Coto de Caza, CA – The cuddly champion of the 2023 PEOPLE’s World’s Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by the PEDIGREE® brand has arrived — meet Hobie!
“He looks like a teddy bear and is very sweet,” the one-eyed terrier mix’s pet parent, Christin Bernhardt, tells PEOPLE about the pup’s adorable allure.
For Bernhardt, 36, and her husband, Joern Riemer, Hobie’s cuteness was undeniable from the first moment they saw him.
Before meeting the dog, the couple felt their family was “incomplete” after their cross-country move from Boston to Coto de Caza, California, in the summer of 2022. So they began searching for another dog to join them and their 15-year-old Cairn terrier Zoe. Browsing through rescue pets online, Bernhardt came across Hobie, who was available for adoption at the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter.
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