The “Mango String Dog”

A Brazilian term for the exactly the kind of dog you are thinking of.

So I recently stumbled onto this video, that talked about this Brazilian term for a certain type of dog.

fiapo de mango

It’s called a “mango string dog”, and if you’ve ever cut a mango you’ll know exactly what kind of dog qualifies.

The dog looks as follows:

fiapo de manga, aka “mango string dog”

And there are a couple of things I love.

I love a term that makes you think for a second, but when you see an example you know exactly what it means.

I LOVE the pictures of these dog.

I love that it plays into Brazil’s known history of creating mythology around a type of dog (see “vira-lata caramelo”, or “licks cans caramel”)