Story highlights Rami has become a social media sensation

"It is a true pit bull head on a dachshund body," Dawn Blanton says

(CNN) What if a dachshund and a pit bull got together?

That's the way the joke would open, pairing the most unlikely of canine partners -- the short legged, long bodied dachshund with the larger, stronger pit bull.

But Rami is proof that the match has happened.

"It is a true pit bull head on a dachshund body," said Dawn Blanton of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Humane Society in south Georgia.

A man found the dog, now named Rami, wandering in his backyard. He called the shelter and described him as a "pit bull with short legs," Blanton told CNN affiliate WALB.

Read More