Family Dog Protects Missing Two-Year Old Child Overnight
Fear and terror ripped through Kershaw County Friday night, as a precious two-year old child from Elgin went missing. Alone and left to the elements, there was not much hope for the small child to make it through the night. But according to deputies, a saving grace watched over the baby boy and he was found safely. The saving grace? The family’s dog.
According to Sheriff Jim Matthews, 22-month Tyler Jacobson was behind a house, crying, when neighbors heard the child’s sounds and alerted authorities. Not long after, a tearful reunion and sighs of relief filled the community with joy.
The child’s mother and boyfriend reported Tyler missing at 8 pm, when they said he went to ‘get some juice’ but never came back. Kershaw County deputies immediately dispatched infrared search capable helicopters and bloodhound units, but by 12:30 am had called off the search. Angst and sadness was felt by all, who thought this story may have had a tragic ending.
But little did everyone know, that in the yard of an area woman — Emily Dubose — a miracle was taking place. The temperatures were frigid, a bone-chilling 40 degrees that quickly dropped to 16 degrees. Such weather is cold enough to freeze the life out of the heartiest of people with little exposure: fingers will cramp and the body will chill until frozen at such temperatures, so this child was in really dire need of protection from exposure.
A dog, the dog of Emily Dubose, was that protection. The dog found the child and huddled up with him. According to figured reports, the dog warmed the child with its body, taking it to a clearing wear a blanket of brush and sticks were assembled. It remains unconfirmed if the dog made this bed for the child.
There are also local reports of the dog bearing several scars on its body, as if it may have been in a recent altercation with coyotes that are known to haunt and spook this small town community. The dog saved the child from hypothermia and the beasts of nature, and now, the community is rightfully calling the cavalier canine a hero.
Kershaw County deputies used a bloodhound tracking team and a SLED helicopter with infrared capabilities, but called the search off around 12:30am Saturday. The search resumed around 7:45am, and the boy was found shortly thereafter. “Just thinking that a dog would watch a baby over the night, it’s kind of like a movie instead of real life,” said Emily DuBose, who lives in the house outside which the baby was found.
DuBose had no idea a story of devotion and survival was playing out right outside her door. “When we saw the choppers last night, we just assumed a criminal was loose, so I locked the door,” said Linda Harr, who also lives at the house. “The last thing I was gonna do is go outside.”
“I heard some barking early in the morning, but I didn’t really think about it, I just heard dogs barking,” said DuBose.
But during the night, Jacobson’s dog was keeping watch over his 22-month-old master in temperatures that got down to the 40s. “I just wish I’d have known, I could have warmed him up, called the cops,” said Harr.
Now, words of praise for the dog who likely helped save little Tyler’s life. “Since he belonged to them, he must have followed them the whole way, so that’s very special,” said Harr.
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Author: Adam Nelson
10:41 pm
Dog spelled backwards is God.
Jesus backwards sounds like Sausage. No coincidence.
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11:35 pm
It is a coincidence.
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10:55 pm
“when neighbor’s”
XD
“22-month Tyler Jacobson was behind a house”
I thought his name was Elign?
“taking it to a clearing wear a blanket of brush and sticks were assembled.”
Jesus Christ, you don’t proof-read, do you?
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10:56 pm
Dogs are very good pets and this feel-good story tugs are your heartstrings a bit. The one thing I wondered about was the mom, who was letting her two-year old wander through the house aimlessly and out of sight for more than a few seconds. The real father is military, in Hawaii apparently, and is supposed to be returning home this week.
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11:00 pm
Adam, no one’s spoken to you on this story as of yet. Why are you commenting on your own article? You’ve already proven that you’ve the grammatical abilities of a second grader.
“The one thing I wondered about was the mom, who was letting her two-year old wander through the house aimlessly and out of sight for more than a few seconds. The real father is military, in Hawaii apparently, and is supposed to be returning home this week.”
And the mother has a boyfriend, as mentioned in the article. It’s quite likely that the child’s biological father is a real jerk, or the mother wouldn’t have divorced him.
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11:02 pm
“The one thing I wondered about was the mom, who was letting her two-year old wander through the house aimlessly and out of sight for more than a few seconds.”
Aimlessly? He was getting some freaking juice. Shouldn’t you be more concerned about her obviously having divorced the father of her child and getting a boyfriend?
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11:11 pm
I don’t see the grammatical errors you’re blabbing about, egg-denier. As for the article, Claire, I’m more concerned about the child wandering off. Really, did they just leave the doors wide open and let the kid run outside. The fleeing footspeed of a teetering two-year old terror is not very fast. You do not trust a ‘terrible two’ alone for more than two seconds, common logic dictates that fact. I hope the dad comes home and puts a military whooping onto this entire situation because it would have turned out tragic if not for that dog.
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11:17 pm
“I don’t see the grammatical errors you’re blabbing about, egg-denier.”
I anticipated that you’d correct them after I mentioned them, so I took screenshots:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=fxs7jr&s=7
Since I can only post one link at a time I will post the second one in another post.
“I hope the dad comes home and puts a military whooping onto this entire situation”
Let me guess, you’re advocating him beating the child’s mother?
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11:19 pm
And the second:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=nn1x5s&s=7
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11:25 pm
You must really have no life. And if I have been reading correctly, you have made a large amounts of errors lately yourself.
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11:26 pm
This is definitely photo-shopped. You opened up Adobe products and did a photo-shop on this image. Typical left-winger. You try to bring petty grammar issues into my feel-good story about a dog saving a child from bad weather, coyotes and a mother who managed to lose him in the cold, dark hours of unknown horrors. I am just happy that the father is coming home and that this child was found safe.
