Family Dog A Hero After Sticking By Lost 3-Year-Old Girl Through Freezing Weather

Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter!


By Samuel Goldsmith For The New York Daily News.

Cops in Arizona are crediting a family dog with saving the life of a lost little girl.

Three-year-old Victoria Bensch wandered away from her family home in Cordes Lakes, Ariz. on Thursday and got lost in the mountains surrounding the valley.

Search parties spent the night looking for the girl as temperatures dipped below 30 degrees.

She was finally spotted 15 hours after she vanished by a helicopter pilot on Friday.

Next to her was Blue, the family’s Queensland heeler.

“The dog kept her alert, warm and gave her companionship throughout a very cold night,” Dwight D’Evelyn, spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, told The Arizona Republic.

Pilot Matthew Uhl and medic Eric Tarr spotted the girl and her dog in a dry creek bed and landed nearby.

“She wasn’t moving when we first came upon her,” Uhl told the newspaper. “She was kind of just looking face-down on the ground.”

The dog was protective of the child when they first approached, but when the girl smiled, the dog relaxed.

“I think once the dog realized we were there to help them out, he was very excited,” Uhl said.

“He ran around while the medic tended to the little girl, and when it was time to go, he jumped right into the helicopter and was ready to go.”

She was taken to Phoenix Children’s Hospital and treated for frostbite, but doctors said she was healthy despite the ordeal.

“We have to give a lot of credit to Blue,” the girl’s aunt told the Republic.

“He pretty much stayed with her all night.”


Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Lizelle Kopinski
14 years ago

that's because Cattle Dogs are AWESOME 🙂

http://www.acdra.org
Save a Cattle Dog!
I've saved two ♥

SUBSCRIBE TO
DOG FILES

Top Posts

More Articles...

Dog Files Fact: Greyhound

Slender legs reaching, stretching, consuming the ground, then, almost quicker than the eye could see, gathering and stretching again, the Greyhound streaked past, lost in the sheer joy of physical

Read More »
dog products, dog food, dog health, dog grooming, dog training
Breed Files
Kenn Bell

5 Tips When Caring for a Pitbull

Pitbulls are famous for their energy and strength and are well-regarded by true-blue Pitbull-lovers for their unique character and disposition as well as an athletic and chiseled body.

Read More »
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x

Why haven't You Signed up For our Newsletter?

Find out why over 8000 Dog lovers have already Joined!

Receive our newsletter, get special deals & stay updated.