{"id":6647,"date":"2012-06-24T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2012-06-24T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T18:39:01","slug":"mugly-wins-worlds-ugliest-dog-2012-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mugly-wins-worlds-ugliest-dog-2012-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugly Wins Worlds Ugliest Dog 2012 Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dugdo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never appropriate to beat up on someone else, not even in the dog world. When Mugly was rescued from a shelter in the UK, the poor creature had been roughed up by &#8220;thugs&#8221;. His 2nd chance came when Bev Nicholson of\u00a0Peterborough, England adopted him. She now travels with Mugly in the Pets As Therapy Dog program, working with children. Mugly was selected by a panel of judges as the World&#8217;s Ugliest Dog 2012 in the Sonoma-Marin &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/ugly-dogs\/\">World\u2019s Ugliest Dog<\/a>&#8221; contest.\u00a0 News quickly spread around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>A viewer&#8217;s choice contest chose &#8220;Creature&#8221; in online voting, but that contest is just for fun allowing the public to offer their input.<\/p>\n<p>Below\u00a0 is the online Youtube video from the event. If you are not seeing it,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mugly-wins-worlds-ugliest-dog-2012-contest\/\">refer back to our posted story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgsFpmVAGRo?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never appropriate to beat up on someone else, not even in the dog world. When Mugly was rescued from a shelter in the UK, the poor creature had been roughed up by &#8220;thugs&#8221;. His 2nd chance came when Bev Nicholson of\u00a0Peterborough, England adopted him. She now travels with Mugly in the Pets As Therapy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}