A Four-Year-Old Girl’s Best Friend...An 80-Pound Doberman Pincher

For this four year-old girl, instead of a little kitten - her playmate is a large doberman, a breed best known as aggressive guard dogs.

Siena Brucher from Seattle and her loyal dog, Buddha, have achieved online fame through photos of their friendship on the Instagram account, Cutie and the Beast

Her mother, Tara told Today.com: ‘Dobermans are also known as Velcro dogs. They just want to be with their one human. And he has obviously chosen my daughter.

‘She doesn’t have a single toy or play set she adores. For her, that’s Buddha.’

Here are Siena and Buddha sharing a little joke…

(Picture: Instagram/Cutie and the Beast)

Her mother Tara spoke of the popularity of the Instagram account: ‘I took a ton of photos and wanted to share them with everyone.

'And then all these random people became diehard fans.’

(Picture: Instagram/Cutie and the Beast)

Siena does seem to make a quality pillow - looks like Buddha has got her well trained.

(Picture: Instagram/Cutie and the Beast)

Don’t know if dogs can read but Buddha’s making the effort.

(Picture: Instagram/Cutie and the Beast)