Missing Toddler Found Guarded By Family Dog ( I love a good og story )

News4ax.com ^ | 11:25 am EDT June 30, 2004 | AP

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Missing Toddler Found Guarded By Family Dog

Girl, Dog Disappeared From Family's Back Yard

POSTED: 11:25 am EDT June 30,

2004
BETHLEHEM, Ind. -- Some 90 people searched through the night for a missing 2-year old girl before she was found safe Wednesday morning with a family dog on an Ohio River bank.

Daisy Smith was found more than a mile from her home by a Clark County conservation officer taking part in a search that began after she and the dog disappeared from the family's back yard about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Conservation Officer Andy Crozier found the girl about 6:30 a.m. after following dog tracks that led him to the family's Labrador retriever at the site about 25 miles northeast of Louisville, Ky.

"I found the tracks and just followed them," Crozier told The Evening News of Jeffersonville. "When I first found the girl she appeared fine, but obviously scared. The dog was a little hesitant to let me get near her, after I made up to him a little bit he let me bring her to safety."

Emergency management workers examined the girl at the home of her parents -- Les and Cheryl Smith.

"You couldn't believe how happy I was when I heard," Les Smith said. "My wife called me at work last night and told me what had happened, and ever since then you can't even describe what's going through your mind. When they told me that they found her, it was unbelievable."

Conservation Officer Mac Spainhour said the family dog was to thank for the girl's safety.

"This girl has a guardian angel," Spainhour said. "And it's the dog. He stayed with her throughout the night, and in the end he led us to her."

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[ValerieUSA]

So the dog went for a run and the little girl followed it?

[antivenom]

sure it wasn't a oose?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Dogs have masters - Cats have staff.

LOL!!

[LibWhacker]

The dog was a little hesitant to let me get near her . . .

Glad the forrest ranger found the little irl and the og, and not the ops.

[Arguss]

I live on the banks of a deep river. Whenever my grandchildren would visit our Dobie would follow them around, and if they got close to the bank the dog would get between them and the river and lean on them.

If there was only one child present the dog had no problem. But with three or four children the dog never got a moments rest. She would ride herd on all of them.

The irony was that one winter she fell through the ice, probably chasing a rabbit, and drowned.

[unspun]

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http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062165

[Diddle E. Squat]

keywords bump

[Constitution Day]

Back at ya.

"Cry 'Avoc', and let slip the Ogs of War!"

-Hakespeare

[tiki]

Ahhh, so sweet! I bet that dog gets a steak tonight.

[TASMANIANRED]

The dog deserves steak for dinner the rest of the year.

[hershey]

Awesome. That dog deserves the biggest filet mignon they can buy.

[TASMANIANRED]

Cat saves lamb from drowning



Once in a while, while God is taking a nap, some practical joker slips a dog's soul in a cats body....

[Ciexyz]

My parents told a story about how I as a toddler was found wandering down the road -- with the family German Shepherd on one side of me, a collie on the other side, both obviously guarding me.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!!

[Vigilantcitizen]

Labs rule.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You might enjoy this typo.....there was a good reason.....

[Salvation]

wonderful story!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Love the Labs and the Golden Retrievers.

[Dog Gone]

Okay, I'll buy the keyboard story this time, and sell you a "D".

Og Gone

[Ditter]

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
---Will Rodgers