A funny article about Ayu's dogs [2003]
 

Ain't no dog's life for pop star's pampered pooches


By Ryann Connell
Staff Writer

April 24, 2003


Pop diva Ayu Hamasaki is going to the dogs -- literally, according to Shukan Gendai (5/3).

Where Japanese teenyboppers dote on the every move of the bubblegum pop queen, Hamasaki seems more intent on focusing on her dogs.

But, just as Hamasaki emulates Madonna by continuing to influence millions of teens, her penchant for pooches makes her more like a primadonna because of the dogged way she insists her pups be pampered.

"At the end of recording a TV show, she headed straight for her chihuahua Clare, picked it up and started making an almighty fuss over it, kissing it and praising it for waiting so long for her while she worked. She went a bit over the top the way she fawned over the dog," a talent agency manager tells Shukan Gendai.

When asked once about how many dogs she owns, Hamasaki once said, "Well, there's Ringo the Yorkshire terrier, Melon the chihuahua, Clare the chihuahua, Maroon the miniature dachshund, Vanilla the chihuahua and Pudding the chihuahua."

Shukan Gendai notes that it found out the pop princess also owns Momo a Shiba, Bu-chan, a bulldog, and Choko, a long-haired chihuahua, meaning of the at least nine dogs she possesses, five are chihuahua -- a feat that has earned Hamasaki the moniker of the Chihuahua Queen.

A column Hamasaki writes for a fashion magazine combines the konnichiwa, the Japanese word for "hello," and her coveted canine to become Konnichihuahua. She dots the column with photos of her dogs and has even started appearing with her furry friends in photospreads for fashion magazines, becoming, in the magazine's words, a chihuahuaholic.

Rather than seeing Hamasaki as barking mad, young girls can't get onto the bandwagon quick enough.

"Hamasaki started the chihuahua boom, which was helped along by Ku-chan, a cute little chihuahua that appears in ads for (loanshark) Aiful," Keiji Masu, owner of Wanpaku Chihuahua, which specializes in sales of the rat-like dogs, tells Shukan Gendai. "Chihuahuas are selling now for about 230,000 to 240,000 yen, an average of about 40,000 to 50,000 yen more dearer that what they had been going for just a few months ago."

While dog sellers and girls may be pleased by Hamasaki's hampering for hounds, it's got many in the TV industry growling.

Hamasaki insists that her pampered pooches accompany her everywhere. As the same conditions apply for her hair stylist and make-up artists, every time she parades into a TV studio, she's followed by a literal retinue befitting a queen.

"While Ayu's working away for long hours, her dogs are cramped up in her dressing room, barking like mad and pooping everywhere," a production company employee tells Shukan Gendai. "We've got to take it in turns looking after the dogs. It's a bloody ridiculous situation."

At least one network, though, has countered the problem by creating a special canine-friendly dressing room for Ayu and her brood, but that has also raised some hackles.

"During one music show recording, Ayu insisted on a 'doggy break' and spent all but the few minutes she was supposed to appear inside her dressing room playing with her dogs," a source from the show says.

Hamasaki is also said to be petulant when it comes to her pooches, throwing tantrums if they're not given the royal treatment. But there have been lighter moments.

"An assistant director opened the door of the dressing room and it slammed into one of Ayu's dogs, which gave a terrified yelp. The assistant director threw himself to the floor in a kowtow, turned to the dog and began speaking to it in an honorific-packed, polite form of Japanese, apologizing and asking if it was hurt," the music program source tells Shukan Gendai. "At the time, the assistant director was petrified by how Ayu would react. A little later, though, he'd calmed down and was laughing at himself for having spoken to the dog using the politest form of Japanese possible."



http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/face/index.html

Woh.... neat article!
i guess AYu realli does loves her dogs

Thanks for the article biscuitgirl!

Hahaha oh man I hope it's not true that she's so in to her dogs it seems a little weird I mean talking very polite japanese to a dog cause you're afraid of how ayu would react haha oh please The guy didn't even do it on purpose.A simple "Sorry" is ok.

hehe funny. it's nice that ayu loves all her dogs. lucky lucky dogs... i want to be a dog for a day and go to ayu... :D :D

hmmmmmmmm ayu's dog having goodie life....

LoL! I Hate my dogs! I have to feed them and water them... I need to bathe them too... stinky dogs... Hehe! I guess Ayu loves her dogs so much. Even let other people watch them for her...

