My dog suddenly began furiously scratching the wall behind my eight-month-old daughter’s crib: at first we thought it had simply gone crazy, but when we looked inside the wall, we found something truly horrible there. 😯😲
My daughter was only eight months old when what first seemed like an ordinary cold began. She coughed almost without stopping, especially at night. The cough was strange—dry and rattling, as if something inside her tiny chest was shaking. Sometimes she started breathing so shallowly that I would wake up in the middle of the night and listen for a long time, checking whether her chest was rising.
We went to the pediatrician several times. The doctor listened carefully to her lungs, asked questions, and in the end said it seemed like infant asthma. We were prescribed an inhaler and medication.
I strictly followed all the instructions, but weeks passed and she didn’t get any better. Sometimes it seemed that she was even worse. She became lethargic, ate poorly, and often woke up in the middle of the night, breathing heavily.
At the same time, our golden retriever Daisy began behaving very strangely. She was usually a calm and affectionate dog who could lie next to the crib for hours and quietly watch the baby. But suddenly she started causing real chaos in the nursery.
As soon as I left the room, a scratching sound came from the hallway. I would run back and see the same scene: Daisy standing by the wall right behind the crib, furiously clawing at the drywall. She tore the wallpaper, left long grooves on the wall, and dug as if trying to reach something inside the wall.
At first, I thought she was just bored or jealous of the baby. I scolded her, pulled her away, closed the door. One day I even put up baby gates so she couldn’t enter the room at all.
But somehow Daisy managed to knock them down and get back inside. Every time she returned to the same spot behind the crib and continued scratching the wall with a desperate stubbornness.
A few days later, I noticed small bloody cracks on her paws. She was literally wearing down her paw pads on that drywall. I was angry and exhausted from sleepless nights, because the baby was barely sleeping due to her cough. Sometimes it felt like the dog had simply gone crazy.
Last night my patience finally snapped. I went into the nursery and saw that Daisy had made a huge hole in the wall. The drywall was broken, chunks of plaster lay on the carpet, and she kept scratching the edge of the hole as if trying to make it bigger.
I grabbed her by the collar and pulled her aside, scolding loudly. My heart was racing with anger, because all I could think about was how much the repair would cost. But when I bent down and peered into the dark hole the dog had clawed, I was horrified at what was hidden inside 😨😲. Now I want to share my story with all parents so you can be more careful too 😢
I told the continuation of the story in the first comment 👇👇
The wall smelled heavy and musty. The smell was so unpleasant that I flinched involuntarily.
I turned on the flashlight on my phone and shone it inside the wall. The beam of light glided over wooden beams and insulation, and at that moment a chill ran down my spine.
The entire space behind my daughter’s crib was covered in thick black patches. It wasn’t just dirt or ordinary dampness. On the wood and insulation, a thick, fluffy layer of black mold had grown. I immediately knew that something was very wrong.
A few minutes later, as I examined the wall more closely, I noticed a thin wet trail on a pipe coming from the neighboring bathroom. It turned out that the pipe had been leaking slowly for a very long time. Moisture had been accumulating inside the wall for years, and toxic black mold had grown there.
This was exactly the wall right behind my baby’s crib.
At that moment, my hands literally shook. I suddenly realized that my daughter might not have asthma at all. She had been breathing air filled with toxic mold spores for weeks.
And Daisy had sensed the smell all along, which we couldn’t detect. She scratched the wall, destroyed the house, and hurt her paws just to reach the source of that smell.
