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An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing her safely alongside her own new puppies.

The country's media are calling her "the miracle baby".

She was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a shanty town outside the capital, Buenos Aires.

The mother is said to have panicked and abandoned the baby in a field, surrounded by wooden boxes and rubbish.

Then along came La China, the dog which somehow picked up the baby and carried him 50m to place him alongside her own puppies.

The dog's owner heard the child crying and found her covered with a rag.

The baby, weighing 4kg (8lb 13oz), had some slight injuries, but no bite marks. The owner called the police and the child is now being looked after by the authorities, while a decision is taken about her future.

The frightened mother appeared shortly after her baby was found.

The Argentine media has descended on the shanty town, talking of "the Argentine Romulus and Remus", the founders of Rome, abandoned as babies and rescued by a wolf, nearly 3,000 years ago.

La China, worried about her own puppies, is reported to be petrified by her new-found fame, and her owner says he is worried that she is not eating.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7577275.stm

Hooray for La China!

cool

but an 8 lb baby isnt premature

cool

but an 8 lb baby isnt premature

They did not say how premature ... maybe just enough that she had not been able to make a trip into any health care org or midwife or something and had to have it where she was . I don't think it was the point of the story...

no its not the point of the story.

but what else is there to say about it except that i doubt that its true.

Awesome.

La China, worried about her own puppies, is reported to be petrified by her new-found fame, and her owner says he is worried that she is not eating.

Oh goody. The media attention itself has the potential of killing this dog.

no its not the point of the story.

but what else is there to say about it except that i doubt that its true.

Simply because you assume based off the weight of the baby that it can not be premature. Even when the story did not elaborate if it was a day or a month so?

I guess its not enough to overturn it in my mind ... if they had given some hard dates on roughly how premature it was and the babys weight gave it a good chance of actually contesting that evidence I would be all for it but without the story making any such claims I guess I would have to hold my judgment until there was more evidence

Simply because you assume based off the weight of the baby that it can not be premature. Even when the story did not elaborate if it was a day or a month so?

I guess its not enough to overturn it in my mind ... if they had given some hard dates on roughly how premature it was and the babys weight gave it a good chance of actually contesting that evidence I would be all for it but without the story making any such claims I guess I would have to hold my judgment until there was more evidence
no

because there were no bite marks on a newborn that was dragged 50 meters by a dog.

no

because there were no bite marks on a newborn that was dragged 50 meters by a dog.

Dogs transport their pups by that same way and they don't wind up biting the things.

Dogs transport their pups by that same way and they don't wind up biting the things.
puppies dont weigh 8 pounds

puppies dont weigh 8 pounds

A few extra pounds isn't going to suddenly make their teeth sharper. The extra force would just go to the dog's muscles anyway.

La China, worried about her own puppies, is reported to be petrified by her new-found fame, and her owner says he is worried that she is not eating.

I hope the media backs off. It's great that she saved a human child, but she has to take care of her own puppies.

Always useful to lay down a store of fresh meat for when your puppies are weaned.

The words "Good Dog" don't quite fit in here.