Hahaha! For me, i really can't stand my dog!
Every morning i wake up. I will saw dung laying around the kitchen!
I wonder how she can cope with 6 dogs!

here doggy...here doggy....come to ayu.....mmmmuahh....
i wonder how ayu plays with the dogs///...she must looks so caring...and herself...

Biscuit ...u r fabulous....thanxcz for the article....

Hmmm.... didnt really seem like a good article to me. It seems like they were making her look like a spoiled pop star

yeah...thnx for the article

i liked the article. :D

She sounds like Sharon Osbourne with those dogs, lol. I have no such obession with dogs, and I don't think I ever will. :laugh Thanks for the article

HAHAHA.. her dogs are pooping everywhere!! LMAO..

I dun like how they called her the "bubblegum" pop queen.. :mad

wish i could afford of own so many dogs

thanks! was Crea in it or did i miss it???

I think they might have made a mistake and called Crea "Clare." I'm just guessing it might be a mistake.

I think you are right. I don't recall Ayu having a dog named Clare, unless she got a new one.

they kinda made it sound like shes some spoiled little brat :/ I'm glad she's so obssessed with her dogs. I prefer dogs to cats. :P

Heh, I'd feel sorry for Ayu, but I remembered that she has other people clean up the dog crap for her :D

LOL I'm the opposite. I prefer cats than dogs. They're cleaner, they purr and make funny moves when you put them on a blanket plus they don't make a big fuss and don't make too much noise like dogs does hhahah:laugh That doesn't mean I don't like dogs though.

Hey I wouldn't consider Ayu's attitude to be spoiled. If any of you raised plants and someone stepped on them how would you be? She loves her dogs so she cares for them. Pretty normal for me.:P

i think the article made her behaviour sound *diva-ish* like j~lo or something... and they put clare, because in japanese its said kurea - CREA

Konnichihuahua!!!! LOL!!! :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao

I think it's funny how the guy who hit Ayu's dog with the door got on the floor and was asking the dog if it was okay! :laugh I think he was scared Ayu would come and get him or something!

Oh geez, If I hit one of her dogs I would be begging the dog for forgiveness and bowing down before it !! Hahaha, last thing I want is to look bad infront of Ayumi !!

too serious liao ar... its bad for pple to be scared of ayu. tat shows her temper is really terrifying. i hope ayu will control her temper and her demands...

it seems like Ayu can really blow since the assistant director was so afraid...i hope she doesn't show that side of her's too much...
her love for dogs is really serious...it's a good thing in a way...
lucky pooches...they're like royal canines..

I think even the sweetest person get mad if they see someone dear to them being hurt by another person.:laugh

Haha, its funny. Thanx Biscuitgirl!

i don't like the way they called her a "bubblegum pop queen" ~!!! that makes me mad. ayu is NOT that. her music actually has some meaning to it.

hehe yeah she's crazy about her dogs!

It's not surpising to hear this bout ayu..So many celebrities go crazy over their dogs..

I recently saw a pix of naomi watts (star of the ring) feeding her dog baby food.:confused

They can get their own limo's, hotel room, wear clothes tat cost a couple of hundred and stay at baby sitting places for like 400 bucks a day.

Being a celebrity dog is the best. They get to be spoil rotten.

Here's the pix with the article.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/fac...s/24ayu250.jpg
Has Ayu Hamasaki gone barking mad?

Ayu and her doggys
 

The following article talks about how ayu's dogs are given royal treatment:

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/face/index.html

Hey mim, i already posted this!

i guess maybe CREA is just the katakana way, ie the japanese way, of calling Clara??

well consider all the stress ayu is having from work, i won't be surprised if the reports are true....itz just too stressful and hard for anyone to lead a crazy life like that...working non-stop with so much stress on say helping avex make big bucks etc etc

o.o;
Where did you get that pic biscuitgirl?

Not sure, but wouldn't the Japanese way be Kurara? CREA would be Kurea. :shrug not sure

im quoting myself, because i already mentioned... in japanese clare = kurea = CREA hehe :p

yes, clare is written as kurea, umm not really, usually when you want to say write clare in japanese katakana, it would be written as kureaa, not kurea... and i'm only guessing but, i think ayu quote the name crea for her canine from the honda tv cm she starred... ya know.. with the song 'too late', but i'm definitely sure what ayu means by kurea is crea and not clare

one thing tho... where's purin? an who's pudding?

hehehe i read this before except it was on www.tokyodv.com but still I liked it :) makes me wish i was one of her doggies

Wow, Ayu really does love her dogs. I think it was really funny how they reffered to her as the Chihuahua Queen though. LOL :laugh

What an amusing artical. It shows she relly loves her dogs, like other people have said!
I wouldn't mind being one of her dogs with the treatment they would get. Ahh, fit for a queen or king..lol :laugh

some people just treat dogs as if they were human..... and vice versa.

