From WABC-TV in New York:

A pit bull came to the rescue of a woman with Alzheimer’s who had gotten lost and fell down in the snow.

“So we were standing about here when I heard the sticks cracking,” said Cara Jones, dog owner.

It was late and dark and Cara Jones couldn’t figure out why her 2-year-old pit bull named “Creature” kept leading her into the brush Thursday night.

“She looked back at me and then barked, and there I saw a figure laying,” Jones said, “She was trying to get up and the sticks kept breaking on her, so she would fall back down.”

Shivering on the wet, cold ground was 89-year-old Carmen Mitchell who suffers from Alzheimer’s.

Mitchell had wandered away from her caretaker and somehow made it into the woods about a mile away.

She was lost for several hours.

…Rochelle Wason says she immediately called police and they responded in full-force with boots on the ground, K-9 units, and even a helicopter in the sky.

But still, they couldn’t find Carmen Mitchell.

“All the searchers were out there, all the volunteers were out there, everyone was putting in their effort here,” said Chief Richard Ivone, Piscataway Police Department

But ultimately, it was a spunky house pet who found the 89-year-old.

…Because of her Alzheimer’s, Luke Stapleton says his mother-in-law, who was treated for hypothermia, has no memory of what happened.

Stapleton says he’s grateful for Creature and says pit bulls get a bad rap.

“I know now that pit bulls are not just as they are described by other people,” Stapleton said.

“I had a lot of people looking down on me for having a pit bull, and I’m glad that I have her,” Jones said.

Yet another bulldog hero.