Facebook bans user’s puppy photo, and it’s all just a hilarious misunderstanding

An animal lover was baffled after a photo of his 3-day-old puppy was banned from Facebook for ‘violating community standards.’

Seeing as Facebook is roughly 15% pet photos, how could this happen?

Well, here’s the image shared by 16-year-old Dominic Ibaos that sent the social network’s censor squad’s heads a-spinning:

Dominic only realised it could be mistaken for something else after the same photograph was banned from a local animal lovers group. Luckily he saw the funny side after he shared the notification online, causing the penis-lookalike puppy went viral with more than 60,000 retweets, likes and shares.

However the teenager joked that it was hard for him to see his puppy, a rare Xoloitzcuintli breed named Dimitri, as a penis.

“I got a notification saying it had been blocked a few minutes after I posted it to the group,” Dominic told the Mirror. “It’s really hard for me to see the penis perspective because when I look at it, I always just see the puppy.”