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    Warm fuzzies

    Puppies save three-year-old boy lost in freezing Virginia woods

    BY JANE H. FURSE
    DAILY NEWS WRITER

    Monday, December 8th 2008, 1:57 PM

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    Jaylynn Thorpe, 3, with his family.
    The two hero puppies who saved Jaylynn's life.

    A toddler lost in the Virginia woods was back home safe Sunday thanks to two puppies who kept him warm through a harrowing night of freezing temperatures.

    Jaylynn Thorpe, 3, wandered away from his baby-sitter at 4 p.m. Friday and was missing for 21 hours as hundreds of friends, family and law enforcement officials searched for him in the thick woods of Halifax County, fearing the worst.

    "The only thing we wanted to do was just keep searching until we found him," Halifax County Sheriff Stanley Noblin told reporters.

    Jaylynn's frantic family knew time was not on its side.

    "We didn't forget the issue that 17 degrees was almost unbearable," said his father, James Thorpe.

    "People all over the State of Virginia was down there looking for that child. For a while there, one time, I didn't know whether they would find him or not," said the child's grandmother and guardian, Katherine Elliot.

    Officials said the lost little boy and the two family puppies wandered up to a mile in the dark, even across a highway, but it wasn't until Saturday afternoon that members of the search team found him sitting by a tree, the two puppies nestled against him.

    The little boy didn't say anything, according to rescue team member Jerry Gentry, but instead "just opened his arms up like, 'I'm ready to go.'"

    "When I first saw him, he was like, 'Momma, I got cold. I slept in the woods last night. The puppies kept me warm.' He told me that ... the dogs slept up against him. And I'm sure the body heat kept him warm," said his mother, Sarah Ingram.

    Billie Jo Roach, another member of the search party that found the boy, said the puppies refused to leave his side.

    As the child was placed in an ambulance to be taken to a local hospital for examination, "The puppies were watching where he went.

    "Where he went, they went," Roach said.

    As word went out that the child was alive and well, family members cheered and cried for joy.

    "Praise the Lord! Welcome home, Jaylynn!" yelled his aunt, Amy Zimmerman.

    Close to 300 people from North Carolina and Virginia joined in the search to find Jaylynn.

    "I love you! God bless you," Ingram told the rescue teams.

    "I think I just said, 'Thank you Lord' ... for us to have another chance!" said the child's father.

    The boy spent Saturday night under observation at Halifax Regional Hospital and chowed down on a double cheeseburger, a hot dog, strawberry ice cream and French fries.

    Meanwhile, the furry heroes, their tails wagging, were rewarded with food.

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    The boy spent Saturday night under observation at Halifax Regional Hospital and chowed down on a double cheeseburger, a hot dog, strawberry ice cream and French fries.
    Fatty.

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    WTF

    Unless I read this wrong, this kid was 3 years old? Yet he is eating all that crap?

    Please someone point out this kid isnt 3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dimmauk View Post
    Jaylynn Thorpe, 3...

    ...toddler lost in the Virginia woods...
    Is 3 considered a toddler still? That kids looks like he's 6.

    Also, the puppies aren't being completely altruistic here. This was a survival thing, and they needed him as a heat-tank as much as he needed them.

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    Most kids wont eat the entire meal. Usually a couple bites sporadically. PLus he hadnt eaten in 21 hours.

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    AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

    also he was probably crazy low on calories after his body had to stay warm for a night of 17 degree weather. plus that kind of stuff is comfort food.

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    FATTY!

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    Upon leaving the hospital, the boy, 3, promptly ate the two puppies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Feielle View Post
    Is 3 considered a toddler still? That kids looks like he's 6.
    yes, 18mo-3yrs is a toddler.

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    This story is just a whole ruse so that their town can have him play on their under 10 softball team when he is really 13 years old. If someone tries to dispute it they can just bring up this hoax of an article stating the boy is younger than he really is.

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    My dog wouldn't do that to save my life. He would cuddle to save his own. Having had to many kids wander off while watching them makes me glad he learned a lesson. ( I can say that since he lived.) Hope he learned to keep with whoever is watching him.

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