Monday, May 9, 2005

STRAY DOG SAVES BABY

Three cheers for the animal kingdom showing more love for humans than many humans do!

Just a quick post, in fact, I'll just run the clip from the article from AP.org available over at News.Yahoo.com:
NAIROBI, Kenya - A stray dog saved the life of a newborn baby after finding the abandoned infant in a forest and apparently carrying it across a busy road and through some barbed wire to her litter of puppies, witnesses said.

The stray dog found the infant, clad in tattered clothing, in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital of Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.

The dog apparently found the baby Friday in the plastic bag in which the infant had been abandoned, said Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the shed where the animal was guarding its puppies. The seven-pound, four-ounce infant was taken to the hospital for treatment on Saturday.
Apparently, the baby is doing well. I hope they don't do what people usually like to do in situations like this and name the child after her savior. Then again, the word they use for "dog" in Nairobi may sound quite pretty....

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