Name: This dog and dolphin's love for each other will warm your heart
Uploaded: 2016-11-17T13:28:34+00:00
Description: Duggie the dolphin and Ben the dog are inseparable.

This dog and dolphin's love for each other will warm your heart

Duggie the dolphin and Ben the dog are inseparable.

They say a dog is man's best friend, right? Well, in this case the dog's best friend is a dolphin.

Ben the dog and Duggie the dolphin have been gathering quite a fanbase online after a video showing their friendship was posted to the Facebook page "Rare Irish Stuff."

Apparently Ben the labrador swims to the harbour of Tory Island, off the northwest coast of Ireland, every day to meet his best bud Duggie, who sadly lost his dolphin mate a wee while ago.

The pair have been captured frolicking in the water by sightseers and they hang out for hours at a time. So strong is their friendship, that Duggie won't even join passing dolphin pods.

Now that's what you call loyalty!

Topics Animals

Anne-Marie Tomchak

Anne-Marie Tomchak is the UK Editor of Mashable, where she heads up the company's operations from London. She has spent over a decade reporting and presenting for national and international broadcasters including the BBC, RTE, Deutsche Welle, American Public Media and NPR. In 2013, Anne-Marie launched the social media investigative unit BBC Trending. During her time at the corporation, she also developed the mobile video offering on the BBC News app and fronted live social broadcasts. Anne-Marie is a leading digital media voice contextualizing the role of technology in the modern world. She has made a number of feature length TV documentaries for Ireland's national broadcaster RTE in her capacity as UK Editor for Mashable, including ‘Cloud Control: Who Owns Your Data?’ (Nov 2016) about big data and digital fingerprints and “Will A Robot Steal My Job” (Nov 2017) about the impact of AI and automation on the workforce. The Irish Times listed her as '30 Irish Women You Need to Know' for International Women's Day and she is one of Silicon Republic's '30 Incredible Irish people leading a European invasion'.