Per the site, the use of the misspelled word "doge" to refer to a dog dates to June 24, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner's puppet show. Fans of the doge meme and ...

But for the moment, my Official Linguist Pronunciation Advice on the word doge is "You know that meme? With the shiba inus? Doh-something? Yeah, that one." How do you pronounce it?

The memes continued to populate social media ... dog’) is a small to medium Japanese breed of hunting dog. “Kabosu” is a Japanese word referring to a type of citrus fruit.