22 April, 2008
PATNA, INDIA (Reuters) – Hundreds of villagers have flocked to a remote Indian village to see a baby girl who was saved by three stray dogs after she was abandoned in a mound of mud by her mother, officials said on Tuesday.
"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, whom they think had left the girl to die.
Female feticide, 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.
Source: http://www.eons.com/groups/topic/797374-Dogs-Rescue-Abandoned-Baby
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