Hi, I'm Suka
I'm a Chihuahua. I was born in Canada, spent a year and a half living in Italy, now live in London, and I've been to more countries than I've had baths.
I started my Instagram so people could see the world from about 20 centimetres off the ground. It turns out the world looks a lot like ankles. But it also looks like Venice, Seoul, Jeju, Tokyo, Kyoto, Athens, Paris, Los Angeles and the Dolomites, and I've been carried through all of them.
Along the way I picked up a few things: a taste for cashmere, a strong dislike of pigeons, a rap single, and around 36,000 followers who enjoy watching a very small dog look unimpressed in very nice places.
This site is my home on the internet. The blog is where I write about where I've been and how to travel with a dog without losing your mind. The shop is where I sell things with my face on them, which is the dream, honestly.
Timeline
- Feb 2018
Born
Arrives on 28 February in Canada. Immediately starts expecting to be carried.
- 2018 to 2019
Toronto
A Yorkville regular, with weekends in Montreal and Muskoka and a night at the Omni King Edward.
- Jul 2019
Moves to London
Chiltern Firehouse, Regent's Park, Royal Windsor Racecourse, Hampton Court and a day out at Winchester College.
- Nov 2019
The accident
A jump off a chair turns into five months of surgery and recovery. More on that below.
- 2020 to 2021
London and West Sussex
Fully healed by April 2020, then lockdown life between London and the Sussex countryside. Paris and the Eiffel Tower in summer 2021.
- Oct 2021 to early 2023
A year and a half in Italy
Lives in the Veneto near Padua. Venice, Verona, Vicenza, Milan, Rome and Modena, plus side trips to Salzburg, Skiathos and ski season in Madonna di Campiglio.
- Spring 2023
Six weeks in Korea
Seoul and Busan, and her first hanbok.
- Summer 2023
Back to the UK
Paris, then Sivota in Greece, then home to London: Chelsea, Harrods and Burlington Arcade.
- 2024
The big year
Toronto, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Joshua Tree in May. Athens and Costa Navarino. Paris. Rome, Florence, Siena and Tuscany over the summer.
- Autumn 2024
Korea again, then Japan
Another six weeks in Korea, this time Seoul, Busan and Jeju Island. Then Japan: Tokyo, Mount Fuji, Kyoto and Osaka, and a meeting with Hachiko.
- 2025
Skis, sun and California
The Dolomites in February, Greece and the Louvre in August, then a California road trip through Sequoia, Santa Monica and Hollywood, and back to Toronto for autumn.
- 2026
Still going
Chelsea Flower Show, Goodwoof, a summer in Sivota and Parga, and this website.
The comeback
On 5 November 2019 I jumped off a chair and fractured my front left leg. I needed surgery and pins in the bone, and that should have been the end of it.
It wasn't. After the operation a rash appeared on my belly and back legs and turned into a necrotic wound. For around five weeks it kept getting worse. I lost 40% of my body weight, needed a feeding tube for protein, spent time in an oxygen tank when fluid built up in my lungs, and lost a lot of skin and a tiny piece of the tip of my tongue.
From 9 December things turned. The skin started to heal, most of it could be stitched closed, and I came home on 20 December, with a sedated bandage change every other day. My vets were incredible, and I'm still a little bit smug about the methadone memes.
By April 2020, five and a half months later, I was healed: no more open wounds, no more pins, back to sunbathing, bully sticks and my toys. The skin on my back left leg is a bit tight, and I'm a lot more careful about chairs.
"The comeback is always stronger than the setback."Read the original post
The single
Lil Suka
SBK feat. the world's smallest hype woman
Yes, there is a rap song about her. No, she did not write the verses. She did approve them.
Famous faces
