A 7-year-old Tennessee boy, lost and shivering in the cold, cuddled with his dog to stay warm before rescuers reached them.
Dominic Jeffries was out with his pooch Coco when they became caught in a space between bushes and a wall near their home last week in Cordova, Tenn.
Temperatures dipped below freezing but Dominic held on right with Coco, his family’s black Shih Tzu, officials told ABC News.
Dominic had a coat on but eventually took it off to cover up Coco, fearing the dog was getting too cold.
They were found the next morning by searching police. The little guy was afraid when he saw cops.
“He said he heard us and saw the blue lights and thought he was in trouble,” the boy’s legal guardian Robbyne Manning said. “When he used to be with his parents, blue lights mean you’re in trouble.”
After the scary 14-hour experience, Dominic told Manning said that he wants to be a police officer when he grows up to help “people who get lost.”
“He was just happy,” Manning said. “The police talked to him and said not all the time [do blue lights] mean you’re in trouble.”