We’ve had a coup at this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog Competition.
This is the first year in a very long time that the winning dog was not a Chinese crested or a Chinese crested cross.
This year’s winner was a boxer cross named Pabst.
Pabst has a distinctly undershot bite, which I’m sure got him points with the judges.
But undershot jaws aren’t merely the realm of bulldog types.
My first golden had a slightly undershot bite, which isn’t that uncommon in working lines of golden retriever. It didn’t really affect her ability to carry things in her mouth, so I never worried about it. In the show ring, having a bite like this is considered a terrible fault.
Of course, that’s in the Sir Bufton and Sir Tufton world of conformation shows.
At the Sonoma-Marin Fair, an undershot bite seals the deal.
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I’d be curious to know if his parentage is known, or assumed. To me he ha a much more Dogue De Bordeaux look.
I agree.
Either that or “rednose” pit bull.
Or the two together. Red/liver is a recessive and I have to say I’ve never heard of or seen a liver boxer. It shows up in bulldogs occaisionally, but I doubt you’d get it with a straight boxer cross.
Saw some video of him and he looks more pibble in the body than anything else.
He looks very well loved and happy, so that’s the important thing.
I’m glad a basically healthy dog one. Cresteds are such healthy, elegant little dogs, having a really badly bred crested or crested cross win every year did not do them justice.
Not even that, but many are outright deformed, or else are like 14 year old geriatrics. Not that Cresties can’t age gracefully, but by that age they’re bound to look a bit decrepit. =P
I made the error of watching a television show about this “contest.”
Which revealed that those crested/crested crosses were being deliberately bred for maximum deformity in order to win the contest.
No, I did not want to believe it myself either. The last of my innocence and faith in humanity gone.
Why should I have been surprised?
People deliberately breed concave-faced Persian cats, banana-backed GSDs, etc. and call them “beautiful” while winning contests with them.
That some jackasses deliberately breed ugly and actually *call* it ugly, and also don’t care that the ugly is a birth defect that causes untold suffering to the animal — is that worse than calling the birth defect beautiful?
At least this dog’s deformity seems to be limited to his facial structure, and he wasn’t bred for the role.
I’ve always suspected this.
I wonder if they also their cresteds’ teeth, even though they do tend to lose teeth on their own.
I wish people would just appreciated dogs as they are, and not get them all mixed up with OUR egos.
I have come to the conclusion that the human ego might be the most destructive force on the planet.
The teeth that Cresteds are born without, the premolars, do not affect whether the tongue hangs out of their mouth. They would have to be missing most of their front teeth as well.
It’s actually not that rare for geriatric toy dogs (of any breed) to have a peeking tongue, as many tend toward poor dental health if their owners didn’t maintain them properly when they were younger. Either way, When you have Crested+Pug mixes (or whatever the heck some of those things are) you end up with missing premolars. a small jaw, AND a crowded brachy mouth that can only make those dogs’ oral states pretty messed up.
People will do anything for a buck. The minute they started offering prize money for ugly or deformed animals, people were bound to look for ways to maximize their ability to win.