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Nov 10, 2008 2:40 pm US/Central

World's Ugliest Dog Dies After Battle With Cancer

GULFPORT, Fla. (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: A one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world's ugliest pooch this summer has died. (File)

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A one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world's ugliest pooch this summer has died. The St. Petersburg Times in Florida reports that Gus, a Chinese crested dog, had cancer.

He was 9. Gus was rescued from a bad home and went on to win the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in northern California.

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.

Gus' owner had said the prize money from the contest would be put toward the dog's radiation treatment.