On April 15, a two-year-old Arizona toddler was led to safety by a rancher's dog after the boy spent a night alone in the remote wilderness. Now, the rancher is opening up about his hero dog's good deed. According to the agency's press release, just before 5 p.m. on Monday, April 14, Yavapai County Sheriff's deputies received a report of a missing boy who "wandered" from his home in Seligman. The response, involving over 40 search and rescue members, ended after 16 hours when Bodin Allen appeared on Dunton's property. The child traveled approximately 7 miles from his home. During the search, a rescue helicopter spotted two mountain lions in the area where the boy had travelled.
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00:00I was getting ready to leave. I'd heard about the missing child before I was going to town and when
00:05I was driving out the driveway I noticed my dog was sitting down by the entrance and I look up
00:10and the little kid standing there with my dog. Well knowing that he was the missing child it was
00:15yeah it was a relief that he was alive so I was you know ecstatic that he was okay and that my
00:21dog found him. The little boy when I finally got him calmed down and got him in the house and
00:38gave him some water and food and stuff and he calmed down and I asked him I said did you walk
00:42all night and he said no. He said I laid up under a tree and I said well did my dog find you and he
00:47goes yep and I'm guessing he found him over here in the horse pasture somewhere under a tree and
00:53then just brought him home so it's what he does. He loves kids so I can imagine he wouldn't leave him
00:59when he found him.