--- title: This Little Boy Broke Into His Neighbor's House To Hug a Dog description: In a surveillance video, the dog's owner noticed an unexpected intruder into her garage: a boy trying to spend some time with her black lab. canonical: https://time.com/4362858/little-boy-dog-neighbor-house/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-09T16:47:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:12.402Z og:title: This Little Boy Broke Into His Neighbor's House to Hug Their Dog og:description: In a surveillance video, the owner found an unexpected intruder in her garage og:url: https://time.com/4362858/little-boy-dog-neighbor-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Little Boy Broke Into His Neighbor's House to Hug Their Dog twitter:description: In a surveillance video, the owner found an unexpected intruder in her garage twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Little Boy Broke Into His Neighbor's House to Hug Their Dog > Sponsored content. 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At the same time, her black lab, Dutchess, walks into the frame. The boy and dog share a moment — the lab’s tail wagging merrily — before the boy runs away and hops on his bike in a rush. Mallet posted the surveillance video to Facebook, seeking to figure out just who the benevolent trespasser might be. “Attn Facebook! Anyone know who this sweet little boy is? Every now and the when he rides his bike he will quickly come and love on my dog,” the post reads. “I’d like to tell him he’s welcome to stay and play, she loves the attention!” The video now has [over 2.5 million](https://www.facebook.com/hollie.mallet/videos/vb.100001397083165/1102217299834829/?type=2&theater) views. And the identity of the boy was quickly found out. The culprit turned out to be 9-year-old Josh Breaux, a neighbor whose own family pet passed away last year, his mother [told ABC News.](http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/boy-sneaks-neighbors-garage-hug-dog/story?id=39695488) “He’s the sweetest little boy,” Mallet said when she finally met Breaux. “It’s a win-win. 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