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11:33 pm
Not only do I not have photoshop, but I don’t even know how to use it. I tried it out on a school computer in sixth grade but not since. I also have no memory on my computer to fit any similar sort of software.
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11:34 pm
This is why she is in trade school.
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11:37 pm
So, you can use Photoshop competently, can you? Using Photoshop, or any other sort of image-editing software, is irrelevant to Claire’s desired career.
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12:15 am
If you’re claiming that the image is photoshop’ed, then who’s to say that every image you’ve ever posted or been for was shopped? Hell, let’s go further, who’s to say that stories just weren’t made up on the spot to garner views or hits?
The fact is, you’ve been proven wrong yet again, and rather than man the fuck up, you resort to your whiny attitude and throw a hissy-fit like a child.
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11:14 pm
Also, who said the mom didn’t cause the divorce. The betrayer in most relationships is the woman, who can’t stop flirting with past boyfriends and enters adultery. I didn’t hear any mention of the father having a girlfriend in the report. Instead, he’s out protecting our freedom while the mom here is having a great ol’ time with her new boyfriend, while this poor child is out wandering the streets and on the mends.
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11:21 pm
“The fleeing footspeed of a teetering two-year old terror is not very fast.”
I worked in a daycare last year for my work-study job. I was assigned to work in the room with the infants (whose ages ranged from 15 months to 3 years old). Believe me, two-year-olds can move VERY quickly when they wish to.
“I hope the dad comes home and puts a military whooping onto this entire situation because it would have turned out tragic if not for that dog.”
So, you hope that the father comes home and beats the mother? That’s sick.
“Also, who said the mom didn’t cause the divorce. The betrayer in most relationships is the woman, who can’t stop flirting with past boyfriends and enters adultery. I didn’t hear any mention of the father having a girlfriend in the report. Instead, he’s out protecting our freedom while the mom here is having a great ol’ time with her new boyfriend, while this poor child is out wandering the streets and on the mends.”
Tell that to my stepmother. Her first husband had an affair, in their house, while they were still married, due to the incredible stress that their son (who had massive medical issues) was inadvertently inflicting upon their relationship. Despite this, my stepmother and her first husband are on amiable terms, and my father is even friends with the man.
The wife is usually the adulterer? Bullshit. It can go either way, you ignorant prick. You and your “Christian” ilk just like to blame everything on women.
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11:24 pm
“The betrayer in most relationships is the woman, who can’t stop flirting with past boyfriends and enters adultery.”
Source?
“I didn’t hear any mention of the father having a girlfriend in the report.”
Why should they mention whether or not the father has a girlfriend? It’s not relevant, as he is currently out of the child’s life.
“Instead, he’s out protecting our freedom while the mom here is having a great ol’ time with her new boyfriend, while this poor child is out wandering the streets and on the mends.”
So you think that females should be relegated to staying in the home and raising children while the men have careers, and now you’re having a bitch fit about it. How typical.
This is proof that some people simply aren’t fit to be parents. But no, you’ll piss and moan about this woman’s bad parenting skills, yet turn around and insist that she keep cranking them out.
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11:21 pm
Its will known that many cats will “talk to children” telling them “it’s ok to wander around and look for gays in vans”.
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11:25 pm
How much pot have you smoked tonight?
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11:26 pm
You missed that my phone autocorrected “well to will”. You need to point these things out so we don’t forget how smart you are.
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11:36 pm
You own a cell phone? Considering how you still use dial-up internet I’m surprised that you would own and know how to operate a cell phone that has internet capabilities. I don’t even own a cell phone that has internet capabilities.
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11:54 pm
I have a Treo 180 cellular phone. It’s sweet.
MrsAwesome keeps telling us we should get a better internets. But it would cost more, and I can’t justify spending the extra money knowing I could donate that money to the unfortunate.
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11:37 pm
“This is why she is in trade school.”
I’m not in trade school; I’m in college.
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11:57 pm
Vet tech is a trade like mechanic or plumber. Your school may tell you differently to justify increased tuition, but that does not make it so.
Bing “list of trade degrees”, veterinary technician is on every list.
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12:17 am
Say whatever you will, but I attend COLLEGE, not trade school.
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2:47 am
Yep, definitely being ripped off.
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11:45 am
http://www.mountida.edu/
This is the college I go to.
Where did you go to school? Potato Picker University?
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1:57 pm
“Where did you go to school? Potato Picker University?”
I posted my education here for you last week.
http://christwire.org/2011/03/10-videos-of-evil-cats-turning-on-their-owners/comment-page-1/#comment-73282
“Mount Ida College is an independent undergraduate and graduate college in Newton, Massachusetts with a legacy of innovative approaches to meet the changing needs of students and the world.”
Translation: Special Education.
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Here, a miracle dog saves a baby. I suggested wanted to share this story with everyone but instead, we find two lesbians can’t even accept the beauty of this story. A child is safe. A heroic father returns home, to protect his son after he spent months protecting us. This is a time to feel compassion and share in celebration of the heart of humanity. It is a story to reflect on how a dog is man’s best friend. When this child and future man had his most vulnerable moment, a dog protected him.
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11:49 am
“I suggested wanted to share this story with everyone but instead, we find two lesbians can’t even accept the beauty of this story.”
I’m not a lesbian. How many times do I have to tell you that lesbian porn is incredibly boring and a major turnoff (no offense, RD)?
“A heroic father returns home, to protect his son after he spent months protecting us.”
How is the father heroic?
“When this child and future man had his most vulnerable moment, a dog protected him.”
I agree. We should all thank Blanche Beecham for protecting that child.
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1:38 pm
Is Mount Ida the one where the silly old lady from Golden Girls went?
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2:02 pm
She had tenure there.
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I don’t think so.
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