Years ago a Shiba Inu dog took the meme world by storm spawning dozens of derpy meme pics and eventually the almighty Doge Coin crypto. It’s been a wild ride.
But the real dog behind all these iconic internet shenanigans is Kabosu. His owner is now letting the world know Shiba is coming to the end of his impressive life.
The 17-year-old shiba inu stopped “eating and drinking voluntarily” on Christmas Eve, and has been diagnosed with acute cholangiohepatitis and chronic lymphoma leukemia, according to a series of Instagram posts by her owner Atsuko Sato, a kindergarten teacher in Sakura, Japan.
While Sato said Kabosu’s appetite had returned, she had previously blogged that the dog was moving around less, and more slowly.
Doge coin is the only crypto I’ve held onto and that was even sort of as a joke. But now I think I’ll keep it forever to honor the little dog who made us all smile. …. unless it shoots up from the attention. Then I’m selling.