Boo, the World’s Cutest Dog

If you’ve been anywhere near the Web over the past few years, you’ve probably come across Boo.

He’s the self-proclaimed “World’s Cutest Dog” — a 6-year-old pomeranian with a carefully coiffed hairdo, his own book deal, and nearly five million Facebook fans. He’s especially popular inside of Facebook, too. That’s convenient — because Boo’s mom happens to work there.
No, not his birth mom — I’m pretty sure dog labor is against OSHA regulations. Two of my tipsters say that Boo’s adoptive human mother of the past six years is Irene Ahn, a dyed-in-the-wool Facebook employee working in a leading position in the company’s finance department. After working for Yahoo and PayPal in the past, Ahn has been with Facebook since December of 2008.

Her little boy Boo is something of an Internet cult hit. His growth in popularity was initially gradual, when Ahn first started a Boo Facebook Page in 2009, but it ended up skyrocketing after celebrities caught wind of it. Pop star Ke$ha tweeted a link to Boo’s Facebook page back in October of 2010, calling Boo her new boyfriend. Four days later, Khloe Kardashian posted a picture of Boo to her blog. And I can’t help but think perhaps knowing a few of the right Facebook engineers helped Boo go viral a little bit faster.

It’s a bummer, as nothing would have been more fun than a video interview with Boo. Next time I’m down at Facebook HQ, I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled, my camera at the ready, and pray I can score a TMZ moment with the dog himself.
For now, we’ll just have to be satisfied with the endless, adorable pictures of him on his Facebook page.

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