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But they do look cute........!

Thank you to Anna-Roisin for providing us with the photos........ :-)

When Harriet and Andrew Athay got married, in their mind there was only one choice for their best man - their beloved dog Ed.

And Ed wasn't the only canine guest of honour - the couple's two female dogs, Humbug and Goulash, also walked with them down the aisle.

Ed wore his very own miniature tuxedo for the big day, while whippet Humbug and Hungarian vizsla Goulash had pink sparkly collars.

Harriet and Andrew felt it was fitting that the doggy trio should be at their wedding because it was they who had brought them together in the first place.

The couple first met while they were walking their respective dogs along Mudeford Beach in Dorset in August 2007. As their dogs played with each other, Andrew and Harriet stopped to chat for a few minutes - and from this moment it was love at first sight. Congratulations to the happy couple.

A Chinese zoo has given an orphan monkey its own guard dog to stop it being repeatedly bullied by bigger primates.

Keepers at Jiaozuo City Zoo said the monkey was always being bullied and only their intervention had helped to save its life.

"We put a dog in the monkey cage, hoping he can protect the orphan," a zoo spokesman told the China News Network. The zoo praised the dog, Sai Hu, for its protective work.

The spokesman continued: "Whenever the baby monkey gets bullied, he dashes up and drives the others away. And the baby monkey is also very smart. Each time he smells danger he runs to jump on the dog's back and holds on tight.

"The alpha male monkey has been really unhappy since we sent in Sai Hu. He tried to organise several ambushes on the little monkey, but they all failed because of the dog," he also added.