Ugliest dog dead at 17

I'm a few days late on this but am going to post it anyway.

How often do you get to write the world's ugliest pedigree dog died?

Here's the story from the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Miss Ellie, the Chiness Crested hairless died at the age of 17 in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Miss Ellie was rescued when she was 7 years old and brought to live with her owner, Dawn Goehring, and 13 other rescue dogs. In her final days, Miss Ellie was continually working on raising awareness and money for rescue animals. She was entered in the 2010 World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif., and had planned to travel to California next month to compete one more time for the Ugliest Dog title before her retirement.

Even in death, Miss Ellie continues to raise money for the Sevier County Humane Society. See the Comedy Barn Canines Facebook page for more information.