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 Stray Dog saves abandoned child
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Heres a great Dog story that happend last year
Stray dog saves abandoned baby in Kenya
May 9, 2005, 10:16AM
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.
"She is doing well, responding to treatment, she is stable. ... She is on antibiotics," Kenyatta National Hospital spokeswoman Hanna Gakuo told The Associated Press from the hospital, where health workers called the infant Angel.
Kenya's media often report the abandonment of newborns by mothers. Poverty and the inability to care for the child are seen as the root cause of the problem. Most people who abandon babies are never caught.
The child had not yet been claimed.
"Abandoned babies are normally taken to the Kenyatta National Hospital because it is a public hospital," Gakuo said. "People are now donating diapers and baby clothes for this one."
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Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:21 pm
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Amazing story.
a few years ago a dog found a baby buried under some earth, it was near death. (in theUK)
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Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:43 pm
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Dog stories never cease to amaze me ...when I was young I have fond memories of a little boy ,me and my dog Patch (a fox terrier) our reltionship was so close ..we would sit under a tin roof out the back of our house just listening to the rain...it was being so close ..I stlll remember
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:07 pm
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we only ever had cats, i wasnt allowed a dog,i always wanted one tho.
i had to wait til i was an adult and get my own dog.
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Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:31 pm
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Cats can be wonderful but they dont have the closeness that seems to happen with a dog..dogs are smoochers and they will sit at our knee for hours ...We too have had cats in the past and they were great companions ..We used to have one cat that would sit on anybodys knee and as sure as eges were eggs would settle down and dig its claws into your knee..we lost a lot friends that way..
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:18 pm
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 cats can be menacing at times.
my Giz is ace at giving out dirty looks, sometimes he looks so evil
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