POTD: FOO Dog

FOO Dog
Wichita, Kansas
2024

FOO Dog, including the all-caps on FOO, is the name of this sculpture according to it’s name plate. I was getting much more of a feline than canine vibe from it myself, and I have no feeling at all about whether it’s FOO or not, whatever that is.

Oh, according to Wikipedia (which I just bothered to check), it’s actually a Chinese guardian lion or imperial guardian lion, also known in colloquial English as lion dogs or foo (fu) dogs where the term foo or fu may be a transliteration of the pinyin words fó or fú. Why they decided to capitalize all the letters of foo on the sculpture’s plaque is unknown.

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