Dog rescuing an abandoned baby girl :
Embroidery Presentation and the text
of the story below are from
Little Sister Jane Namayiani of Jesus,
(Toy Market, Kibera-Tel Number: +254- 711855249), Nairobi - Kenya.
In 2005
A dog in Race Course area of Dagoretti Corner, Nairobi, proved that it is truly more than man’s best friend by rescuing an abandoned new baby from a forest...
The baby girl, christened “Angel” by the staff of Kenyatta National Hospital where she is being attended to, must have been dumped by its mother.
The dog was said to have been foraging for food for its puppies in the nearby Ngong forest where it stumbled on the little baby.
It carried the baby to its owner’s house at around 11 am. The infant was wrapped in an old tattered short. In true motherly fashion the dog, together with one its puppies, watched over the infant until someone came.
Surprisingly, Angel was unharmed despite the fact that the dog had crossed the busy Ngong Road and passed through a barbed wire fence to get to its master’s home.
“I was going about my job in the house when boys playing nearby told me that there was a baby crying next to the dogs,” said Ms. Linet Gogany who lives nearby.
She then approached the two resting dogs with the baby protectively placed between them. There, she found one of the infant’s legs dangling out of the dirty black short. Fearing that it was dead, she raised an alarm, attracting neighbours.
The baby is being attended to by a nurse at the Kenyatta National Hospital (Nairobi) after officers from Karen police station took it to the facility ...
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Does this story evoke some response in me?
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