It's all over but the barking. The World's Ugliest Dog chosen Friday at the Sonoma-Marin Fair is Archie, a hairless Chinese Crested from Phoenix, Ariz.
Eighteen dogs competed in what was once a local competition, and 30 media outlets from as far as Japan and Germany competed for interviews and camera angles, said Vicki DeArmon, the fair's marketing director.
NBC11.com featured a Bay Area contender named Rascal, but in the end, Rascal did not make the final cut.
Before the winner was announced Friday, 30,000 votes were cast online, but the favorites who were chasing digital hub caps along the information highway; Munchkin, Pee Wee, Rascal and Victoria, went belly up when Archie's owner Heather Peoples exposed her pet's hideous, sploched underbelly. There were four levels of competition.
Archie won the Pedigree class and went up against Pee Wee, the winner of the Mutt class. Archie won the 2006 Ugly Dog contest and advanced to the Ring of Champions, that included winners from past years' contests, DeArmon said. Archie faced Rascal, Winston and Munchkin, DeArmon said, and Munchkin's snorfling and sidelong walk and huge fan club couldn't sway the judges. Archie won two trophies and $1,000 in prize money. The cable television show "Animal Planet" filmed the contest attended by 1,200 fairgoers for broadcast in the fall. The ugliest dog contest returns in June 2007.
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