Meet Pabst, a boxer-mix who was recently named the world's ugliest dog 2009.

His under-bite, scrunched face and wonky ears might not make him a natural beauty, but Pabst was the star of the show at the World's Ugliest Dog contest in California this weekend.

The former rescue dog beat off stiff competition to take the dubious title - and $1,600 in prize money - at the annual Sonoma-Marin Fair.

Owner Miles Egstad of California had a beaming smile as he said how proud he was of his pooch ... not so much when people started discussing how dogs look like their owners.