Update to this story.
PIERRE PART, La. – A Lousiana boy who made headlines for being caught on camera cuddling a neighbor’s dog recently welcomed his own furry friend to the family.
Josh Breaux and his family recently acquired Drake, a two-and-a-half-month-old dog that came from a nearby family whose son left for college, WTVD reported.
Hollie Breaux Mallet was reviewing surveillance footage from a camera she had set up in her garage when she saw a boy run up and hug her dog, Duchess. He ran away after the encounter. Mallet said she saw the boy repeat the act multiple times earlier this summer.
“Every now and then when he rides his bike he will quickly come and love on my dog or play fetch real quick, but always leaves quick like he doesn’t know if he should be here,” Mallet wrote on Facebook. “I’d like to tell him he’s welcome to stay and play, she loves the attention.”
A video Mallet posted on Facebook garnered more than 4 million views, and among those that saw the footage was the boy’s mother, Ginger Clement Breaux.