When you welcome a new bundle of joy in your life and home, you expect your life to be completely flipped upside down, but you usually think the biggest challenge of all would be the lack of sleep. For a couple who became parents for the first time, the biggest challenge came from their Golden Retriever, Laura.
The moment the baby was brought home, Laura turned into a full time nanny, and that wouldn’t be a bad thing if her behavior didn’t become worrying to the parents.
Well, the parents did expect the dog to be loving and protective, but to them, it felt like Laura’s protective instinct crossed over into behavior that was sort of bizarre, and honestly, even a little unsettling, too.
Everything began within the first month after the baby came home. For an entire week, the parents had witnessed a trend emerging. No matter what, every single night, right when it got dark in the house, Laura would walk to the baby’s crib and simply stand there like a living statue. She didn’t settle down on the floor, fall asleep, or even walk to the kitchen to have some water from her bowl. Instead, she stood upright, starring through the wooden bars of the crib, sometimes emitting whining noises.
Initially, they brushed their worries aside and tried to convince themselves that Laura was just adorable and loved the baby too much.
However, after several days passed by, it became anything but that. The dog’s nocturnal routine became very disturbing. She would wait until the sun rose while the parents slept in their room. The most puzzling part about the situation was that during the day, Laura would behave just like any other pet. She would eat, play with her toys, rest on the couch, and nothing seemed to worry her. It was only after the night came that Laura started acting strange.
“What’s going on?” the mom asked her husband one night, “I’m starting to be seriously scared here. What if something’s wrong? Do we need to take her to a veterinarian?”
In an attempt to find out why their dog behaved so strangely, they finally decided to put a night vision video camera to see what was really going on during the night.
