Nation IN BRIEF : MISSOURI : Dogs Who Saved Boy to Get a New Home
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Josh Carlisle, a 10-year-old with Down’s syndrome, followed two dogs from his Springfield, Mo., yard into the Ozarks. For three days, as temperatures dipped into single digits, the dogs apparently kept the boy alive with their body heat. The dogs are “God’s angels,” said Josh’s stepfather, Lynn Coffey. He and Josh’s mother, Johnny Coffey, pledged to give the strays a new home.
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