A toddler lost in the woods is found asleep using family dog as a pillow
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.
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.
someone pet those fkn dogs! good doggos
...and they all lived happily ever after.
Are you asleep, honey?
I'm glad she's safe but how do parents lose sight of a toddler long enough for her to wander so far away? It seems like this happens quite frequently and I'm just baffled.
I don't have kids, and perhaps you don't either?
I'm old enough with enough friend with kids, and recall being a 2yo myself, and I can say its INCREDIBLY easy to lose track of a 2yo. It only takes seconds to lose sight of them. How far they get after losing site isn't an indicator of how long you weren't paying attention, but how long you've been looking before finding them.
I can lose sight of a tortoise by being distracted for 5 minutes. This is a legendarily slow creature (in reality they are like a reverse version of the stone angels from doctor who)
Hahaha love it
And they can be smart and dexterous enough to open locks by that age. They're really a bit of a nightmare.
I put a screwdriver down beside me and have to take 2 minutes to find it. I couldn't imagine if the screwdriver had legs.
There's losing sight, and then there's trying to find it. I remember a short video where a toddler was wandering straight for a road, and someone happened to prevent a tragedy, and mom came running out of the house as the camera was still rolling.
People were calling negligence, what a terrible mom, yadda yadda. No, that mom was running around the house looking for her kid, frantic as time passed. You just don't think they can open the door that early. Manipulating a door latch or knob is a developmental milestone, plus, what if the door didn't properly latch? Mom could just as easily looked outside first, but that would be counterintuitive.
Also, "I thought you had him/her?" Is a real thing.
I have a 2 year old boy, and he could easily walk 3 miles if he wanted to. He can and does sneak away sometimes , and fast. And he can open doors and locks, and he has no fear or sense of danger.
Have you ever been around a toddler? Those kids can be sneaky and fast.
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.
What's newsworthy is that the cops didn't shoot the dogs on sight
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.
Then downvote and move on. Stop trying to gatekeep.
How is this gatekeeping. Man lemmy nolifers are worse than reddit ngl
It's just a cute story bro
This happened to me pretty much the same and it didn’t even make local news.