Paw prints of pet dog help trace missing toddler

Police are crediting a Michigan family’s dog for leading them to a lost toddler after the small child went missing for several hours earlier in the week. Dominic Peake told the Detroit Free Press he was thrown into a panic after realizing that his two-year-old had escaped from the Paw Paw family home early Wednesday morning. Peake said that he called the Van Buren County Police Department after searching the property and the surrounding cornfields, woods and swamps, managing only to find his small son’s sippy cup. The boy’s mother, Myhia Perez, said discovering that her son had gone missing was terrifying. ‘I about died,’ she said. After responding to the scene, police said they quickly discovered paw prints leading to a wooded area near the house. Sheriff Daniel Abbott said that the family’s dog, a pit-boxer named Apollo, may have saved Princeton Peake’s life by sticking by his side.