Shunsuke, the Cutest Dog of All the Dogs
August 27, 2012 8:56 AM   Subscribe

Shunsuke is a Japanese Pomeranian guaranteed to brighten your day. He's amassed a considerable fanbase; his owner's Twitter feed is followed by more than a hundred thousand people, and he's got a calendar and photo book. Here he is riding a snow shovel. Here he is dressed as a bee.
posted by Monster_Zero (20 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
I love it when people give their Pomeranians that haircut that makes them look like a little bear.
posted by griphus at 9:04 AM on August 27, 2012


I refuse to believe this is a real dog and not some mo-cap cartoon cause nothing naturally occurring is THAT CUTE.
posted by The Whelk at 9:07 AM on August 27, 2012


Open that dog up, and know what it's full of?

SPIDERS.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:14 AM on August 27, 2012 [2 favorites]


OH MY GOD there is nothing on earth cuter than short-trimmed pomeranians. NOTHING I TELL YOU NOTHING.

also i cannot adequately describe the noise i made upon viewing the bee suit, i think it may have transcended both space and time.
posted by elizardbits at 9:26 AM on August 27, 2012 [1 favorite]


I was thinking hmm, he doesn't meet my personal criteria for absolute adorableness, and then my god the bee video. SO CUTE.
posted by pickingupsticks at 9:27 AM on August 27, 2012


hey hey i have a pomeranian too hey pay attention to Samson

(But ok, Shunshuke is the 2nd cutest dog of all the dogs!)
posted by moonmilk at 9:29 AM on August 27, 2012 [1 favorite]


You know if an evil mind-controlling alien race wants to enslave earth they should probably do it in the form of Shunsuke. I don't think we'd even mind.
posted by The Whelk at 9:32 AM on August 27, 2012


idk man i think i am going to have to see samson in a bee suit first

FOR SCIENCE
posted by elizardbits at 9:34 AM on August 27, 2012 [1 favorite]


"also i cannot adequately describe the noise...."

You don't need to, most of us heard it... I'm sending the bill for the shattered crystal......
posted by HuronBob at 9:34 AM on August 27, 2012 [1 favorite]


no, it was the goosedonkey thing again.
posted by elizardbits at 9:38 AM on August 27, 2012


ok, my first kickstarter: buy a bee suit for Samson. You all are prepared to spam everyone you know for this, right?
posted by moonmilk at 9:47 AM on August 27, 2012


OH MY GOD there is nothing on earth cuter than short-trimmed pomeranians. NOTHING I TELL YOU NOTHING.

Ahem. Also ahem. And jazzhands.

(they are bombling around now!)
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:48 AM on August 27, 2012 [2 favorites]


(Though ponameranians and dogs of that ilk are pretty darn cute)
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:49 AM on August 27, 2012


ROU - how did you cross puppies with piglets??

My parents used to buy dog food at a store whose proprietor called pomeranians pomenarians.

I used to buy pomegranates at a bodega that called them pomergrants.

posted by moonmilk at 10:00 AM on August 27, 2012 [1 favorite]


I have met Samson and he is FULL OF ATTITUDE. In the BEST WAY.
posted by griphus at 10:04 AM on August 27, 2012


Japan is stealing our cute-dogs-in-bee-costumes idea just like they are stealing our rounded corners!
posted by drlith at 10:07 AM on August 27, 2012


I am pretty sure that is the exact face I make when presented with tacos. Or certain teevee shows I have tentatively agreed not to mention in unrelated threads.
posted by elizardbits at 10:15 AM on August 27, 2012


But then i saw the pic w the frappucino at starbucks.

THE LINK BUTTON!
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:23 AM on August 27, 2012


just like they are stealing our rounded corners!

Not trying to derail, but Samsung isn't a Japanese company.

Back on topic: the Japanese university I work for recently created a puppy mascot to promote its new social media accounts. There's been a big discussion about what the character's "voice" should be. They don't want to assign it a gender, which is harder than one might think, since language use in Japanese drastically changes depending on a speaker's gender identity. Last week, our social media committee literally spent an hour and a half debating what first person pronoun the character should use in its twitter posts.

Anyway, with that many followers, Shunsuke's owner is doing something right. I think I'll forward this to our PR guys for a little inspiration.
posted by Kevtaro at 2:50 PM on August 27, 2012


boo
posted by ninjew at 8:08 AM on August 28, 2012


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