Posted on 08/22/2008 10:16:04 AM PDT by traumer
An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.
The country's media are calling him "the miracle baby".
He was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a shanty town outside the capital, Buenos Aires.
She is said to have panicked and abandoned the boy in a field, surrounded by wooden boxes and rubbish.
Then along came La China, the dog which somehow picked up the baby and carried him 50m to place him alongside her own puppies.
The dog's owner heard the child crying and found him covered with a rag.
The baby, weighing 4kg (8lb 13oz), had some slight injuries, but no bite marks. The owner called the police and the child is now being looked after by the authorities, while a decision is taken about his future.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Thanks for the ping NW_AZ!
Hair, Slings, you see this?
>>>Maybe we should encourage dogs to immigrate here...
They already do with the Save A Sato program.
That takes strays from 3rd world countries to keep our own pounds stocked so they don’t lose money and have to close.
Thank PETA for that.
When the child was 5 or 6 years old, DSS finally found out, and they came and took the child into the system. The "mother" lost custody, the child went to a foster home, and the mama dog, who cared for her one "puppy" so devotedly and for so much longer than is normal for a dog to care for young, responded to their separation by refusing to eat, eventually dying of grief and starvation.
As the child was rescued at such a young age, he may have made a greater recovery than have other "feral" children-IOW, he may still have had the capacity to learn to speak, and to respond emotionally to humans, etc. But why couldn't they have found some way to rescue him AND his devoted dog-mama?
So, the little pooch was cruisin' the neighborhood and got punished with puppies, eh?
Beautifully put ...
Dog protected abandoned newborn, doctors say
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Uh, it’s a SHE (not all dogs are males, you know).
As for the “God” thing - only in English.
An ANIMAL has more compassion for a baby than the HUMAN mother ... .
Thanks for the PING! This is such a heartwarmer and I’m puddling up a little reading it.
Can’t remember where I read this, but a child was asked why s/he thought people lived longer than dogs. The child’s answer was that people have to live a long time to learn how to love; dogs don’t need very long to learn that.
Hmmm a dog that’s more humane than Obama....he would have let it die. Why am I not surprised by this?
This story really needs to be worked into a McCain ad.
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