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A police officer and self-described “dog guy,” hooked his own instincts up to those of a local dog to find a missing 3-year-old in Kentucky.

There was a drone and helicopter in the air and a half-dozen officers from the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department scouring the immediate location of a missing persons call on January 7th.

Reasoning that a boy that young can’t run very fast, Officer Josh Thompson and another officer who rides a beat in that area, named Story, began to canvas the street near the boy’s house.

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“As I’m walking to the front [door] the craziest thing happens: there’s a dog, and he starts walking with me,” said Thompson. “And at first you don’t know about dogs, you don’t know where the dog’s from, he’s barkin,’ jerkin’ at me a little bit.”

“So I begin to knock on the house again and then I make a gesture on body cam, kinda’ funny—I guess I’m a dog guy right?—but I just said, ‘let’s go find this kid.'”

The dog immediately spun around and started trotting back in the direction Officer Thompson came from, barking periodically. He described it all in a video posted on social media by the department, and at one point said unflappably that the dog was telling him to “hurry up,” maybe showing just how much Thompson’s heart and mind had merged in the moment.

Sure enough they returned to the back of the house, and the Thompson knew that the child was there somewhere. The dog ran over to a parked car and sat down next to the back wheel, and Officer Story called out that he’d found the child in the seat of the car.

He was locked inside with the child locks on, and they had to coach him on how to open the door. When he finally did, “he jumped out of the car, bear hugged my neck and wouldn’t let go.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a happier kid in my life.” Thompson said. “I don’t know where the dog came from, but it was a blessing from God that day.”

Indeed, neither the department nor CBS, reporting on the event, figured out whose dog it was.

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