Max is a 17-year-old Blue Heeler. It may be deaf, partially blind, and getting on in his years, but that didn't stop him from playing the role of loving companion and hero to a lost three-year-old girl in Queensland, Australia.
According to ABC Brisbane, Aurora was first reported missing on Friday after apparently wandering away from her grandmother's house. Rescuers, including the local police and volunteers, searched the surrounding bushland throughout the night, but were unable to find her.
On Saturday, however, they had better luck. Leisa Bennett, Aurora's grandmother, was with a group of searchers when they heard the girl's voice.
Max had apparently spent the rainy night with Aurora on top of a mountain.
"The area around the house is quite mountainous and is very inhospitable terrain to go walking in," Bennett's partner Kelly Benston told the news channel, "so she'd travelled quite a distance with her dog that was quite loyal to her."
Thankfully, other than a few scrapes and bruises, Aurora is in good health.
Now Max is Well and he's now an honorary police dog.
Great Max, you are great.
Yahoo