Dogs help lost toddler get through the night
A 3-year-old lost in the Virginia woods was back home Sunday thanks to two puppies who kept him warm through a night of freezing temperatures.
Jaylynn Thorpe wandered away from his baby-sitter at 4 p.m. Friday and was missing for 21 hours as hundreds of friends, family and law enforcement officials searched for him in the thick woods of Halifax County, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Officials said the lost little boy and the two family puppies wandered up to a mile in the dark, even across a highway, but it wasn’t until Saturday afternoon that members of the search team found him sitting by a tree, the two puppies nestled against him.
When I first saw him, he was like, ‘Momma, I got cold. I slept in the woods last night. The puppies kept me warm.’ He told me that … the dogs slept up against him. And I’m sure the body heat kept him warm,” said his mother, Sarah Ingram.
The boy’s father, James Thorpe, said temperatures that dropped into the teens Friday night added to their worries.
Upon his rescue, the boy didn’t say anything, according to searcher Jerry Gentry; he “just opened his arms up like, ‘I’m ready to go.’”
Close to 300 people from North Carolina and Virginia joined in the search to find Jaylynn.
Posted by jwoestendiek December 10th, 2008 under Muttsblog.
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