A one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world's ugliest pooch this summer at the Marin County Fair has died.
The St. Petersburg Times in Florida reports that Gus, a Chinese crested dog, had cancer.
He was 9.
Gus was rescued by Jeanenne Teed from a bad home and went on to win the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair a few months back.
Gus came from humble origins. According to the fair, his adopted family in Gulfport, Fla., rescued him after learning he was being kept in a crate inside someone's garage.
He had one leg amputated because of a skin tumor and lost an eye in a cat fight.
Teed said the prize money from the contest would be put toward the dog's radiation treatment.
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