Yoda, 14-year-old Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix won the World’s Ugliest Dog title at the 23rd annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest held at Sonoma Marin Fair in Petaluma, California.

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Dogs do descend directly from wolves. The vexed issue is how long ago they parted ways, and why. The biological evidence and the archeological evidence are at war: DNA analysis points to a very remote break between wolves and dogs, certainly no later than a hundred thousand years ago, while the earliest unequivocal archeological evidence for domesticated dogs dates to just fifteen thousand years ago or so.

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Susan here. My new home is awesome. Was held up in a shelter for monthes then moved on to a foster home. But now I live on Bliss Street in Sunnyside and I could not be happier
One of my favorite poems.

A Dog on his Master by Billy Collins

As young as I look,

I am growing older faster than he,

seven to one

is the ratio they tend to say.

Whatever the number,

I will pass him one day

and take the lead

the way I do on our walks in the woods.

And if this ever manages

to cross his mind,

it would be the sweetest

shadow I have ever cast on snow or grass.



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Now this is a New York wedding

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