A dedicated dog stubbornly refused to follow officers who tried to lead him back home — until they followed him to his owner’s missing elderly mother who collapsed during a late-night walk.

A deputy with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call on Sept. 25 reporting a missing senior in Destin, Fla. One frantic man was waiting on his doorstep as he explained that his 86-year-old wife hadn’t returned from a walk with their adult child’s dog, according to body camera footage .

“She just takes that dog, but she never takes more than 10 or 15 minutes. It’s almost an hour now. It’s over an hour now,” he said. 4

Deputy Devon Miller, who previously rescued a cat from a drainage ditch, soon located the loose pup, Eeyore, wandering down the street. She pulled over and greet

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