At the farewell gathering in Narita on May 26, reporters came from overseas, too. Dogecoin posted that the impact this one dog had made on the world was "immeasurable."
Sato wrote that she was certain Kabosu had been the happiest dog in the world, and that this made her the happiest owner.
The world met Kabosu at four, in a photo taken on a day that was "nothing out of the ordinary." That photo became a fortune, and nearly all of it went to children she would never meet.
And the world's most famous dog spent her last morning at home, in the hands of the woman who took it.
