The Unsettling Truth About the World's Most Adorable Dog

Atlantic Wire ^ | 8-8-12 | Jen Doll

[afraidfortherepublic]

Boo the Pomeranian may be the most famous dog alive today, based purely on his looks. His photos are the sweetest sort of eye candy known to man, as millions of his fans on Facebook will attest.

As happens with the supremely attractive, he has an empire. He has stuffed toys made in his image. Books have been written about him. He is a public figure, liked by 4,938,017 people on Facebook. That is almost half as many who like Kim Kardashian, and he is a dog without a TV show (yet). When you Google "world's cutest dog," he is your first search result. The appeal of Boo is simple: as he writes on his heavily trafficked Facebook page, "My name is Boo. I am a dog. Life is good." ~snip~ How can a person not love Boo? When false rumors of his death spread across the Internet in that time we don't like to think about, we were devastated. ~snip~

Now we're faced with what may be the gravest conundrum yet, knowledge we're not sure we're fully equipped to deal with; actually, ~snip~ According to Mike Isaac of AllThingsD, two tipsters relayed the intel that "Boo’s adoptive human mother of the past six years is Irene Ahn, a dyed-in-the-wool Facebook employee working in a leading position in the company’s finance department.

~snip~

At first, Boo's popularity took its time. It was when Ahn created a Facebook page for Boo, with a tidy, handy little URL, that celebrities started to get involved and like things and everything went nuts, or, in the parlance, viral. "And I can’t help but think perhaps knowing a few of the right Facebook engineers helped Boo go viral a little bit faster," says Isaac.

[Darnright]

Ms Ahn isn’t even original:

http://www.mrwinkle.com/

[GreenLanternCorps]

"The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier." - Otto von Bismark

OOPS! Wrong Pomeranians!

;)

[brytlea]

Oh heck, my Pauli has a fan base on Flickr. She’s much more beautiful than any Pom. They are hardly dogs (and often ill tempered).

[brytlea]

Well of course, now you HAVE to post a photo. Pauli insists.

[Ditter]

I will have to have some help if I am going to post a picture of Hairy, can you come over and help me now? :D

(calling Eaker, calling Eaker!)

[brytlea]

I can help you. If you don’t mind me posting it on my flickr account I can do it easily. Otherwise you can set up a photobucket account. I have one but I can’t remember my password.

[austingirl]

I love Mr. Winkle.

[Eaker]

Here is Hairy now!

[Ditter]

Thank you Eaker for posting my angel dog's photo. :D

[brytlea]

Oh well, there you go, and I agree, ADORABLE (and way cuter than that pom!) :)

[Eaker]

Ironically I have had that photo for exactly one year today!

[freekitty]

You are so right.

[Ditter]

You have freepmail.

[gorush]

"Check out the last line and post pictures of your pair to prove her wrong."

Seriously, who doesn't love corgis?

Always happy to comply. :{)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Cuter any day of the week and twice on Sunday than Boo.

[thecodont]

When the owner came to pick them up and the food, the older pup was sitting on my porch with his back to me. I started rubbing behind his right ear and he let out a groan that went on for about seven seconds. My neighbors eyes got about as wide as quarters and he said he never had done that before.

He does it all the time when I scratch/rub him. Course, I’ve been a dog person my whole life!!

I knew a German Shepherd that would attempt to purr (if you could imagine a dog trying to purr) when I pet her. She would emit a soft, prolonged, groaning sigh, and lean against my leg.

[djf]

I totally believe it. Dogs have many vocalizations that most people never hear.