Posted on 07/28/2023 11:25:39 PM PDT by Angelino97
A Japanese man who spent more than $20,000 to become a dog has finally taken his first walk and immediately made some canine friends.
Known only as Toco, the man spent two million Yen (A$22,000) on a hyperrealistic border collie costume to fulfil his lifelong dream of “becoming an animal”.
In recent updates shared with his almost 30,000 YouTube subscribers, Toco was seen playing in his backyard on all fours and performing tricks in exchange for treats.
But now he has ventured into public for the first time to reveal his new look.
In a pair of surreal videos posted to his YouTube channel ‘I want to be an animal’, Toco was seen being taken out for a walk on a leash, sniffing at other dogs in a park and rolling around on the floor.
Toco’s grand debut — which was captured while he was filming a segment for a German TV station — seemed to be well-received by passers-by and other dogs, who appeared curious. It wasn’t clear whether they realised Toco wasn’t a natural-born dog.
“I became a collie, fulfilling a dream I had since I was a little child to be an animal!” subtitles at the beginning of the video read...
Toco says he hides his human identity because he doesn’t want to be judged by people he knows.
“I don’t want my hobbies to be known, especially by the people I work with,” he told the Daily Mail last year.
“They think it’s weird that I want to be a dog. For the same reason why I can’t show my real face.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Either his costume maker failed, or, more likely, the headline writer failed, because that is NOT a Border Collie.
If you believe that you are a dolphin, shouldn't you be able to get a taxpayer-funded dolphinoplasty?
How long will it be that this sort of crap makes its way into the military?
No shortage of mentally-ill whackjobs running loose on this planet nowadays...
A real Border Collie is much smarter than this guy.
Actually, a real Border Collie is smarter than most humans. LOL.
Yea, he can hump all the ladies’ legs he likes.
I suppose this falls into the furry Japanese division category. Bizzaro world weirdness and not in any way appealing at least to me.
Japanese men are a warning about what happens to a conquered people - which we are fast becoming.
How about our young folks. “Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans willing or able to serve”
“He’s just pursuing his happiness.”
He is running from his fears.
If not, epic fail.
I can’t talk. In November I will be one of thousands upon thousand across the South to dress myself as a tree. We don’t think we are trees, but we want the deer to think we are.
LOFL! $22k, down the drain...
Just wait until he gets picked up by Animal Control. When he tells them he is really a human, they will assume a clever dog is trying to trick them.
He is a furry
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"Although the vast majority of Japanese do not eat dog meat, it has been reported that more than 100 outlets in the country have been selling it imported, mainly to foreign customers."
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He's been doing this for years. If it is a hoax, he's certainly committed to it.
Our guys were killed because:
1. We were fighting evil. The Nazis and the Japanese and the North Koreans And the NVA/VC were some of the most vicious, murdering people to ever exist. Evil destroyed frees at least some of the world from them and keeps that murder from coming here.
2. We lost them because our country was unprepared for war. Our government and to a large extent, the American public, didn’t want to think about icky war and refused to fund modernization, testing, production, and fielding the weapons and equipment - which pretty much advertised to rest of the planet that we were a soft target.
Our enemies were competent, well-equipped and well led - and we weren’t ready.
Our own senior leaders were at least initially, not up to the task and wasted many good young men.
3. Not every fit young male volunteered. Many took advantage of school and various programs, or used feigned medical issues to stay away from combat. That put our best, most courageous guys into the most dangerous situations and we lost many of them.
The 4Fs, meanwhile, took advantage of the situation and bred like rabbits - which explains the large surge in LGBT adherents.
At some point, societies fail when they run out of brave young men. Substituting young women won’t help at all.
WWI made WWII necessary. But I still say, WWI was completely unneccesary and ultimately led to the downfall of Western Civilization.
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