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 on Thursday, Sept. 21. “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 7:30 p.m. Wednesday after the girl wandered away.
“She had been directed to go back into the house,” Sgt. Douglas Cole told The Epoch Times. “She walked off the porch without anybody seeing her and then 15 minutes after that, they realized she was missing.”
Around midnight, a citizen on an ATV found the girl, confirmed by police as Thea, about 3 miles from her home, state police said.
Lt. Giannunzio said she 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 southwest of Marquette.
