Minutes after taking his Miniature Schnauzers, Sissy and Barney, for a walk last week near his Iowa home, Dale Franck realized Sissy was missing. “I was scared to death and I was crying,” he said. “I’m sorry, but that’s my baby.” At 5 a.m. the next day, he got a call from Mercy Hospital where his wife, Nancy, was being treated for complications from a cancer-related surgery. Somehow, Sissy had made her way to the hospital, 20 blocks away, where Nancy was staying, even though she’d never been there before. Nancy’s daughter, Sara Wood, went to pick Sissy up. After all of Sissy’s effort to get there, the hospital staff allowed Wood to bring the dog in for a quick visit with Nancy. “We could only stay a few minutes but I’m sure she enjoyed every second of that few minutes,” Wood said. — Read it at The Blaze