Zsa Zsa dies weeks after being dubbed 'World's Ugliest Dog'

Brainard, focus, celebrates after Zsa, base, is declared the victor of the 30th World's Ugliest Dog Contest. Additionally envisioned are Yvonne Morones, left, and Linda Elmquist, holding their less-terrible canines Scamp and Josie, who came in second and third, separately.

Miscreant Deux, a Chinese peaked, gets a kiss from proprietor Dane Andrew amid the challenge, which saw 15 pooches competing for the title of the opposition's homeliest.

Martha, a Neapolitan Mastiff who won the 2017 World's Ugliest Dog Contest, seems in front of an audience before taking in the crown would be grabbed from her huge head.

Rascal, who may be a terrier blend, appreciates tuning in to youths read. The puppy's most loved book is "Go, Dog. Go!," challenge coordinators say.

Tee, another Chinese peaked, scowls under the watchful eye of the judges.

At 14 years of age, Daisy is one of the senior stateswomen of the opposition (that is 98 in canine years). Here proprietor Whitney Sherman supports her codger Chihuahua blend.

Wild Thang, a Pekingese, leaves no inquiry concerning where it got its name as the little guy shows up in front of an audience amid the occasion.

Another Chinese peaked blend with yet another ... expressive? ... tongue, Josie is a normal at the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, coordinators say.

Meatloaf, another bulldog, additionally passes by numerous names, including Meaty, Meatball, Mystery Meat and Snorlax. He was going after the money prize to subsidize a truly necessary eye medical procedure.

Heather Wilson holds up her puppy, Himisaboo, a Chinese peaked Dachshund blend, amid the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

Mandarina pants on her proprietor's lap while anticipating the beginning of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest. The opposition brings issues to light for the significance of selection, the same number of the little guys were protected from safe houses and pup plants.

(CNN)Zsa Zsa, whose bodacious tongue as of late won her the 30th yearly World's Ugliest Dog Contest, kicked the bucket in her rest, the English bulldog's proprietor said Tuesday.

Megan Brainard of Anoka, Minnesota, conveyed the tragic news about the 9-year-old canine. "I'm in stun still," she revealed to CNN sister arrange HLN. "I haven't prepared her triumphant and notoriety."

A news discharge declaring Zsa's triumph in late June in Petaluma, California, stated: "Nine years youthful with a swaggering tongue, Zsa conveyed a shower of drool as she guaranteed the current year's title."

At the time, Brainard said in an email to CNN that Zsa - who has two hide siblings, a pug and a Frenchie - owed her amazing tongue to her relatively even upper teeth and vigorously articulated underbite, which made it hard to keep the pink, beefy mass in her mouth.

Zsa had her nails painted for the opposition. ... That is correct.

Zsa' rewards included $1,500, "an expansive trophy" and a trip to New York, where she and Brainard showed up on the "Today" appear.

Zsa put in five years at a young doggie process in Missouri before being acquired by the charitable Underdog Rescue.

"From the minute we saw her lovely face, we knew we would be her eternity home," Brainard said.