Another dog story..

Dick2

Well-known Member
A 3-year-old boy wandered away from home in Griggs County, ND, sometime about 7 p.m. The family searced for an hour and then called the Sheriff's office for help. People came from all around and organized into walking searchers and those with ATV's.

They searched through the night without finding the boy and officials suspended the search at 2 a.m. when it started to rain. One guy on an ATV didn't get the word and kept searching. A mile from the farmstead he went over a hill and there on the other side was the family dog guarding the missing boy. The dog had been laying on the boy to keep him warm. After a check at the hospital, the boy was released to go back home.

Bet that dog gets extra treats for a long time.
 
Good story Dick!

We have what I had always considered a generally worthless dog until she got between me and a mad cow that had me cornered in the barn. It gave me just a second or two to make an escape. I hold her in pretty high regard now.
 
Re-read the newspaper story; the article said that the foot walkers were called off the search at 2 a.m. Article didn't say so, but evidently the ATV riders kept on with the search. The one that found the boy took off on his own away from the others and his persistence paid off by searching a field that no one else had searched.
 
BTW, that county has a lot of sloughs. They have had incidents of people wandering off and they were found later in a slough. Apparently they were wandering in the dark and walked right into a slough.
 
My folks used to tell stories about our old Collie/Shepherd cross that would babysit me. They'd be busy working and I'd wander a little too far from them for his liking. He'd take my arm in his teeth, very gently I'm told, and steer me back towards the folks. They had had a picture of it now that I think on it.

Old Sam was a good dog.
 

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