Sangha of Auspicious Companions

Mysterious ‘Hero’ Dog Leads Police Straight to Missing 3-year-old Officer Says in Body Cam Video

A police officer hooked his own instincts up to those of a local dog to find a missing 3-year-old in Kentucky in early January. Officer Josh Thompson was canvassing the street near the boy’s house with another officer when a dog started walking with them. After Thompson said “let’s go find this kid,” the dog spun around and started trotting back in the direction they had come from, barking periodically to say “hurry up.” Returning to the back of the house, the dog ran to a parked car, where the boy was locked inside with the child locks on. After coaching him on how to open the door, the boy “jumped out of the car, bear hugged my neck and wouldn’t let go,” said Thompson. He doesn’t know where the dog came from (neither does the department nor CBS) “but it was a blessing from God that day.”

Be The Change

Today, notice when your first instinct is to be wary or to keep moving past something unexpected-a stray animal, an unfamiliar person, an interruption to your plan. Like Officer Thompson, who paused to follow a barking dog when he could have dismissed it, practice trusting that small tug of intuition that says “pay attention here.” Let yourself be led off-script just once, even if it feels inefficient or uncertain, and see what you might discover when you merge your heart and mind in the moment.