This morning as we arrived at the office in Brooklyn (DUMBO – for the uninitiated, “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”) we saw a shrine on the wall across the street. In this trendy but still warehouse-y area it was a colorful and unusual sight. The shrine was styled as a real, Catholic-style edition, with a little roof covered with iridescent flat marbles and many lovely things inside. We don’t know the Chihuahuas’ name, and it is not provided on the shrine that we could see. But this dog was loved, and is clearly missed by his master, who we assume is the guy holding his little living body in the shrine photo.
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This shrine is located on Jay Street between York and Water Streets in DUBMO, Brooklyn. |
This was a sincere little
dog, a real individual
(as all dogs are) with
a sweet and
sympathetic face.
This dog had many little toys and representations of toys provided, a little like the sorts of things packed away in the Egyptian Pharaoh’s tombs (but for doggy taste). Jewel-studded rubber duckies, plain rubber duckies, sparkly stones, a yellow feather, a woolen finger puppet, shiny objects, even a little Oriental carpet. One feels that Chihuahua had a nice life filled with love, fun, and playfulness.
Goodbye little Chihuahua! I’m thinking of you now too.
