A group of four UK men have made friends with their neighbour's pooch, in a heart-warming post that’s gone viral on social media.
The boys, who live next door to residents with a four-legged friend, asked to be able to look after and walk the dog, in a series of images uploaded to Twitter last week.
“Been saying we’d love a dog about the house but our landlord doesn’t allow pets," one of the men, Jack McCrossan, wrote on Twitter.
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"So my housemate posted a letter to our neighbours asking if we could walk their dog every once and a while, and the response was better than we could have ever hoped for."
In an image of a typed letter, the men explain they are four engineers who had moved in to the area in the past few months.
“The other day, we noticed a four-legged friend looking at us out the window when we arrived home from work," they say in the letter.
“He or she looked like the good-est boy/girl there is.”
Walkies?
The men write on, offering to walk the dog or look after it.
“If you want to come over and bring him/ her to brighten up our day, you are more than welcome,” they wrote.
"We’ve all grown up with animals. The adult life is a struggle without one.”
In a handwritten reply letter, written from the dog's perspective and posted with a paw mark, the pooch, Stevie, introduces herself.
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“What a treat it was a to receive your letter!” the letter reads.
“I come from Cyprus originally but Chris and Sarah rescued me from a cage in the ‘doggy hotel'."
Stevie describes herself as very friendly, but also gives a warning.
"I love meeting new people and it would be great if we could be friends," the letter says.
"I must warn you that the price of my friendship is 5 x ball throws a day and belly scritches whenever I demand them.
"Give my servant Chris a Whatsapp and we can arrange a meet up."
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The tweet and images went viral on social media after being posted, with the post receiving more than 108,000 retweets and almost 500,000 likes.
Five days after the first post was tweeted, McCrossan uploaded an image with of the four men with Stevie - and the internet’s heart warmed.
"You boys are making this (grandma) cry," one person said in a reply.
"What an innovative way to have canine companionship."
"This is what a neighbour should be like," another person said.