A woman woke up in the middle of a stormy night to find a stranger's dog in bed with her.
Julie Thornton Johnson said that the dog, which had run away from home, climbed into her bed after her husband Jimmy accidentally left their door ajar. The dog, named Nala, walked about two miles in the middle of the night before arriving at Mrs Johnson's home in Tennessee, United States.
She told The Mirror : "She had gotten loose from her parents on Saturday afternoon and ran off. It started storming around 4am and I assume she was really scared of thunder and ran to the first house that smelled like friendly people and dogs."
As her own three dogs regularly climb into bed with her, she didn't think anything of it until she was fully awake. She said: "At first, I was a little scared. Who wouldn’t be? A big scary-looking brown dog, but within 10 seconds we knew she was friendly. My husband tried to pull the blankets up and she snuggled in a lot closer and wouldn’t budge, she just kept wanting love from me and my husband."
Her own dogs apparently showed no reaction to the intrusion. The couple wrote a Facebook post about their unexpected visitor and the owners came forward to collect her.
The dog's owners said on Facebook: "The woman and her husband have three dogs of their own that all sleep in bed with them. None of their dogs reacted to a random dog climbing into bed with them and the couple didn't even realise that it wasn't their dog in bed with them until the sun started to come up. Thankfully, the couple thought it was hilarious."
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