ONE of the 'ugliest' dogs in the country is recovering after a gang of youths attacked him and pulled out his only clump of hair.

ONE of the 'ugliest' dogs in the country is recovering after a gang of youths attacked him and pulled out his only clump of hair.

Mugly, who was named Britain's Ugliest Dog by a national newspaper in 2005, was set on by a gang of teenagers after he went missing from his home in Peterborough.

The five-year-old Shitzu-Chinese Crested cross was rescued by a passer-by who saved him from the teenagers who were punching and kicking him in a nearby park.

“They even pulled out his clump of hair,” said owner Bev Nicholson, 46.