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Reunion ‘kiss’ between dog and dolphin
Gunner the dog and Delta the dolphin have been friends for years.
Is there anything – anything – cuter than inter-species friendships? If you think the answer is yes, these photos of Gunner the dog reuniting with his best friend, Delta the dolphin, will change your mind. Over the last few days, social media users have been gushing over pictures of Gunner and Delta that have gone insanely viral everywhere – from Twitter to Facebook to Instagram. Their crazy popularity is not without reason either, because who doesn’t love a good friendship story? Especially, one that involves two of the most adored animals on the Internet.
Gunner and Delta’s ‘aww-dorable’ friendship began when the dog was just an eight-week-old puppy. At that time, Delta the dolphin was four-years-old.
The two met at the Dolphin Research Centre in Florida Keys, which is a non-profit organisation home to a family of dolphins and sea lions. Gunner, who belongs to one of the organisation’s employees, was photographed meeting Delta six years ago, when the dolphin poked its head out of water to greet the pooch.
Almost a week ago, the two were filmed reuniting in photos that were sure to brighten your day. In the pictures, which have created a huge splash on social media with millions of ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ on social media, Gunner the goldie was seen happily licking its water buddy.
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
