A Pawleys Island pup is achieving YouTube viral stardom thanks to her encounter with a very engaging ghost crab on the beach.

The video of Madeline, a daschshund puppy, changing a ghost crab on the beach has been viewed by nearly 800,000 times since August 2011 and featured by some national media .  To read an interview with her owners and hear recounted details of that crabby day, head on over to WPDE.

A few interesting places Madeline showed up...

• The Huffington Post
• The Long and Short of it, a New Zealand-based daschshund-focused blog
• Good Morning America