friendly relationship knows no metal money !
Do you require your heart warmed ? Because , Baby , I ’m here and ready to help .
Gunner is agolden retrieverand a Very Good Boy . Delta is a bottlenose dolphin and also , presumably , very safe . Back in June , Twitter substance abuser @_woollyback posted a tweet that record " sorry to interrupt , important news show . " The important news ? A photo of Gunner lean over the water to give Delta a big lick to the side of his snout . As one might expect from the power of Dog + Dolphin Friends , the pic was an instant winner , with 1.2 million likes and over 228,000 retweets so far .
Another Twitter account shared the photo again this week with the same subtitle , according toNewsweek . And the new attention has give all of us a wise hazard to apprize the thoroughgoing joy of animals being friends with one another . But now , as Paul Harvey used to say , it ’s time for the relief of the story . Because it turns out that this photo was n’t just a one - off encounter : Gunner and Delta have been friends for years !
Gunner ’s human companion , Marie Blanton , works at the Dolphin Research Center in Miami , where Delta lives .
" I ’ve been a trainer at DRC for almost 10 years so I would bring him with me to work when he was really picayune , " Blanton toldtheEvening Standardin 2020 . " I want to expose him to all type of people and other animal . From the very first moment he met the dolphinfish , he was calm around them and very curious . "
Even though she brings Gunner in less often now that he ’s older and bigger , the dyad have remained fast acquaintance , with Gunnar running to Delta ’s enclosure as presently as he ’s on website . Then they share some quality time together .
In response to the photo ’s first rung of viral celebrity , theDolphin Research Centerposted photos of Gunner and Delta meeting as an 8 - workweek - old pup and a 4 - year - sure-enough , well , dolphin , along with an update pic of them together in 2020 . Everything about this level is absolutely delightful and if the world could give us 300 more days of exactly this , 2021 might turn over out to be OK after all .
