# Cool Dog Cool Dog is a late-2000s image macro built from a photograph of a Shiba Inu leaning its front leg casually over the roof of a doghouse. The image spread from November 2008 through 2010 as an Advice Dog variant, paired with boastful or ironic captions like 'cool story bro' across personal blogs, fark, and Memebase. ## Overview Cool Dog is a photograph of a Shiba Inu resting its front leg casually over the roof of a doghouse, giving the dog a relaxed, arms-crossed look[1]. Users picked up the image as an Advice Dog format variant, pairing it with boastful or ironic captions written in the classic advice-animal template[3]. The recognizable element is that specific pose: elbow bent, chest forward, the dog looking calm and unbothered, almost as if leaning on a bar[1]. The single photo carried the joke on its own, which is why the picture also spread as a plain shareable image on personal blogs alongside the captioned macro versions[2]. ## How It Spread On May 4, 2009, a captioned version of Cool Dog was posted to the Motivational Posters Online blog, dressed in the demotivational-poster style that was everywhere on humor blogs then[2]. That entry helped push the image further into the Advice Dog rotation[2]. By late 2009, a 'cool story bro' Advice Dog variant was uploaded to fark.com by user mjoven1975, and on November 21, 2010, another remix appeared on Memebase, with Cool Dog serving as a generic Advice Dog canvas for existing catchphrases in both cases[3]. Later, Urban Dictionary entries picked up 'cool dog' as slang, with one definition describing it as something you say when spotting an animal like a snake slithering away[4]. ## How to Use The Cool Dog template follows the Advice Dog macro layout. Take the Shiba Inu doghouse photo, add colored top-and-bottom text, and drop in a short boastful or ironically confident line, often in the 'cool story bro' or one-upmanship register that matches the dog's relaxed pose[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Cool Dog? Cool Dog is a photograph of a Shiba Inu leaning its front leg over a doghouse roof, later paired with boastful 'cool' captions in the Advice Dog format[1]. ### Where did Cool Dog come from? The earliest surviving upload dates to November 5, 2008, on sguenis.blogspot.com, posted by a user named Cristal on a Portuguese-language personal blog[1]. ### What does Cool Dog mean? The name points to the dog's laid-back, elbow-on-the-roof pose; Urban Dictionary also lists 'cool dog' as slang, including as something to say when spotting an animal like a snake[4]. ### How do you use Cool Dog? Add colored top-and-bottom Advice Dog text to the Shiba Inu doghouse photo with a short boastful line, like the 2009 Motivational Posters Online captioned version[2]. ### Is Cool Dog still popular? Cool Dog is a classic late-2000s Advice Dog image, with its main documented spread happening from 2008 through 2010 across blogs and forums[2]. ## References 1. [https://sguenis.blogspot.com/2008/11/paradoxo.html]() 2. [https://motivationalpostersonline.blogspot.com/2009/05/cool-dog.html]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cool-dog]() 4. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cool%20Dog]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/cool-dog Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library