A mother wild dog and her cubs saved a baby abandoned with its umbilical cord on a cold night. On the 20th (local time), India’s G-News reported that a newborn baby abandoned in a field was saved thanks to a pack of wild dogs.
On the morning of the 18th, the sound of a baby crying echoed through Saristal village in Chhattisgarh, India. Wherever I followed the sound, there was a baby lying with the umbilical cord abandoned. A witness said, “Around 11 a.m., on my way to work, I heard a baby crying in the field over there. I followed the sound and saw a naked newborn baby lying down with wild dog pups and crying.
“The mother wild dog was circling around,” he explained. The witness said he was wary of the mother wild dog at first. He said she was starving and feared wild dogs might harm the baby. But he soon realized that his worries were unfounded.
The witness explained that the mother wild dog and her cubs kept the baby, who had been abandoned with the umbilical cord and no clothes, alive all night. He said, “The wild dog pups looked like they had just been born. He added, “The mother wild dog that was circling around looked at me and nodded, probably because she wanted to save her baby with a mother’s heart.” Regarding this, a local resident said, “At this time of year, the night air is quite cold. “The naked newborn survived because of the body heat of the mother wild dog and her cubs,” he emphasized. The local temperature at the time the baby was discovered was around 10 degrees.
Another resident named Premnath also added, “It’s a miracle that the baby survived.” He continued, “Do you know how vicious stray dogs are? “Parents who abandon their babies in a dog-infested field in the middle of the night are criminals,” he pointed out.
According to reports, the abandoned newborn is a baby girl, and she is currently receiving treatment at a hospital. The police have begun an investigation to find the baby’s parents. According to Article 317 of the Indian Penal Code, any parent or guardian who abandons or neglects a child under the age of 12 is subject to imprisonment for up to 7 years. In India, where there is a strong preference for male children, abortion, burial alive, abandonment, and human trafficking of female children are common. In particular, with the introduction of ultrasound technology that can determine the sex of a fetus in the 1990s, selective abortions increased rapidly. According to a 2006 UNICEF report, since 1986, 10 million female babies have been aborted or killed at birth in India.
However, there are recent signs of improvement in the sex ratio. In India’s National Family Health Survey (NFHS), which is conducted every five years by the Indian Ministry of Health, the sex ratio of newborns from 2019 to 2021 was 929 girls per 1,000 boys, a slight increase from 919 girls five years ago. In response to this, the Indian daily Times of India commented, “India has made progress by moving away from the ideology of preferring boys.”
