A police rescue dog turned mascot in Brazil has become a viral sensation on social media platforms.
Cristiano Oliveira, a police officer in Rio de Janeiro, found the dog near his police station about three years ago.
According to Reuters, the officer met the dog abandoned, injured, and hungry.
With intense training, the dog, christened ‘Corporal Oliveira’, has become popular among social media users in Brazil.
The dog, currently the official mascot of Rio de Janeiro’s 17th batallion, usually patrols alongside Cristiano while running beside motorbikes.
As police mascot, Corporal Oliveira is often clad in a police uniform with a toy gun strapped in and sunglasses.
On how the dog became viral, Cristiano said: “I took a coat, a police shirt and put it on him as a joke. I took a picture and sent it to our station’s roster groups and posted them there. And then the joke started going viral.”
“If I don’t post a picture for three days people are already demanding ‘Where is Oliveira?’ ‘Where did Oliveira go?’”
The dog has its own Instagram page with more than 120,000 followers.
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