Emily pets the dog and frownsWell like I said. It's brutal. You see Ino here, well she's dead. Been dead for centuries now. What you see right now isn't what she really looks like. You see, one can make a dog into a rather powerful familiar by first, starving a dog, until it's at it's greatest moment of desperation and rage for food, then you chop off it's head. Then you bury it's head under a busy road where many people tread-and let them walk over it adding to it's pain and anger. This normally causes the dog to come back as a VERY angry spirit. After all, peaceful deaths and painless ones typically don't make ghosts. Then once it becomes a spirit you take the head, bake it, put it in a shrine and BAM. You bind yourself a very powerful ghost dog familiar.
My Aunt made Ino here doing that from what I was told. Like I said, not pleasant. Very cruel and nasty dark magic. Then when my aunt retired she passed her down to me. She's as smart as a person honestly, why she's such a good partner.
Not so fun fact-this is supposedly a legend on how such a familiar was created. Please, do not try this, as it is VERY disturbing and needlessly cruel.