'Dog Rescues Baby' Story Called Fishy

(Nairobi, Kenya) The story has been reported globally. A foraging dog found an eight-pound baby girl wrapped in a dirty black cloth, carried her across a busy road through a barbed-wire fence, and placed the infant with her own litter of puppies. Well, all may not be as it seems. From NEWS24.com:

As offers to adopt an abandoned Kenyan infant reportedly rescued by a foraging dog continued to pour into Nairobi on Wednesday, officials expressed mounting scepticism at the heart-warming tale.

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While not prepared to dismiss the internationally publicised story as an outright hoax, doctors and employees at Kenyatta National Hospital, where the two-week-old infant girl, named "Angel" is recovering, said it may well be too good to be true.

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The claims sparked heated debate among doctors when the baby was brought to Kenyatta hospital for care, with one group of physicians dismissing the story and another accepting that a female dog nursing puppies could have been driven by maternal instinct to save the child.

Hospital spokesman Simon Githae declined to comment on the dispute but said the child did not bear a single scratch despite having been reportedly dragged through barbed wire by the dog.

Javan Agesa Madome, an animal behaviour expert at the Kenya Society for Protection and Care of Animals, said he believed the story but admitted to being unsure how an untrained street canine could have managed the feat.

Evidently, the dog and baby story may be a bunch of cock and bull. Either way, it's still fishy.

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