A dog named Eeyore turned into a very good boy and a hero of the hour after leading a Florida sheriff’s deputy to where a missing 86-year-old woman had fallen while walking him, body-cam footage shows.

The woman’s husband reported her missing on the night of 25 September after she failed to return from her walk in their Destin neighborhood in the Panhandle region of the US state.

“She just takes that dog, but she never takes more than 10 or 15 minutes,” the worried husband told Devon Miller, an Okaloosa county sheriff’s deputy, according to the footage released on Monday. “It’s almost an hour now. It’s over an hour now.”

Miller drove around the neighborhood until she spotted Eeyore in the middle of the road. The dog trotted up to the deputy, who responded: “Hi! Where’s your mommy?”

The dog then led her to the nearby spot where the woman had fallen.

“He practically dragged me to her,” Miller later said in a video the department released on social media on Wednesday.

The woman, who was alert and later taken to a medical facility, was astonished that Eeyore had guided the deputy to her, noting that it was not even her dog.

“He came up to your car?” the woman asked Miller. “Oh, sweetheart … Oh Eeyore, you’re such a good boy. Grandma loves you.”