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Mom Can't Find Dog During Baby's First Night in Crib—Then She Checks Camera
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A mother, unable to locate the family dog, was left in tears once she spotted him on the baby monitor.
Jenn Doyle and her husband recently put their 3-month-old baby to bed in her crib, hoping she would sleep there through the night for her very first time. They kept the baby monitor nearby. And while it was going smoothly, panic set in when they couldn't find their first baby, their golden retriever.
Doyle told Newsweek via TikTok that she ran around the house looking for him to let him outside before going to bed, but he was nowhere to be found.
"I kept calling his name and he couldn't come, which is so unlike him," she said. "Then I heard him shake his head and his collar jingled on the baby monitor..."
That sound made it dawn on her: the dog snuck into the baby's room. To confirm her suspicions, she turned to the baby monitor and used the buttons to move the camera around, checking where the dog could be hiding.
Doyle shared in a June 8 TikTok video, under her account @jenndoyle13, what she discovered in the baby's room, which didn't take long. The dog sat underneath the baby's crib as she peacefully slept. Keeping his head up and looking forward, he went on watch duty to protect his tiny human.
She admitted that she shouldn't have surprised her in the first place. The couple's dog has always been by their baby's side since day one.
"I cried, I thought it was sooo cute!" she said. "He has been so protective of her and never leaves her side. It's adorable."
Screenshots from a June 8 TikTok video of a mother finding the dog sitting next to the baby's crib while she was sleeping.
Screenshots from a June 8 TikTok video of a mother finding the dog sitting next to the baby's crib while she was sleeping.
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With over 178,200 views and 25,200 likes on TikTok as of Monday, people fell head over heels for this dog's protectiveness during the baby's first night in her crib. Many thought this was a perfect example of how humans "don't deserve dogs."
"He's working the night shift," said a viewer, while a second added: "Oh my gosh, he's standing watch. That's too cute."
Another commented: "That dog can't believe you would let that baby sleep alone lol! So adorable!"
Even the official TikTok account for Chewy chimed in: "Yeah, so I'm sobbing now..."
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