Elderly dog stays with lost toddler for 15 hours in woods

Dog and child found safe and well after night on a mountainside

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Toddler Aurora Bennett was lost in Queensland, Australia
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An elderly family dog has been made an honorary police dog in Queensland after he stayed with a missing toddler for 15 hours.

Max, who is both deaf and partially-sighted, spent the night by the side of three-year-old Aurora Bennett when she went missing in the wooded hills of her family’s rural home. Meanwhile, police and rescuers were frantically searching for the girl.

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