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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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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: trebb

"Maybe I'm reading this wrong - the guy's 2 year-old is missing, people are searching, and he's at work???"

Poorly written but I think he was at work when she went missing, not when she was found.


61 posted on 06/30/2004 10:37:21 AM PDT by monday
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To: sweetliberty

"You forgot "hugh"....oh, and "hugh manatee.""

Don't you mean "Oh the hugh manatee!"


62 posted on 06/30/2004 10:38:18 AM PDT by looscnnn ("Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils" Gen. John Stark 1809)
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To: looscnnn

LOL! Now that you mention it.....


63 posted on 06/30/2004 10:39:58 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("Good-night sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Reward the dog by feeding him a cat.


64 posted on 06/30/2004 10:51:00 AM PDT by lormand (Save the Whales? Call a Democrat! Save the World? Call the Republicans)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All

OHH HOW sweet

So toddler being guard by Family dog that should be on episode of Miracle Pets on PAX network


65 posted on 06/30/2004 10:52:48 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: MCRD

Well, my og comes from a Logitech Wireless Keyboard that doesn't always give me what I want, I missed that screwup before posting, but have now downloaded some more software , installed it, rebooted several times and we are ready to try Again!!!!

<Damn still have the problem...<D<D<D<D<D

two characters with one key touch, that is just wonderful&&&***&**


66 posted on 06/30/2004 11:00:08 AM 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: joesnuffy
My German Shepherd found a two yr old..(neighbors kid) that had wandered out her back door and off into a vacant wooded lot..(her mom was distracted by the phone)...and brought her back home...

Whereupon the dog said, "Honest, Joe, she just followed me home. Can I keep her?"

67 posted on 06/30/2004 11:03:08 AM PDT by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: Constitution Day

ROFL!!

Its my wireless keyboard inserting and dropping characters.

, it's treating the shift key as a control key........Arghhhh...


68 posted on 06/30/2004 11:05:16 AM 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 ending.

My lab saved me from an armed robbery about ten years ago.

MM


69 posted on 06/30/2004 11:06:03 AM PDT by MississippiMan
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To: BSunday
PS I decided not to jump on the og bandwagon.

It's all in fun.....damn keyboard....

70 posted on 06/30/2004 11:06:59 AM 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
Its my wireless keyboard inserting and dropping characters.

It h ppens to the b st of us, E nest!

71 posted on 06/30/2004 11:07:42 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Member, Burger-Eating War Monkeys, Rapid Response Digital Brown Shirts, NLC™)
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To: mrs tiggywinkle; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; NormsRevenge; blam
Dogs have masters - Cats have staff.

ROFL,,,hadn't heard that before!!!!!

72 posted on 06/30/2004 11:08:59 AM 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: Rebelbase

Now I would have at least half of that dog food!


73 posted on 06/30/2004 11:10:31 AM 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: looscnnn
Don't you mean "Oh the hugh manatee!"

on the phone with my doctor's office and LOL!

74 posted on 06/30/2004 11:12:03 AM PDT by pettifogger
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To: antivenom

Oh No.....

It's this new wireless keyboard's fault! i swear it's true......It is really true.....


75 posted on 06/30/2004 11:13:31 AM 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: f zero

Read the lab story AND the shepherd story further down the thread!


76 posted on 06/30/2004 11:15:18 AM PDT by pettifogger
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To: looscnnn
Pure coincidence. Had there been a way for the cats to get out by themselves, they would have bolted and the people would have died.

Oh really?

http://www.animalsentience.com/news/2003-10-16.htm

Cat saves lamb from drowning

A lamb who escaped from his pasture in England was saved from drowning in a swimming pool by an alert cat.

Puss Puss, a black and white cat, discovered the lamb's predicament and frantically meowed, running back and forth between the pool and the garden where her owners were working, to alert them to his plight.

Puss Puss's owners, gardeners Adrian Bunton and Karen Lewis, had taken her along with them to work at the garden of Cotswold District Council chairman Tim Royle in Cheltenham , UK . Jill Royle said, "She was in a Cat saves lamb from drowning very, very agitated state, meowing and calling and crying and being an utter pest and dashing back and forward between them and the pool."

When Bunton and Lewis found the lamb he was under the swimming pool cover and his head was entangled in the pool cover straps, which actually were keeping him from drowning. Bunton jumped into the pool to rescue the lamb while Lewis went to get help.

Puss Puss is "a real little superstar," said Lewis. The actions of the quick-thinking feline are all the more remarkable because she is disabled. "As a kitten she had an accident and had to have her tail amputated, " Lewis explained. "She hasn't grown properly, has arthritis and can't curl up, jump or climb like other normal cats."

77 posted on 06/30/2004 11:16:55 AM PDT by paltz
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I love a good og story, too.


78 posted on 06/30/2004 11:23:02 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

No, but you might see one about an at.


79 posted on 06/30/2004 11:23:44 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: paltz

The cat probably was pissed that its "meal" or scratching post was in the water, where it would not go. Still, overall dogs are most likely to save someone than a puss puss.


80 posted on 06/30/2004 11:40:57 AM PDT by looscnnn ("Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils" Gen. John Stark 1809)
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