Florida authorities released bodycam video Monday that appears to show a dog leading a deputy sheriff to a woman whose husband reported her missing that night.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office posted video of the Sept. 25 incident on Facebook Monday. The video begins by showing a man at the door of a home in Destin, a town about 50 miles east of Pensacola.
The man tells Deputy Devon Miller that his wife has been missing for an hour that evening. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office declined to provide the couple’s names in an email and said the woman is 86 years old.
Eeyore led an Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy to a missing woman in Shalimar, Fla., on Monday.Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
“She just takes that dog, but she never takes more than 10 or 15 minutes,” he said. “It’s almost an hour now. It’s over an hour now.”
The video then shows Miller returning to their car and driving off before he spots the loose canine, whom the sheriff’s office identified as Eeyore. Miller then gets outside to greet the dog before he follows it.
“Where’s your mama?” Miller says to the dog. “Show me where your mama is?”
Eeyore then leads the deputy to the missing woman, who is near grass. The video does not show the woman, but Miller describes her to the sheriff’s office as lying on the sidewalk, “alert and conscious.”
Miller tells the woman that the dog helped find her. The woman repeats the deputy’s comments in disbelief before she reveals that Eeyore is her adult child’s dog.
“You’re such a good boy,” she says to the dog. “Grandma loves you.”