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Top Dog Tuukka and Best-Dressed Bella keep it in the family at CAHI’s 2026 Cutest Pets on Parliament Hill

Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld's formerly foster feline Coco was also voted Cutest Cat, and a hamster named Nugget crushes crowded 'Other Pet' category.

Helen Murphy, left, with 'Cutest Dog' Tuukka, Ottawa Town Crier Daniel Richer, Katherine Murphy with 'Best Dressed' Bella, and Deputy Speaker Alexandra Mendes at the Canadian Animal Health Institute's 2026 Cutest Pets on Parliament Hill awards on June 2 at the Metropolitain Brasserie.Photographs by Cynthia Münster, courtesy of CAHI

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BY STUART BENSON

June 3, 2026

The Murphy-Morrison family and their pair of pooches cleaned up at this year's Cutest Pets on Parliament Hill Awards, as Conservative staffer Billy Morrison's pup Tuukka took hom...

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