NEWS AC Stray dogs find baby Bihar

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Below the two accounts of this most recent case, I have

appended summaries of two others very similar to it. I also have on

file accounts of at least half a dozen other Indian cases in which

the alleged " dog menace " defended & protected other children when all

humans had failed them -- and have collected comparable accounts from

around the world, including many instances of feral cats as well as

well as street dogs undertaking heroic intervention.

 

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The Associated Press 4/22/2008, 8:48 p.m. EDT

 

Dogs find abandoned baby girl in India

 

NEW DELHI (AP) - Stray dogs located a baby girl abandoned under mud

and leaves in northeastern India and their barking alerted rescuers,

a government official said Tuesday.

 

The newborn was discovered Sunday when the dogs' yelps and howls drew

villagers to a fruit orchard, district magistrate Asangba Chuba Ao

told The Associated Press.

 

Bits of mud and dry leaves had been scattered on top of the child, he said.

 

The girl was placed in the care of a farm couple in the village of

Narhan, in the Nepal-bordering state of Bihar. Local officials had no

information about her birth parents.

 

Authorities did not provide an explanation for the child's apparent

abandonment. But a cultural preference for boys in India means women

face a great deal of pressure to produce male children, often leading

to sex-selective abortions and the abandonment of female infants.

 

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The Hindu Wednesday, April 23, 2008

 

Dogs bring baby back from grave

Special Correspondent

 

PATNA: She is destined to live, almost rising from the grave. It is

no ghost story, but one scripted by stray dogs in a Bihar village.

 

At Narhan in Samastipur district, the newborn baby girl was abandoned

by her mother under a mound of soil on a field on Sunday night.

 

On Monday, a pack of stray dogs which went there removed the soil and

kept barking, drawing the villagers' attention. Adding to their

inquisitiveness was the cry of the child herself. The people then

gathered in large numbers to see the rescued child.

 

She surely is a gift to a childless couple who have since adopted

her. Meanwhile, officials are searching for her mother.

 

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06/01/96 Kolkata, India Pack of feral dogs

Found, guarded abandoned baby at

dump, followed rescuer to police station and waited outside.

 

 

11/18/94 Bhadrak, Orissa, India Two strays

Found, revived, kept warm a stillborn

infant declared dead by hospital, " remains " were left in field.

 

 

 

 

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