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.
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.
This happened to me pretty much the same and it didn’t even make local news.
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