PUPPY LOVE
A LAD from Japan has spent nearly £13,000 in a quest to become a border collie.
Toko shares his journey to become a canine on his YouTube, and his latest addition to his doggie collection is raising eyebrows.
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Dog-loving Toko previously said of his videos: "I became a rough collie because I wanted to be an animal.
"This channel will bring you videos of such an unusual rough collie."
In a recent video, Toko invested in a full sized dog cage to sleep in.
The human in the video also points at the cage, and Toko leads himself towards the cage.
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The massive collie struggles to enter the cage, before finally entering and becoming comfortable.
The lights are then turned off and the human leaves the lassie locked up, before you hear bizarre barking.
Toko barked until the person filming him turns the light back on, returns and unlocks the cage to let him out.
Toko can be seen rolling around happily, clearly content with his choice to become a border collie.
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The Japanese oddball, who uses the online name Toko-san, paid two million yen for the fake fur suit, which took 40 days to make.
Toko-san says the collie is his favourite breed, and the suit has helped him “fulfil my dream of becoming an animal.”
He said: "I made it a collie because it looks real when I put it on.
"I thought that a big animal close to my size would be good – considering that it would be a realistic model, so I decided to make it a dog.
"There are restrictions, but you can move in it. However, if you move too much, it will not look like a dog."
It seems Toko-san isn't alone in his weird love for dressing up as man's best friend.
In the US, more than a quarter of a million people now identify as "furries" - a subculture where members dress up as cartoonish animals, sometimes as a sexual fetish.
Writer and enthusiast Joe Strike, 67, from New York, penned a book lifting the lid on the quirky fetish in a book called Furry Nation.
Strike, who dresses up as a suave Komodo dragon named Komos, estimates two-thirds of furries are men.
He also believes a large number of furries come from the IT and technology professions.
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Meanwhile a study on furries led by Canadian college professor Kathy Gerbasi was published in the journal Society & Animals.
It found a quarter of those surveyed considered themselves less than 100 per cent human and would become zero per cent human if they could.
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