Well if that's how she treats her dogs, imagine how she'd treat her children? Like royalty :P

haha funny~! and where did that source go???
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/face/index.html <--- that link is wrong?

> < she's got spoiled dogs!!! OMG!! THOSE LUCKY DOGS!!!! > >;; ayu has a LOT of chihuahuas... o.o;;

maybe not because dogs can't talk back XDD

haha light hearted reading , thanks for popping it up again Qt Mashi ^^

yeah, ppl should source direcctly to the article's page instead the main page of th enews site.

if ayu treats her dogs this good, she will probably treat her future kids really well. I would like tobe spoiled too!

It's nice that Ayu loves her dogs, but this is an obsession. And it's so unprofessional to bring a ton of dogs to work with you.
I mean, I don't bring my dogs to school! And to force those TV studios to have to get a special room just for her....this makes Ayu seem really spoiled. Like a little child who can't live with his Power Ranger toys.
I know it's cute to love your dog and have so many, but this....is just bratty.

And as much as I love Ayu, I would have to agree. There's a time and a place for everything. And if she can't have a time for all her dogs, she shouldn't have them all. It's unprofessional to be carting them around all the time just for her happiness and not with some well being for the animals.

So Ayu--- stop treating them that way. They're dogs. C'mon now...!

If all the ayu fans are going out to buy dogs like hers now, how long will it be before all these fan dogs are cast aside for when a new "fad" animal comes it? :(

i think AYU! is very lucky she can afford so many dogs but i cant :grumpy

Now what if her future kid(s) fights over with her dogs? ..ponders..

omg i dont like kids :irked eventhough i used to be one myself :thud kids are evil, they will make ure dog suffer

:laugh people do treat their dogs like this... my aunt has a white scottish terrier and she spoils him, he's her 'baby'. Seriously. I visited her house in September and she and I were sitting on her small couch [it's not a wide one], and the dog just kept staring at me and barked at me because he wanted me to move so he could take up most of the space on it. I wasn't going to move for just him, so I just sat there :laugh I mean, he really is spoiled - she won't give him tapwater like most, no, he gets evian water...

I guess you wait till your're all grown up to have your dog now? cute...

thank you very much for this articel!!
:)

That's sooooooooo cute, that's a great article you got there ^o^!! But wow... that's kinda disturbing... 9 dogs, I'm not a fan of dogs, except for small ones like Ayu's but doesn't a house begin to smell when one gets up to 9 in their house?

I can't say I really liked the article. It just reinforces all the stereotypes about celebrities who have so much money they don't know what to do with it and then demand special treatment for themselves and their dogs. I feel bad for the guys who actually have to take care of them. It seems like Ayumi just gets to experience the fun part of it all. Plus, I hate dogs and I agree with a lot of people that Ayumi seems spoiled in this instance.

thanks for the article!

all i have to say is that i'm getting all of those dogs with the exact same names!!

hahhaha very nice read, thanks for the article :)

so cute.

her dogs rock! crea, aww.

Hello, this article is ancient. Of course the link is wrong now. Where do you people pull these things from? Seriously. (Sorry if that sounded harsh!)

thank you!

If the it was a direct link to the article it will still work. The URL will be something like .../"date of the article + article number".html

Um, well, when I originally posted this over a year ago, I only linked to the main page where the article was at the time. So there!

never saw this article till today... haha.. it perked me up effectively!! so much poop???? eww~~

i brought this thread back up again because i thought it was funny and i think many people would wanna read it too :P

hahhaha yeah it is a cute read ^^ i love the way she loves her puppies... i think she is a natural animal lover? wonders if any dogs has ever reject her??

pretty cute ^.^ well she must really love her dogs!

^

Well, she does call them her children, so she do like them a whole lot. ^^

which dog is clare???...i think he/she made a mistake /__\ ...it should be CREA
i dont think her dogs will poop everywhere...unless they are wild animals...

LOL thats hilarious. I love the episode of heyheyhey! where they're talking about choco (the longhaired chihuahua) and she goes NUTS when she sees him on the screen....and then later it gets kicked in the butt by another dog :P

^ oh can i see that epsiode?
anyways finally found the source http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/face/0304/24ayu.html

^ weeee!
Thanks for digging that up.