East Yorkshire's Peggy the Pugese bids to be named UK's ugliest dog

The proprietor of a canine vying for the dubious rubric of ugliest successful the UK said she chose to follow the quirky canine arsenic she looked truthful "unloved and unusual".

Four-year-old Peggy, believed to beryllium a Pug and Chinese Crested transverse - oregon Pugese - belongs to Holly Middleton from Leven, East Yorkshire.

Mrs Middleton said portion Peggy whitethorn origin a disturbance successful the thoroughfare she is simply a much-loved subordinate of the family.

"She's similar Marmite, you either emotion her oregon you don't," she said.

Mrs Middleton, 36, adopted Peggy erstwhile she was conscionable six months old. Describing her, she said: "She has tufts of hairsbreadth connected her caput and her feet and her lingua hangs out.

"It has ever been similar that but it doesn't halt her from doing anything, she tin devour she tin drink, it does spell successful her mouth, it conscionable doesn't enactment there!"

"We were looking for a canine and we knew we wanted thing small, thing that would acceptable successful our beingness rather easily, but we didn't needfully spell looking for a quirky dog," she said.

"I conscionable emotion thing that is simply a spot unloved and unusual, truthful erstwhile I saw her connected the adoption website I knew I wanted to instrumentality attraction of her."

While she instantly knew she wanted to springiness Peggy a home, choosing a sanction was a small harder.

"We truly struggled with a sanction due to the fact that thing seemed to suit her, but my grandma was present and she said she reminded her a spot of her mum, truthful we went for that," Mrs Middleton said.

She added: "Sometimes I hide that she doesn't look similar a mean canine and past we locomotion down the thoroughfare and you tin perceive radical whispering and saying 'Oh wow, look astatine that!'.

"My eldest was a spot embarrassed of her astatine archetypal due to the fact that his friends each had nice-looking dogs similar cockapoos, but helium thinks she's beauteous chill now."

Matt Dahan, Parrot Print founder, said: "We received hundreds of entries and these 7 were the ones who made our eyes wounded erstwhile we looked astatine them.

"There truly are immoderate disfigured mutts retired determination successful the UK and we anticipation our contention volition observe the champion of them."

Other contenders see Roger - a Pug, Toy Poodle and Ugly Boi transverse - from Brighouse, successful West Yorkshire, and Marnie - a French Bulldog - from Swindon, successful Wiltshire.

The victor is owed to beryllium announced adjacent month.