The Camera Recorded The Boy Sneaking Out Of Bed To Cuddle With His Dog

This is the adorable moment a toddler snuggles up with his ‘best friend’, boxer dog Brutus, instead of lying in his own bed.

Nighttime camera footage captured 23-month-old Finn Knudston grabbing bedsheets and a teddy bear before climbing into Brutus’ basket and curling up next to the dog.

Mother-of-four Paige installed cameras at her Richmond, Virginia home to discover why her son slept in the same bed with his four-year-old dog every night.

Cô cho biết cặp đôi đã không thể tách rời kể từ ngày con trai cô xuất viện về nhà. Finn sinh ra đã bị dị tật tim và cần phải phẫu thuật khẩn cấp để cứu mạng. 

Trong video, cậu bé dường như đã đợi tất cả đèn tắt trước khi thực hiện chuyến đi bí mật đến chiếc giỏ của người bạn thân nhất.

After climbing in Finn lies across the dog’s rump several times, trying to get comfortable, before also trying to sit on its back.

Brutus barely moves while his bed-mate fidgets, and appears to remain fast asleep.

Mother Paige said: ‘Finn just started sleeping in his ‘big boy bed’ a little over a month ago which is when Brutus began crawling up and sleeping in bed every night; it was as if he laid next to him to prevent him from rolling out of bed.

‘Finn then began climbing out of his bed and sleeping on his floor, so naturally Brutus began sleeping next to him there as well.

‘The dog bed came into play recently so we now have one downstairs and one upstairs, which eventually made it into Finn’s room and the rest was history.’

Paige added that she felt the dog had started sleeping next to Finn because it felt he needed extra protection.  

‘When I was 20 weeks pregnant with Finn, the anatomy scan showed that he had a cyanotic heart defect called transposition of the great arteries.

‘We were extremely lucky to have found this out prior to his birth, or he would not be here with us today.

‘Finn underwent multiple procedures immediately after his birth in order to keep him alive until he could have his open heart surgery.

‘Finn had his arterial switch at 11 days old and did great and after seven weeks, a few unexpected complications, and an additional surgery, Finn was finally discharged home.

‘Once we got home it was as if Brutus just knew Finn needed some extra close monitoring, and he has been by his side ever since.’

Finn and Brutus the boxer snoozing together. Paige said she thinks the dog decided her son needed extra protection  when he came from hospital after lifesaving emergency surgery

Paige had been taking pictures of the pair of them curled up in the new dog bed ever since they received it. Then she and her husband Nate, a 38-year-old car shop worker, were intrigued as to what was happening before and after.

Paige said: ‘I actually watched the footage in real time from my phone in the next room, there was no watching the footage back or rewinding it. I was right on the other side of the door listening the whole time.

‘I synced the camera with my phone so I could control when it recorded and when it just monitored.

‘Just before I recorded from my phone, I put Finn back on the bed again because I saw him on camera climbing on the edge of the chair and I didn’t want him to fall.

‘I went back to my phone and pressed ‘record’ because I saw him undressing and I didn’t want to miss if he got out of bed again to go sleep with Brutus, which is exactly what he did. did.

‘I’m not worried Brutus will be upset because he’s been so tolerant and well behaved in other situations, so Finn rolling around and climbing around him is something I know he won’t be fazed by.

‘Brutus insisted on being in Finn’s room and he’s not the type of dog to do something he doesn’t want to do, no one forced him into that situation.

‘He has never shown any signs of aggression towards humans, otherwise he would not be trusted around Finn or any of our other children.’

The adorable video was filmed on July 3.