Sometimes, the best man for the job is a dog.
When 13-year-old Dakota “Cody” Trenkle went missing in July, a group of family, friends, responders, and volunteers spent more than three days combing the steep, heavily forested area near Goose Creek Lake, Missouri, looking for him.
Yet it was K9 Daryl who did something none of the human searchers could do — he sniffed out Cody, who had fallen off his skateboard and tumbled 240 feet into a ravine, coming to rest in about 12 inches of water.
It was some of the most challenging terrain imaginable, according to Lt. Joe Gillam, the leader of the K9 unit from Farmington Correctional Center, where Daryl usually works.
“Pretty much a straight down ditch,” he told St.
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