Stray dog rescues baby abandoned in forest
May 11, 2005

A mother dog out foraging for food carries a plastic bag containing an infant back to her litter.
A female dog foraging for food found an abandoned baby girl in a Kenyan forest and carried it to its litter of puppies, villagers reported yesterday.

The stray carried the infant across a busy road and over a barbed-wire fence in a poor neighbourhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital, Nairobi.

The dog apparently found the baby on Friday in the plastic bag in which she had been abandoned, said Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the compound where the dog is now living.
It was unclear how the baby survived in the bag without suffocating. Doctors believe she had been abandoned about two days before the dog discovered her.

Medical workers found maggots in her umbilical cord, a product of days of neglect, said Hannah Gakuo, spokeswoman for the Kenyatta National Hospital where the girl was taken for treatment.

No one has yet claimed the baby, who has been named "Angel" by hospital workers.
Ms Gakuo said the 3.3-kilogram infant "was doing well, responding to treatment... and on antibiotics".

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