K9 Officer Rescues Lost Non-Verbal Child by Following the Boy’s Scent in Reverse to Find His Home

In North Carolina, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office received a call that a child was wandering alone on the road on July 7th.

Dispatching an officer to the Waxhaw Indian Trail Road, the child was located and secured, but being autistic and non-verbal, the officer had no idea where the boy had wandered away from.

Being that the responder was a K-9 Unit, and was working alongside his trusty 1-year-old bloodhound Remi, Deputy B. Belk utilized the dog’s incredible sense of smell to “reverse” the normal scent tracking process to find the boy’s home.


“Normally, [scent dogs] track from where a person left to try to find where that person is currently. This time we were doing it reverse,” said Lieutenant Public Information Officer James Maye to CNN.

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Joseph G said:

Wow, Michie, that is so awesome. God is a brilliant Creator, isn't He?

Related... my brother's german shepherds sniffed out his wife's breast cancer before she was diagnosed. She knew something was up because they would sit and stare at her or lay their heads on her lap more than usual. She had to have surgery but the docs believe they got it all in time. Gave me an opportunity to plant a little seed - told my brother to remember that those pups are a gift from God. *smile*

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Thanks be to God! Dogs are a gift!