What do you do when you’re a professional sports commentator but there are virtually no sports going on because of a global pandemic?
If you’re the BBC’s Andrew Cotter, you get creative at home. He recently took to Twitter with voiceovers of his two dogs’ daily jostling.
He narrated an eating competition between Olive and Mabel for a video posted to Twitter. “I was bored,” he wrote.
The video proved massively popular. So far it’s attracted 9.8 million views on the platform along with nearly 340,000 likes and over 90,000 retweets.
It went over so well, in fact, that Cotter made another video, this one featuring the same labradors but a different event. “Some sports are slower. More about the strategy,” he wrote of the contest in which the dogs vie for a toy.
The second video attracted even more attention, garnering 17.6 million views on Twitter along with 645,000 likes and nearly 180,000 retweets.
Cotter told Telegraph Sport: “I did it for my own amusement essentially, but thought I might get a few retweets.”