The Unsettling Truth About the World's Most Adorable Dog

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Boo the Pomeranian may be the most famous dog alive today, based purely on his looks. His photos are the sweetest sort of eye candy known to man, as millions of his fans on Facebook will attest.

As happens with the supremely attractive, he has an empire. He has . . He is a. That is almost half as many who like , and he is a dog without a TV show (yet). When you Google he is your first search result. The appeal of Boo is simple: as he writes on his heavily trafficked Facebook page, "My name is Boo. I am a dog. Life is good." But more importantly, he's cute. Man's best friend, clad in sunglasses, in an array of little outfits, occasionally next to his slightly less adorable dog friend Buddy, the forever bridesmaid in the situation that is Boo's heady and amazing life. How can a person not love Boo? When in that time we don't like to think about, we were devastated. Can cuteness really die, or does it just go take a nap in "better place" for a while before it's sent back to earth where it belongs?