Instagram Fawns Over French Bulldog Named Sir Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley plays basketball and stars in Taco Bell commercialsSir Charles Barkley plays with chew toys and racks up orange hearts on Instagram.

It should probably be noted that the latter Barkley is a French Bulldog.

The adorable dog has charmed his thousands of Instagram fans with a stream of awwww-triggering photographs. Barkley's best human pals, Paul and Melissa, started the account for Barkley to avoid new parents' social media syndrome (you know, the flood of photos)

"We didn’t want to blow up our own Instagram accounts with his pics," Melissa told Mashable. "He ended up gaining more followers than we ever expected and that’s when we realized we really have to keep up with his account."