: Andre
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Andre is a 7-year-old Chihuahua.
2015 contestant: Pork
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Pork is a 13-year-old Chihuahua with blue nails.
2015 contestant: SweepeeRambo
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SweepeeRambo, a 16-year-old Chinese Crested, is shown here undergoing a vet check before the competition.Â
2014 contestant: Icky
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Icky is a Chinese Crested looks who is shown here with owner Jon Adler.
2014 contestant: Josie
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Josie is a Chinese Crested from Tucson, Arizona.
2014 contestant: Zoomer
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Zoomer is a Chinese Crested from Davis, California.
2013 third place "mutt" winner: Isaboo
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Isaboo is a 7-year-old Chinese Crested. Isaboo won third place in the mutt category.Â
2013 contestant: Grovie
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Grovie is a 10-year-old pug.
2013 contestant: Penny
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Penny is a 12-year-old pure bred pug. She's shown with owner James Montgomery.
2011 division winner: Handsome Hector
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Handsome Hector is a pure bred Chinese Crested who won his division at the event in 2011.Â
2011 contestant: Ratdog
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Ratdog is a 14-year-old Chihuahua mix.
2010 contestant: Piggy
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Piggy is a Chinese Crested.
2009 pedigree class winner: Miss Ellie
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She is a blind 15-year-old Chinese Crested Hairless.Â
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2015 winner: Quasi Modo
- AP Photo/Noah Berger
Quasi Modo had also participated in the 2014 contest, but she wasn't quite as successful that year. The crowd seemed so interested in her though, according to the Guardian, that her owners decided to make the trip from Florida to compete for a second year. This time it paid off.
2007 winner: Elwood
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Chinese Crested dog Elwood won in 2007. He weighed just 6 pounds and was rescued as the result of a New Jersey SPCA investigation.
Elwood died on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 28, 2013, said his owner, Karen Quigley of Sewell, California.
2003-2005 winner: Sam
- AP Photo/Santa Barbara News-Press, Rafael Maldonado, File
Sam, officially named Lil' Sam according to the Sonoma-Marin Fair website, won three years in a row. Sam has a hairless body, crooked teeth and a sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head. He died just short of his 15th birthday on Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, according to his owner, Susie Lockheed.
*No photo is available for the 2006 winner, Archie.