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Hephaestion
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posted 11 May 2005 02:00 PM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Offers to adopt a newborn girl found among a litter of puppies after being abandoned are pouring in to the Kenyan hospital where she is being treated, and the stray dog credited with her rescue has a home and a name - Mkombozi or Saviour.

As police searched for the infant's mother, a government spokesman expressed some skepticism Tuesday about the story of the dog's role in saving the child, dubbed Angel by hospital workers, and said authorities were investigating.

Mary Adhiambo, a resident of the compound where the dog lives, said Mkombozi apparently found the baby Friday wrapped in a plastic bag in the nearby Ngong Forest.

The dog reportedly dragged the baby across a busy road and through some barbed wire to a shed in the poor Nairobi neighbourhood where puppies from two stray dogs were sheltering.

"I saw a dog carrying a baby wrapped in a black dirty cloth as it crossed the road," witness Stephen Thoya was quoted by the independent Daily Nation newspaper as saying. "I was shocked at first, and when I tried to get a closer look, the dog ran through the fence and disappeared along a dirt road."

The infant was discovered after two children alerted adults that they heard the sound of a baby crying near their wooden and corrugated-iron shack. Residents found the baby lying next to the dog and her own pup.

Government spokesman Alfred Mutua said authorities were investigating the rescue story.



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Anchoress
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posted 11 May 2005 08:02 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"Dog Rescues Baby"... or "Puppies' Dinner Taken Away By Rescuers"
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Iggy
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posted 12 May 2005 12:01 AM      Profile for Iggy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Anchoress... lovely... haha.

I thought about that too while looking at the dog's picture. My first thought was "oh, that's another Littlest Hobo" but then realized if I can't understand my dear cat Puffy, who am I to assume the intentions of a dog on another continent through a picture in the national paper?

What bothers me more is the amount of adoption calls that have come in for both dog and would-be dinner. I mean no matter where these calls are coming from there is at least one scrubby kid being ignored just down the street, yet they will pour all their emotions into this peceived tale of heroism done doggy style, which I don't think is not justifable even if were true.

Let there be equal love. Let there be lunch.


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