Japanese dog of 'Doge' meme fame dies
The Hindu
Kabosu, the beloved shiba inu behind the Doge meme and Dogecoin, passes away at 18, leaving a lasting legacy.
The Japanese dog whose photo inspired a generation of oddball online jokes and the $23-billion Dogecoin cryptocurrency beloved by Elon Musk died on Friday, her owner said.
"She quietly passed away as if asleep while I caressed her," Atsuko Sato wrote on her blog, thanking the fans of her shiba inu called Kabosu — the face of the "Doge" meme.
"I think Kabo-chan was the happiest dog in the world. And I was the happiest owner," Sato wrote.
As a rescue dog, Kabosu's real birthday was unknown but Sato estimated her age at 18, past the average lifespan for a shiba inu, with her birthday celebrated in November.
In 2010, two years after adopting Kabosu from a puppy mill where she would otherwise have been put down, Sato took a picture of her pet crossing her paws on the sofa.
She posted that image — with the fluffy shiba inu giving the camera a beguiling look — on her blog, from where it spread to online forum Reddit and became a meme that bounced from college bedrooms to office e-mail chains.
The memes typically used goofy broken English to reveal the inner thoughts of Kabosu and other shiba inu "doge" — pronounced like pizza "dough" but with a "j" at the end.
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