It's often said that dogs just know when something bad is happening or about to happen.
And these pet pooches are very much in tune with the harrowing experience their family is going through right now.
Just five months old, little Nora Hall suffered a massive stroke and has been in an induced coma in a Minneapolis hospital since.
Sadly, her mum Mary has been told that her little one won't survive. But Mary is taking comfort from the fact that the tot has the greatest support available - from the family's two beloved basset hounds.
According to little Nora's mum, the two dogs refuse to leave the child's side.
"They allowed us to have our bassets here in the last couple of days because they are so attached to her," Nora wrote on her Facebook post. "I can tell that they are very stressed and sad."
Mary now faces another difficult decision - to send the dogs to her brothers's place, "in case they get more stressed seeing everyone upset, or if I should let them stay in the room for when she passes, so they aren't left wondering where she is when we go home."
Nora's parents asked their Facebook friends on The Wonderful World of Basset Hounds group for advice, and were inundated with messages of support from people who all told her to let the dogs stay put.
"Gosh, thank you everyone, I was not expecting support like this," she wrote. "I was leaning towards sending them away so they didn't get stressed, but after reading so many comments saying to keep them, then I will. The nurses are head over heels with them anyhow."
And Mary knows that the dogs will be of great comfort to herself and her husband too, once their little one passes away.
"We are just so glad that we will get to go home with our bassets to comfort us," she wrote. "They have been our babies for eight years before Nora."
Mary noticed her daughter was acting “fussier than normal” on the day of her stroke when she returned home from work.
She said Nora was not “really using her left arm or leg” before at 8pm she began seizing up.
Rushed to hospital doctors immediately found she a suffered a major stroke. Her brain when without oxygen and has been left swollen as a result.
A gofundme page has since been set up by Mary’s cousin, Heather Radtke and has so far raised more than $15,000. The family hope to raise $20,000 towards Nora’s treatment.
If you'd like to donate, visit: https://www.gofundme.com/fzy4cm3s
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