Meet the newest winner of the “World’s Ugliest Dog” competition
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Last Friday, Scooter won the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog contest in Petaluma, California. In other news, a newborn girl left in a Florida Safe Haven Baby Box was adopted by the firefighter who found her. Contrast these good news stories with recent headlines announcing the further decline of the church in America. However, when you pull back the curtain on what’s been written, the story changes—for the better.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Wednesday, June the 28th, |
| 0:07.0 | 2023. I'm Chris Elkins. Today's article is written by Denison Forum, co-founder and CEO, |
| 0:14.0 | Dr. Jim Denison. Scooter, a seven-year-old, hairless Chinese crested pup, was born with back legs and joints |
| 0:23.1 | that are backwards. |
| 0:24.5 | When he was born, a breeder turned him into animal control for euthanasia. |
| 0:28.5 | But an animal rescue group saved him. |
| 0:31.3 | He walks on his front legs and sits on his back legs like a tripod. |
| 0:35.3 | According to the Today profile, because his feet are backwards |
| 0:39.6 | when he goes to the bathroom, it lands on his feet, but Scooter just flings it up in the air. There's |
| 0:45.9 | your devotional image of the day. Last Friday, Scooter won the 2023 World's Ugliest Dog Contest |
| 0:53.4 | in Petaluma, California. In other news, a newborn girl left in a |
| 0:57.9 | Florida safe haven baby box has been adopted by the firefighter who found her. He and his wife |
| 1:04.2 | had been trying for more than a decade to have a baby. I picked her up and held her, he said. |
| 1:09.3 | We locked eyes and that was it. |
| 1:11.6 | I've loved her ever since that moment. |
| 1:13.6 | One more good news story. |
| 1:15.6 | A man tried to return home from Oklahoma City to Charlotte, North Carolina last Sunday, |
| 1:20.6 | but his plane was delayed repeatedly, and he had to wait in the airport for 18 hours. |
| 1:26.6 | He was rewarded by being the only person on the flight when it finally took off. |
| 1:31.4 | He got a free pass into first class and a private party with the crew. |
| 1:35.9 | His TikTok post was viewed more than three million times in less than a day. |
| 1:41.4 | When we read the news, we should always ask, |
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