Footage shows the middle-aged woman sitting on the floor with her pooch lying between her legs in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam.
She helped him eat dinner while wiping the soup stains around his mouth.
The woman's relative Tran Nguyen Khan said: "He is loved like a child in the family. Even his meals are cooked separately.
"Sometimes he would pretend not to like the food and so my aunt would feed him spoon by spoon."