Around this time, our golden retriever, Daisy, started acting very strange.

She was usually a calm and affectionate dog who would lie by the crib for hours, quietly watching the baby. But suddenly, she started wreaking havoc in the nursery.

As soon as I left the room, a scratching sound would come from the hallway. I’d run back and see the same scene: Daisy standing against the wall right behind the crib, furiously clawing at the drywall with her paws. She was tearing the wallpaper, leaving long furrows in the wall, and digging as if she were trying to get to something inside the wall.

At first, I thought she was just bored or jealous of the baby. I scolded her, pulled her away, and closed the door. One time, I even installed a baby gate so she couldn’t enter the room at all.

But Daisy somehow managed to knock them down and sneak back inside. Each time, she returned to the same spot behind the crib and continued scratching the wall with a kind of desperate stubbornness.

A few days later, I noticed small, bloody cracks had appeared on her paws.

She was literally wearing her paw pads down on the drywall. I was angry and exhausted from sleepless nights, because the child was barely sleeping due to the cough. Sometimes I thought the dog had simply gone crazy.

Last night, my patience finally snapped. I walked into the nursery and saw that Daisy had made a huge hole in the wall. The drywall was broken, pieces of plaster lay on the carpet, and she continued to scratch at the edge of the hole, as if trying to widen it.