[Does so]

"I used ALL my experience with dogs" said the Morgan Hill girl.

LOL!

[Salamander]

If she truly is hearing them, that may be more than someone 10 times her age could ever understand.

[Does so]

Now that I think about it, the same day a "Foundling" dog, who'd just been adopted by a neighbor went missing towards dusk. I'd been sipping wine prior to hopping on my bicycle to assist in the search.

Giving up—as it got too dark to continue—I tripped myself up, and fell down with the bicycle on top of me. A little slow in getting up, the "lost" dog came out from bushes to give me a nuzzle. :-)

[jmacusa]

A lost, injured or frightened dog is going to be instinctively wary of larger, more perceived powerful humans who it will regard as a threat. Dogs know that a small child is weak, not very powerful and for the most part does not pose a threat. Size matters. To dogs anyway. Good on the little girl.