A 17-year-old deaf and partly blind Australian dog has achieved hero status for helping save a 3-year-old girl who was lost overnight after wandering into bushland near her home.
According to reports in local media, Max, who is a cattle dog breed known as a blue heeler, followed the girl as she wandered more than a mile from her family property in New South Wales on Friday night. He then stayed with her overnight as temperatures fell into the 50s and rain fell before leading the girl’s grandmother and rescuers to her the next morning. Click here for more details from News 2