A Dog Stayed By His Owner's Side After He Died On A Hike, Helping Rescuers Find Them

"Without the barking of his loyal companion Daisy, we never would have located the missing man,” said the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.

Krystie Lee Yandoli
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on April 27, 2019, at 12:05 p.m. ET

After a man went missing in Washington state on Thursday, a rescue team was led to his body when the man’s loyal dog, having stayed by his side, started barking and drew attention to the pair, officials said.

According to a lengthy Facebook post from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, the unidentified 64-year-old man was reported missing by his wife when he and his dog, Daisy, did not return home after a hike on Wednesday, something he did often.

Authorities started to search for the missing man at daybreak on Thursday, searching by foot and also trying to ping the man’s cell phone to find his location.

Eventually, authorities found the man’s parked car and discovered a list of geocache locations inside the car. They used maps to find some of these nearby locations, but ultimately it was the dog’s barking that helped the rescue team find the man’s body.

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