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Kenyans Eager to Adopt Baby Rescued by Dog

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:08:33 PM
By RODRIQUE NGOWI

A nurse holds the bady named Angel at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Offers to adopt the newborn baby who was saved by a dog from death in a forest poured at the hospital.  The 3.3 kilogram (7.28 pounds) infant not even bruised by the dog that retrieved her Friday. A nursing dog foraging for food retrieved the abandoned baby girl in a forest and carried the infant to its litter of puppies in Kenya, witnesses said Monday. The stray dog carried the infant across a busy road and a barbed wire fence in a low-income neighborhood bordering the Ngong Forests in the capital, Nairobi. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)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 "Savior."

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.


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