FAITHORN, Mich. – A 2-year-old girl who walked away from her home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula alongside two family dogs was found in the woods hours later sleeping on the smaller dog like a furry pillow, state police said.
“She laid down and used one of the dogs as a pillow, and the other dog laid right next to her and kept her safe,” Lt. Mark Giannunzio said Thursday. “It’s a really remarkable story.”
Troopers used drones and police dogs in the search while local police and citizens from both Michigan and adjacent Wisconsin helped look for the girl in the remote wooded area.
Troopers from Michigan State Police’s Iron Mountain post had been called to a home in the Faithorn area of Menominee County about 8 p.m. Wednesday after the girl wandered away.
Around midnight, a citizen on an ATV found the girl about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from her home, state police said.
Giannunzio said the girl was checked by medical staff and appeared to be in good health.
Faithorn is an unincorporated village located just east of the Wisconsin state line and about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Marquette, Michigan.
Dang 3 miles away is crazy, good thing those dogs stayed with her.
For a 2 year old too
Another example of Dogs > Cats
Cats would have just said FU and left
Cats would have waited nearby, trying to decide whether to eat the lips or the eyeballs first.
https://www.petcarerx.com/article/hero-cat-saves-abandoned-baby-boy-from-freezing-to-death/4459
I swear I remember a better example that’s a perfect mirror for OP, but this is te best I found in 30 seconds.
cats would have most likely been indoor pets, and if the child were just following their pets around, the worst that would happen is they got stuck behind the sofa.
Damn that’s a brave thing to say on the internet lol. I’m also really surprised this actually got upvoted so much.
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No u
I mean, the dogs knew where she was…
Our family has a story about an uncle of mine that spent a winter night (in Northern Alberta) in the bush nearby the farmhouse when he was 3. The dog was credited with keeping him alive. He lived another 91 years and always treated dogs very well.
That’s crazy, 91 is very old for a dog.
Nice.
Good dog!
someone pet those fkn dogs! good doggos
…and they all lived happily ever after.
Are you asleep, honey?
Cute and sweet and all, and I’m glad she’s okay. Really. But I’m not sure that “we couldn’t find our child for a few hours” is news-worthy.
There’s so much bad news out there, I’m happy for a little good news every once in a while
At least not without pictures of the dog.
It’s a very big deal for a small town.
It’s local news, and it involved a search and usage of police resources. The news is for reporting on things that happened. Not everything is global scale news.
The atrophy of local news is a big part of why things like school boards and city councils have been overrun with absolute nutjobs.
What’s newsworthy is that the cops didn’t shoot the dogs on sight
This happened to me pretty much the same and it didn’t even make local news.
It’s just a cute story bro
Then downvote and move on. Stop trying to gatekeep.
How is this gatekeeping. Man lemmy nolifers are worse than reddit ngl
