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Dogs save abandoned baby girl
Published on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:21, Updated at Fri, Apr 25, 2008 in Wild Wacky World section
Tags: Girl Child, Stray Dogs , Patna
SAFE AND SOUND: The girl was saved by stray dogs after she was abandoned by her mother.
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Patna: Hundreds of villagers have flocked to a remote Indian village to see a baby girl who was saved by stray dogs after she was abandoned in a mound of mud by her mother, officials said on Tuesday.
Villagers in the eastern state of Bihar saved the new-born on the weekend after they saw three dogs barking near a baby covered with mud.
"The dogs removed the soil around and began to bark and the baby started crying which drew attention of the local villagers," Ram Narayan Sahani, a senior government official, said on Tuesday from Bihar's Samastipur district.
"The girl is crying but is safe in the lap of a childless couple who have adopted her."
Police said they were looking for the girl's mother, who they think had left the girl to die.
Female foeticide, though illegal in India, is widespread as boys are traditionally preferred to girls as breadwinners, and families have to pay huge dowries to marry off their daughters.
The United Nations says an estimated 2,000 unborn girls are illegally aborted every day in India.
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Dogs are more %22humane%22... those stray dogs could have easily made the kid their dinner but they didnt and thats
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Nice Dog. :) We have to learn lot of things from it :)
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