Item:Stone lion-dog (New Horizons)

The stone lion-dog is a customizable houseware furniture item in. As an outdoor item, it will provide an additional 0.5 development points towards the island rating.

The stone lion-dog can be obtained from crafting, which requires. The recipe for this item can be obtained from smug villagers, either when they are crafting in their house, or when the player receives their message bottle from the beach. The item's variation can be customized either by using 3 s or by Cyrus at Harv's Island for Bells 3800.

Variations
The stone lion-dog has 3 variations.

Version differences
Prior to version, the stone lion-dog variant body part was named "Color".

Real-world information
Stone lion statues, or commonly referred to as are a traditional ornament found in. The statues were originally from and were popularized and spread through other Asian regions, including but not limited to, , and. These statues would be installed in order to protect a building from harmful spirits or people.

In traditional fêng shui standards, two stone lions, one male and the other female, should be installed. The male should be placed on the right with a ball on his right paw, while the female should be placed on the left, with her cub under her left paw. The cub on the left female statue often symbolizes nurture, while the ball on the right male statue symbolizes supremacy.

However, the stone lion-dog in does not have any sort of object lying on either their paws. Because of this, it is assumed that when two stone lion-dog statues are placed that both lions are.

== References ==
 * Includes data sourced from the ACNH Spreadsheet project (Spreadsheet - Translations)