The THREE VERSIONS about the dog and the new born baby ..

Yet another heartstring-tugging tale (with photos) of a dog’s supposedly saving an abandoned newborn child is creating misty eyes among social media users.

ORIGIN:In November 2015, social media around the globe were awash in photographs of a dog seemingly carrying a newborn child (with umbilical cord still attached) in its mouth, with accompanying text proclaiming that the canine had found the child abandoned on the street and had carried it to safety:

A dog found a newborn child that had been abandoned in the street by his mother. The dog took the baby in her mouth while avoiding hurting him and put him in front of a house. Thanks to this dog, this baby today is alive and in perfect health.

Verifying the veracity of these images has proved difficult, as the accompanying text typically makes no mention of details such as time and place. (Some iterations of the message do mention location but attribute the story to multiple, widely varying parts of the world.) Similar reports regarding dog rescues of abandoned children have certainly appeared in the news media over the years (sometimes in tandem by photographs that have no actual connection to the story being reported), but none of them appears related to this iteration.

The most common version of this item holds that it occurred somewhere in or around Saudi Arabia, as reported in the Saudi publication Sada:

A picture went viral in Saudi Arabia this week, showing a dog carrying a newborn baby in its mouth to take her to a nearby house, where she was rushed to hospital.

The Saudi daily ‘Sada’ said it does not know whether the incident took place in the Gulf Kingdom or another country but it added that the dog saved the baby’s life.

“Those who posted the pictures said the dog carried the baby to the nearest house, whose dwellers rushed her to the hospital…the baby’s life was saved by the dog,” the paper said, adding that the baby was apparently dumped by her mother near a waste bin.

At this point we don’t yet know whether these photographs are authentic (rather than capturing something that was staged), whether the backstory attributed to them (about a dog’s finding and rescuing an abandoned newborn) is accurate, or the time and place of their setting.

Thanks to this gentle stray dog, the baby boy is alive today

VIA: snopes.com

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Stray Dog Pulls Newborn from Garbage Dump

Photo credit: seamosmasanimales.com

The dog who was scavenging for food in a garbage dump came across the newborn who still had the umbilical cord attached. The smart dog gently carried the baby in her mouth out of the dump, walked a few hundred feet to the closest house and handed the baby over to helpful humans hands. There, as if asking “please help him,” the dog showed the humans the baby and left him to their care.

The home residents rushed the baby to the nearest hospital and doctors carefully cared for the tiny newborn. Medical representatives said the baby boy is in great condition and was unharmed by the dog.

 VIA .lifewithdogs.tv 11/04/2015 POSTED BY KATHERINE

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