WATCH | A JAPANESE MAN SPENDS $15,000 YEN TO BECOME A DOG

Sun 30 July 2023:

A Japanese guy by the name of Toco claims to have spent over $15,000 on a collie dog outfit, fulfilling a childhood fantasy.

Toco can be seen wearing the intricate outfit in public while being carried around on a leash in videos released to the man’s YouTube channel, which has nearly 30,000 subscribers. He sniffs other dogs at a park and does other dog-like things like rolling around on the grass.

“I became a collie, fulfilling a dream I had since I was a little child to be an animal,” Toco was quoted as saying at the beginning of one of the video clips. He doesn’t speak in any of the videos, apparently to maintain the canine illusion.

“Do you remember your dreams from when you are little? You want to be a hero or a wizard,” he explained. “I remember writing in my grade school graduation book that I wanted to be a dog and walk outside.”

A Japanese man, known only as Toco, spent $16K on a realistic rough collie costume to fulfill his dream of becoming a dog.

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While the four-legged version of Toco is unashamed to parade in public as a popular breed of herding dog, however, the human version isn’t quite so comfortable revealing what he does in his spare time.

“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 face.”

He added in a separate interview with UK publication the Mirror: “I rarely tell my friends because I am afraid they will think I am weird. My friends and family seemed very surprised to learn I became an animal.”

Toco went outside for the first time in full collie regalia in his backyard last September, in a controlled environment. Even then, Toco claimed the experience had made him feel “nervous and a little scared.”

The suit in which Toco takes pleasure his dog dreams was designed by Zeppet, a Japanese company that specializes in making costumes for television and film projects.

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