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i noticed the dog figurine in the catalog and thought it was pretty neat. that's pretty much all i have to say on the topic!

argh...I feel like the trend was over before it started...

that is soooo not a dog

It looks like the lion/dog/dragon creature statues and figurines all over Okinawa. They were always in pairs and I think they were called "shisha" dogs or something like that.

Trend or no trend - these things remind me of the scary neclace that the Brady boys found in Hawaii that made Greg fall off his surfboard.

Now if only West Elm would mass produce a younger Greg Brady....nah!

I'll let P(2) respond to krister.

What scares me is that I've now seen foo dogs come into fashion three times....

That's a classical chinese motive of a LION. not a dog. Some people put a pair flanking their front doors but usually only the rich and influential does that. Supposedly it's traditionally believed to be a dangerous item to put at the main doors because lions are very 'strong/powerful' creatures, unless the master of the house is powerful enough, or else the lions will bring ill fate to the master of the house.

Anyway, I think you can sometimes see these big lion statues flanking front doors of banks and big business in places like Hong Kong. ( but the last time i have been to Hong Kong was more than a decade ago, my memory might have failed me)

they're guardian spirits. it would be a bit much to put them in front of a "humble" abode, but such figurines might be part of the home altar in the same humble abode.

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