A DEAD dog and a dolphin washed up on Chesil Beach this week after stormy weather.

Dorset Waste Partnership said they picked up the heavily decomposed remains of the animals on Monday.

They have been unable to trace the dog to any owner.

A spokesperson from the partnership said: “We scanned the dog for a chip but did not find anything. We do this with any animal we find because a chip will have a vet’s details on it and we can use that information to trace the owner.

“The people who removed the dog said they thought it looked like a young Staffordshire Bull Terrier, but it was hard to tell.

“Unfortunately, there was no report of a missing dog that matched the description.”

The dolphin was missing a part of its head when its remains were reported.

The spokesperson said: “We get a lot of marine wildlife washed up from storms.

"If it is relatively intact, we leave it to be washed back out but, in this instance, because they were both so badly decomposed, we had to take it and the dog to landfill.

“People just think that we do the bins but unfortunately when something like this washes up on the beach, we are the people who have to deal with that as well.”