Your morning adorable: Dog plays iPad hockey

Animals and iPads: It's a match made in heaven.

It's already been well established that cats love Apple's new tablet computers, and a dolphin researcher in Mexico has even begun using the device as a means of communicating with a 2-year-old bottlenose dolphin named Merlin.

OK, so YouTube user nickbilton's dog Pixel isn't quite on Merlin the dolphin's iPad proficiency level yet; we're impressed, nonetheless, by his prowess with an iPad hockey game.

We don't envy nickbilton for the doggie noseprints we're sure he later had to wipe off his iPad, though.

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-- Lindsay Barnett

Video: nickbilton via YouTube