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So how did this duckling duo end up thinking a dog was their parent? It turns out it wasn’t part of the original plan when Frances Marsh, 25, and her family bought two two-day-old ducklings at a local garden center near their home in Atlantic Beach, N.C.

Yogi, the family’s 5-year-old Corgi, was in the car that day and was instantly fascinated by the family’s purchase.

“They were in a little box. He just leaned his head over and licked them,” Marsh said.

Ever since, the ducklings, Biggie and Pac (short for Tupac), have chosen to follow Yogi, as if he were their mother.

Why Yogi has returned the love may be the real mystery.

“Dogs are pretty smart, but I’m not going to try to hypothesize,” said Hallanger. “But he’s obviously bonded with the ducklings. It might just be part of his nature.”

There’s no question in Marsh’s mind, though: “He thinks they’re his babies.”

Marsh says Yogi has been known to sleep beside the ducklings’ box, herd them gently by pushing them with his nose, and once even barked to alert her that one of ducklings had gotten stuck on its back.

For now, at nearly two months old and losing their signature yellow baby-fluff, the trio is still inseparable and living as one big, happy, interspecies family.

Photo credits: Frances Marsh

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