After a frantic four hours of search and rescue, a two-year-old toddler from Michigan was found sleeping in the woods amid sweet dreams, fairy dust, and the two family dogs whom she had “wrapped around her finger.”
Thea Chase, who lives in Faithorn in Michigan, was playing in her yard barefoot when her uncle told her to put on shoes.
Her Mother Brooke told me that she felt the urge to check up on her, as well as their two dogs – a Rottweiler called Buddy and an English Springer, named Hartley.
It soon became terrifyingly clear that Thea was no longer in the yard, after which Brooke and Thea’s uncle began to shout for her. They searched the woods near at hand to the house for about a quarter of an hour before calling the police and Chase’s husband.
“When a police officer receives a similar call, all other activities are halted,” Michigan State Police Lieutenant Mark Giannunzio told CNN .
In the rural area, the police put out a call for drones, canine teams, and search and rescue personnel to comb the county, while members of Brooke’s close-knit community in town formed their own search party.
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Eventually, around midnight, a family friend who was still out looking for Thea on ATV discovered Buddy by the side of a trail. As he got closer, the dog began to bark.
The still-shoeless 2-year-old was located a short way from the trail, sleeping as soundly as a wood nymph, her head atop Hartley’s body. Hartley grewled at the ATV driver when he tried to awaken her.
“She has those dogs wrapped around her finger,” said Brooke, who according to CNN was “in a fog” for the whole four hours it took to rescue the girl on a 60degF night, who had wandered off 3 miles into the woods.
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