Terrier Hobie went from the streets of Mexico to a loving family, with help from the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter. Now he's a finalist in a People magazine competition for top rescue dog.

Hobie the terrier mix received thousands of votes to triumph over 8,000 other dogs and win the 2023 PEOPLE's World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by the PEDIGREE® brand.

The Hobie Cat–of which there have been a dozen variations since he created it in 1968–is a compact, double-hulled catamaran designed to skim the surface of the water rather than cut through it.