World's ugliest dog dies at 15

London, Mar 15 (ANI): A 15-year-old Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix, which won the World's Ugliest Dog contest in 2011, died in her sleep in California on Saturday.

Owner Terry Schumacher told the Hanford Sentinel that she would miss "her funny little ways."

Yoda won the absurd contest at the Sonoma Marin Fair for her short tufts of hair, protruding tongue, and long, seemingly hairless legs, the Mirror reported.

Schumacher found the abandoned 1.8lb dog behind an apartment building and first mistook her for a rat.

The two went on to international fame, bagging a 1,000-dollar prize and a trophy 15 times the size of the winner. (ANI)