Dog Leads Rescuers to Missing Texas Woman with Dementia

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https://www.southernliving.com/culture/pets/sherry-noppe-missing-katy-tx-found-dog-max-barking

Dog Leads Rescuers to Missing Texas Woman with Dementia

“We feel like he was awake out there the entire time for three days—wide awake, protecting her.”

By Meghan Overdeep
Updated May 23, 2022

An afternoon walk turned into an agonizing three-day ordeal for a Texas family earlier this month.

Sherry Noppe, 63, took her three-year-old black Labrador retriever, Max, for a walk on May 3. When Sherry, who had recently been diagnosed with dementia didn't return to her home in Katy, her concerned husband and children contacted law enforcement.

In no time, community members as well as search dog teams from Alpha Search and Recovery and volunteers on horseback from Texas EquuSearch were combing the area.

There was no sign of Sherry and Max until May 5, when two search dogs alerted to her scent. Hours later, searchers heard a dog barking from a thickly wooded area in George Bush Park in Houston. It was Max.

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1. My god, dogs are amazing.

My dogs are family members in our home. I realize that there are working dogs and all sorts, but in our house they are part of the family.

From protecting humans by acting as a security system, tracking them down, being wholly devoted to their people, they rarely cease to amaze me.

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2. That dog is a hero