This pooch is officially the World's Ugliest Dog

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One human took home a $1,500 prize Friday night just for owning an unattractive dog. Quasi Modo, 10, is a pit bull-Dutch shepherd mix with a birth defect that left him hunchbacked. A panel of three judges at the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in Petaluma, California, deemed Quasi Modo uglier than his 26 competitors, The Associated Press reports.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.