Dog Alerts Mom To Struggling Baby, Makes Unbelievable Rescue

When Henry the Boston terrier kept disobeying his owner’s commands, Kelly Dowling thought it was just a streak of naughtiness, but she soon discovered he was trying to tell her something.

Kelly and Jeff Dowling of Glastonbury, Connecticut, have two daughters. Their youngest, 9 months old, had been sick and was on antibiotics after a trip to urgent care on Dec. 12. She was scheduled to get some chest X-rays later that week, according to the Hartford Courant, but until then, she was being cared for at home.

Henry had been known to push open the nursery door — it had a malfunctioning latch, making it easy for the dog to push the door open.

But on Monday night, he kept head-butting the door open, sniffing the baby, walking back to the doorway and staring at her.

“I kept shooing him out, kind of angrily,” Kelly told the Hartford Courant. “I had just gotten her to sleep, and she wasn’t feeling well.”

Most of the time, once scolded, Henry would sulk under the bed, but on Monday night he was insistent until he woke the baby up.

“He finally, successfully, woke her, and she started to cry, but her cry was very strange,” Kelly said. “I went in … I was furious with the 🐕Dog, but then noticed she was very rigid and struggling to breathe. We tried suctioning her, but she started to turn a little blue.”