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Missing Toddler Found Guarded By Family Dog ( I love a good og story )
News4ax.com ^ | 11:25 am EDT June 30, 2004 | AP

Posted on 06/30/2004 9:58:52 AM PDT by 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."


Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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


101 posted on 06/30/2004 12:33:34 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: RandallFlagg

sure it wasn't a oose?


102 posted on 06/30/2004 12:37:51 PM PDT by antivenom ("Never argue with an idiot, he'll bring you down to his level - then beat you with experience.")
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To: mrs tiggywinkle
Dogs have masters - Cats have staff.

LOL!!

103 posted on 06/30/2004 12:44:26 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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.

104 posted on 06/30/2004 12:54:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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.


105 posted on 06/30/2004 12:57:39 PM PDT by Arguss (Take the narrow road)
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To: Constitution Day; Ernest_at_the_Beach

http://www.flippyscatpage.com/cavemendays.html
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062165


106 posted on 06/30/2004 1:03:33 PM PDT by unspun (Love ya, W - try vetoing sometime. | I'm not "Unspun w/ AnnaZ" but I appreciate.)
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To: Constitution Day

keywords bump


107 posted on 06/30/2004 1:04:49 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Back at ya.

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

-Hakespeare

108 posted on 06/30/2004 1:10:35 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Member, Burger-Eating War Monkeys, Rapid Response Digital Brown Shirts, NLC™)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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


109 posted on 06/30/2004 1:13:03 PM PDT by tiki
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To: TomGuy

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


110 posted on 06/30/2004 2:32:49 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED ( Public Serivce announcement for Kerry supporters::GO CHENEY YOURSELF)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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


111 posted on 06/30/2004 2:34:31 PM PDT by hershey
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To: paltz

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....


112 posted on 06/30/2004 2:36:47 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED ( Public Serivce announcement for Kerry supporters::GO CHENEY YOURSELF)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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.


113 posted on 06/30/2004 2:37:37 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
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To: Constitution Day

ROFL!!


114 posted on 06/30/2004 2:39:30 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Labs rule.


115 posted on 06/30/2004 2:39:42 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: Dog Gone

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


116 posted on 06/30/2004 2:40:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

wonderful story!


117 posted on 06/30/2004 2:44:55 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

Love the Labs and the Golden Retrievers.


118 posted on 06/30/2004 3:10:20 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Okay, I'll buy the keyboard story this time, and sell you a "D".

Og Gone

119 posted on 06/30/2004 3:20:46 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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


120 posted on 06/30/2004 3:36:32 PM PDT by Ditter
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