A Japanese company named Zeppet created a hyper realistic dog outfit for a man in 40 days. Zeppet makes costumes for TV commercials and films.
The outfit facilitated the transformation of a Japanese man into a big size dog, called Toco, which cost him two million Yen ($22,000).
Zeppet is known for creating figurines, body suits, 3-D models etc. A spokesperson of the company said, “Modelled after a collie dog, it reproduces the appearance of a real dog walking on four legs.”
The man dog posted a video on his YouTube channel, called ‘I want to be an animal’. While his channel has over 31,000 subscribers, the uploaded video on the platform has more than 1 million views. Though the video was recorded last year but has been recently posted online. The video was recorded for an interview by a German TV station, RTL.
The video begins with the subtitles, “I became a collie, fulfilling a dream I had since I was a little child to be an animal!”. It shows Toco being taken out for a walk with a leash around his neck. He smells other dogs in the park and rolls on the ground just like any domestic dog would do.
In 2022, Toco, the human dog, spoke with the Daily Mail, a British daily, and shared the reason behind transforming himself into a human dog. He said, “I don’t want my hobbies to be known, especially by the people I work with. They think it’s weird that I want to be a dog. For the same reason why I can’t show my real face.”
In another interview conducted by the Mirror, he said, “I rarely tell my friends because I am afraid they will think I am weird.” The man confessed, “My friends and family seemed very surprised to learn I became an animal.”
