Twitter falls in love with Bentley the adorable Ebola dog ... except it's not him

Awww! Ebola patient Nina Pham’s puppy, Bentley, sure is adorable!

GUYS. RT @iAustinHunt: Bentley, the Ebola dog, looks very, very sad in quarantine pic.twitter.com/JL2SzmfVL4

— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) October 15, 2014

NOOOOOO MT @nypost: Bentley, the puppy of an Ebola patient in Dallas, is being closely monitored in quarantine http://t.co/6XvXe0NKLe

— Toenails (@joetoenails) October 15, 2014

OMG GIMME, PLEASE. RT @scottbix: I don't care if Bentley has Ebola – I love him http://t.co/cYb1sJedwm http://t.co/N4XStaZdsS

— Imma tweet about COVID-19 a lot ??‍♀️ (@T_dot_Lee_PhD) October 15, 2014

By an amazing coincidence, the same image was posted to Reddit eight days ago — before anyone knew Nina Pham had Ebola.

https://twitter.com/ajs/status/522461100043141121

And here’s the same photo on Pinterest 16 weeks ago.

Fortunately, the White House is all over it:

https://twitter.com/samir/status/522463226924384256