People sometimes say that dogs and their owners look alike. British photographer Gerrard Gethings took that idea a step further, finding human lookalikes for 25 dogs and photographing them in strikingly similar poses.

The results are hilarious. From matching hairstyles to nearly identical expressions, some portraits look so convincing you’d swear the humans and dogs are related.

Take Monica and Reggie, the pair featured in this article’s lead photograph. Reggie is a Chow Chow with a plush coat and a distinctive blue tongue. Monica has a similar hair color, but her bright blue tongue completes the illusion.

Finding the perfect human match wasn’t easy

The portraits were created for Do You Look Like Your Dog?, a memory card game published by Laurence King in 2018. The game features 25 pairs of human and canine lookalikes, with........

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