'Yoda' wins world's ugliest dog award

25 June 2011 Last updated at 13:39 ET Help

A cross between a Chihuahua and a Chinese crested has had the dubious honour of being crowned the world's ugliest dog 2011 in a competition in northern California.

The winner, Yoda, was found abandoned behind an apartment building, and her owner says at first she thought it was an overgrown rat.

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