About: World's Ugliest Dog Contest

An Entity of Type: organisation, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The World's Ugliest Dog Contest is an annual contest held in Petaluma, California, as part of the Sonoma-Marin Fair, to decide which of the dogs entered in the contest is the ugliest. The contest, along with the rest of the fair, is typically scheduled for the fourth week of June. Along with the title of “The World’s Ugliest Dog” the winner’s owner receives a check for $1,000 and a trophy As of 2017, the prize has been increased to $1,600, a trophy and a free trip to New York City. There is significant media coverage, and as many as 20,000–30,000 people attend the contest during the fair each year. The fair now holds an all-day Dog Lovers' Festival preceding the evening contest.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The World's Ugliest Dog Contest is an annual contest held in Petaluma, California, as part of the Sonoma-Marin Fair, to decide which of the dogs entered in the contest is the ugliest. The contest, along with the rest of the fair, is typically scheduled for the fourth week of June. Along with the title of “The World’s Ugliest Dog” the winner’s owner receives a check for $1,000 and a trophy As of 2017, the prize has been increased to $1,600, a trophy and a free trip to New York City. There is significant media coverage, and as many as 20,000–30,000 people attend the contest during the fair each year. The fair now holds an all-day Dog Lovers' Festival preceding the evening contest. The contest has been going on since the 1970s. In 2009 the Sonoma-Marin Fair trademarked the phrase World's Ugliest Dog. In 2013, the contest celebrated its 25th anniversary as a fair-produced event, and an anniversary book, World's Ugliest Dogs, was published with text by the contest's producer of seven years, Vicki DeArmon, and photos by photographers who have covered the contest over the years for the fair. (en)
  • O concurso O Cão Mais Feio do Mundo é uma votação anual que elege o cão mais feio do mundo naquele ano. O concurso ocorre desde 2000 na cidade de Petaluma, na California. A votação acontece por meio de um site. Além do título de "cão mais feio do mundo", o proprietário do vencedor recebe um cheque de USD $ 1.000 e um ano de fornecimento de biscoitos para cachorro. (pt)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 3532536 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 19653 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1124774923 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • O concurso O Cão Mais Feio do Mundo é uma votação anual que elege o cão mais feio do mundo naquele ano. O concurso ocorre desde 2000 na cidade de Petaluma, na California. A votação acontece por meio de um site. Além do título de "cão mais feio do mundo", o proprietário do vencedor recebe um cheque de USD $ 1.000 e um ano de fornecimento de biscoitos para cachorro. (pt)
  • The World's Ugliest Dog Contest is an annual contest held in Petaluma, California, as part of the Sonoma-Marin Fair, to decide which of the dogs entered in the contest is the ugliest. The contest, along with the rest of the fair, is typically scheduled for the fourth week of June. Along with the title of “The World’s Ugliest Dog” the winner’s owner receives a check for $1,000 and a trophy As of 2017, the prize has been increased to $1,600, a trophy and a free trip to New York City. There is significant media coverage, and as many as 20,000–30,000 people attend the contest during the fair each year. The fair now holds an all-day Dog Lovers' Festival preceding the evening contest. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Cão mais feio do mundo (pt)
  • World's Ugliest Dog Contest (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:homepage
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License