Loyal dog tracks down owner to hospital 20 blocks from home

A MINIATURE schnauzer who was missing her sick owner ran 20 blocks from home and somehow found the right hospital room.

THEY say that dogs can sense when you’re down.

And this miniature schnauzer must have known something was wrong when her owner went into hospital for surgery.

So the pup travelled an incredible 20 blocks from home to find her on the ward.

The miniature schnauzer made an epic journey to reach her owner.

Nancy Franck was recovering from surgery when Sissy appeared on the ward. No one can work out how the dog found her way there, but the unexpected visit brought an instant smile to her owner’s face.

“That was great, just being able to see her,” Mrs Franck told KCRG. “That was perfect. I’m glad she thought of it.

“I don’t know how she found the right door or did any of that herself.”

The pet owner’s husband, Dale, had been worrying all day after the dog had disappeared from their Cedar Rapids home. “She had never run away before,” he said.

The couple live around 20 blocks from Mercy Medical Center, with Sissy and their other miniature schnauzer, Barney.

Hospital security guard Samantha Conrad couldn’t believe her eyes when she spotted the wandering pooch. “We looked up and there was this dog just that was just running across the lobby,” she said. “We started looking at the tags and it had the address and we saw how far away this dog lived.

“It was quite an amazing journey that this dog made.”

Mrs Frank had been in hospital for about two weeks when Sissy turned up.

The family had never taken Sissy to the hospital, although Mrs Franck works next door at the Hall Perrine Cancer Center, and the dog had been in the car when the family had dropped her off.

But that doesn’t explain how she knew exactly where her owner was.

“She wanted to go see her mom,” said Mr Franck.

Mrs Franck was recovering from surgery when her pooch appeared.