A castaway cocker spaniel and his companion, a macaw parrot, were rescued by Norwegian Cruise Line workers from a tiny atoll about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii.

Snickers, an 8-month-old dog, survived 95 days adrift on a 48-foot boat then four months of being stranded on Fanning Island, one of 33 scattered coral atolls that make up the remote island nation of Kiribati.

Snickers and the parrot, Gulliver, were abandoned by their shipwrecked owners Jerry and Darla Merrow when they were rescued by a cargo vessel last December. The vessel wouldn't allow the pup and the macaw on board.

According to an Associated Press report, Norwegian Cruise Line workers rescued Snickers from Fanning on April 9 and dropped him off on Oahu island on Hawaii where he is being held on quarantine.

Hawaiian Airlines has since volunteered to bring Snickers to Los Angeles for free. The castaway turned celebrity is set to arrive within the next three days, said AP.

Gulliver's rescue, on the other hand, has yet to come full circle.Animal rights' groups are planning to move him to Christmas Island, which is near Fanning, and eventually transport him to L.A., one of only two ports in the U.S. that allow entry of exotic birds.