‘Grandma loves you’: Dog in US leads police to owner’s missing mother
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Police officer Devon Miller spotted the brown dog at the side of the road.
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A dog in the United States led a police officer to its owner’s missing mother, after she fell while out on a walk and could not return home.
“Sometimes heroes come with four legs and a wagging tail,” the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida said on Oct 7, after the 86-year-old woman “took a tumble and injured herself” while walking her son’s dog, Eeyore, in Destin, a city in north-west Florida.
Local media reported that the incident took place on the night of Sept 25.
The sheriff’s office said the woman’s “distraught husband” had called police for help as he was “concerned about his missing wife.”
“She never takes more than 10 or 15 minutes. It’s almost an hour now!” the unnamed husband told police officer Devon Miller at his house, in a body camera footage shared by the sheriff’s office on Facebook.
After getting a description of the dog, Ms Miller got into her vehicle and moments later, spotted the brown dog at the side of the road.
“Hi baby, where’s your mama?” she says in body camera footage, as she pulls over and gets out of her car to pat the canine.
Eeyore immediately leads Ms Miller to the woman, who is lying on a sidewalk.
Ms Miller reports to her superiors that the elderly woman is “alert and conscious”.
In the video, she recounts to the elderly lady how Eeyore had sought Ms Miller out.
“I was in front of that house right there, and then the dog ran up to me,” Ms Miller says.
“And the dog brought you?” the older woman asks, before adding: “He wouldn’t leave, he kept coming back to me.”
Ms Miller replies: He ran up to my car and I said ‘bring me to your mummy’ and he ran back here.”
The elderly woman, who sounds surprised, then exclaims: “Good boy... very good boy. I’m not even his owner, I am his grandmother. Oh Eeyore, you’re such a good boy, grandma loves you.”
The sheriff’s office spokeswoman Michele Nicholson told USA Today the woman was taken to a medical facility for treatment.
The severity of her injuries was not known.
