R. I. P. Sam

[lurker]

World's Ugliest Dog dies at 14

Associated Press


SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Sam, the tiny dog whose hairless body and crooked teeth earned him a reputation as the World's Ugliest Dog, has died.



The pooch died Friday, just short of his 15th birthday, his owner said.

"I don't think there'll ever be another Sam," Susie Lockheed said, adding: "Some people would think that's a good thing."

Sam won the ugliest dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair this summer for the third year in a row. The pedigreed Chinese crested had made appearances on TV in Japan, radio in New Zealand and in Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid. He also had met Donald Trump on a talk show set.

Lockheed said she initially was terrified of Sam when she agreed to take him in as a rescue dog six years ago on a 48-hour trial basis. Although she fell in love with him, his appearance repulsed her then-boyfriend and prompted the man to break up with her.

Later, however, Sam became a matchmaker by bringing together Lockheed and her current beau, who saw a picture of the two on an online dating site.

Lockheed said she had Sam euthanized after she learned Sam's heart was failing.

She said she's felt a little lost ever since, and is sleeping with Sam's favorite toy - a stuffed bear he picked up and carried home.

[Lone Gunman]

Kinda looks like my ex-motherinlaw. She looked like a 100 pound of a-holes.

[K C Muffin]

Kinda that, too, LG!!

I must be in an awfully charitable mood this morning.....I actually liked my first set of in-laws! Thought they were great people! I can't blame them for bringing their son into the world.....they didn't know.......

My second set of in-laws were a little strange, but there again....they had no idea.

I have the perfect situation this time - in-laws are in Ohio, too frail to travel. I can always be nice on the phone!!!

Happy T-day!

[Lone Gunman]

My ex inlaws liked the hell out of me when they needed something other then that they though I was a sorry SOB. I never got along with them too well. I don't blame them for bringing their daughter into the world but I do blame them for how she turned out.

[K C Muffin]

Maybe I'm just a likeable kinda girl!

[Lone Gunman]

I'll bet that's it.

[Bigun]

Originally Posted by lurker

World's Ugliest Dog dies at 14

Lockheed said she had Sam euthanized after she learned Sam's heart was failing.

Complications from dying of a bad case of UGLY! The heart failure was caused by showing the dog its reflection in a mirror!

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by Bigun

Complications from dying of a bad case of UGLY! The heart failure was caused by showing the dog its reflection in a mirror!

That was my first thought, then I remembered that dog was also blind.

[lurker]

OMG! Being ugly and too blind to realize just how ugly one is would be a challenge.

Kinda like when Abraham Lincoln was challenged by one who was 'challenged' as being uglier then old Abe. As the story is told; Abe asked to be killed, because he felt that he wasn't worthy of the Title.