Meet the Shiba Inu Who’s Become an Instagram Star For His Adorable Facial Expressions
By King Malleta
Ryuji is a 7-year-old Shiba Inu from Japan that’s taking over Instagram. With around 130,000 followers, this fluff ball is well-liked, well-loved, and well-followed.
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His Instagram page is filled with countless photos of his everyday adventures and misadventures and snaps that perfectly capture his various facial expressions.
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Upon contacting Ryuji’s Instagram, Nextshark was accommodated by the page administrator and the person behind all his photos, Yukiko.
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Yukiko told Nextshark that Ryuji has been with her mother, Yumiko, for seven years. She also revealed that the bandana-loving Shiba Inu is named after their previous guard dog, Ryutaro.
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Judging from his everyday photos, it seems like the adorable Shiba Inu has grown accustomed to being photographed, but Yukiko revealed that it’s not as easy as it seems.
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“It takes one to two hours to take photos,”she said. “I’m waiting for his interesting facial expressions.”
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Just by looking at Ryuji’s profile photo, you can guess from his slight smirk that this Shiba Inu is something special.
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