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[url]http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Dog-and-baby-are-doing-well/2005/05/11/1115585025538.html[/url]

Dog and baby are doing well
By Rodrique Ngowi
Nairobi
May 12, 2005

The stray dog that rescued an abandoned baby girl in a Kenyan forest has been adopted and named Mkombozi, or Saviour, while offers to adopt the newborn infant dubbed Angel are pouring into a Kenyan hospital.

As well-wishers at home and abroad inquired about the child, police said they were struggling to identify the woman who abandoned the baby.

"The publicity on the way the baby was rescued has sparked a lot of public interest in helping her," said Hannah Gakuo, spokeswoman for Kenyatta National Hospital, where the child is being treated for exposure and an infection in her umbilical cord. Queries have come from as far away as the US.

Government spokesman Alfred Mutua said the girl's rescue was amazing. "The Government is looking into it because, if it happened the way it has been relayed, it is one of those amazing things that happens in life that defies human explanation," Mr Mutua said.

Unwanted infants are often abandoned in Kenya, with poverty and failed relationships frequently blamed.

Mkombozi was being cared for yesterday after its last surviving puppy died for unknown reasons, the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals' spokeswoman Jean Gilchrist said.

Ms Gilchrist speculated that the dog may have rescued Angel to raise her because most of its puppies had died.

"She reckoned it was a young animal and possibly wanted to bring it up," Ms Gilchrist said. "It is rather a rare thing to happen."

Mary Adhiambo, a resident in the compound where the dog lives, said Mkombozi apparently found the baby on Friday in a plastic bag. The dog dragged her across a busy road and through barbed wire to a shed.

"I saw a dog carrying a baby wrapped in a black dirty cloth as it crossed the road," witness Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.

- AP

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