The World's most Amazing and Ugliest Dog Contest 2013

 “People come up to me and say that dog is not right,” said Tammie Barbee, who owns Walle, the 2013 winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest. “But I love him,” she added. The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is held annually at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, and this year the contest celebrated its 25th anniversary. Luckily, the event’s official photographer, Kira Stackhouse of Nuena Photography, was there to take these fantastic photographs – like this one of Rascal on stage with his owner Dane Andrew.

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12 Amazing Bionic Animals

Beauty the Bald Eagle

Beauty was found foraging on a rubbish tip, painfully emaciated. Closer inspection revealed that she’d been shot in the face and the top part of her beak had been blown off. Initially, she was force-fed liquids through a tube, before being fed solid food with forceps. Many people thought Beauty should be put to sleep, but her rescuers refused to give up hope and eventually came across an engineer who, with the help of scientists, researchers and even his own dentist, designed and built Beauty’s new upper mandible.

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