We might call it puppy love, but these two lovely friends can’t seem to keep their paws apart.

A pair of inseparable stray puppies have melted hearts on social media after being adopted by Buddhist nuns in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The eldest pup is shown protecting a shrine inside the temple where his friend is held in his paws.

Another image depicts the dog in a Zen pose next to a Buddhist statue, hinting that he is studying meditation with the Masters.

The temple apparently took the pair of dogs after they were abandoned on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and was given a new chance at life.

As a reaction to people, hundreds of comments gushing on dog friends flooded the social networking site Weibo.

‘Because the dogs are now in the temple, you should sit in meditation like nuns,’said one user.

Others scolded the former owners of puppies for abandoning them.

I’m not sure how people can be so cruel. They shouldn’t have acquired dogs in the first place if they couldn’t take care of them!’

However, the opposite gossip on social media has brought the suffering of dogs into question.

A monk from the Bao Hua Son Temple in Khanh Hua province, according to a Twitter source, rescued them.

“Those puppies were born in that temple in Vietnam, and the nuns taught them to stand up and hug each other,”said Mira Eleonora pantazopol loredanescu, a philologist at the Faculty of linguistics in Bucharest, painting a darker picture.

“There is no happy ending for dead little black Matt because they don’t have any kind of veterinary treatment there for the animals they have,” said loredanescu, who uses her Facebook account to expose alleged animal frauds.