Street Dogs Save Baby Girl’s Life

22 Apr 08

A baby girl was saved in India by stray street dogs after her mother abandoned her in a mound of mud, according to officials in Patna, India.

In a report by Reuters it is said that hundreds of villagers have flocked to the remote Indian village of Bihar to see the newborn girl who was saved by three street dogs.

“The dogs removed the soil around and began to bark and the baby started crying which drew attention of the local villagers,” Ram Narayan Sahani, a senior government official, said on Tuesday from Bihar’s Samastipur district.

The newborn is now safe in the lap of a childless couple who have offered to adopt her.

Police said they were looking for the girl’s mother, who they think had left the girl to die. Female foeticide, though illegal in India, is widespread as boys are traditionally preferred to girls as breadwinners, and families have to pay huge dowries to marry off their daughters. The United Nations says an estimated 2,000 unborn girls are illegally aborted every day in India.

SuperWoof to three noble street dogs! Thank the stars for the heart of dogs! Which just goes to show that puppyhearts have much to make human hearts ashamed.

Gggrwwoof!

Archibald, Esq.