Posted on 06/30/2004 9:58:52 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Missing Toddler Found Guarded By Family Dog
POSTED: 11:25 am EDT June 30,
2004
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.
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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"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.
"You forgot "hugh"....oh, and "hugh manatee.""
Don't you mean "Oh the hugh manatee!"
LOL! Now that you mention it.....
Reward the dog by feeding him a cat.
OHH HOW sweet
So toddler being guard by Family dog that should be on episode of Miracle Pets on PAX network
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&&&***&**
Whereupon the dog said, "Honest, Joe, she just followed me home. Can I keep her?"
ROFL!!
Its my wireless keyboard inserting and dropping characters.
, it's treating the shift key as a control key........Arghhhh...
Wonderful ending.
My lab saved me from an armed robbery about ten years ago.
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It's all in fun.....damn keyboard....
It h ppens to the b st of us, E nest!
ROFL,,,hadn't heard that before!!!!!
Now I would have at least half of that dog food!
on the phone with my doctor's office and LOL!
Oh No.....
It's this new wireless keyboard's fault! i swear it's true......It is really true.....
Read the lab story AND the shepherd story further down the thread!
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."
I love a good og story, too.
No, but you might see one about an at.
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.
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