Nairobi — A stray dog saved the life of a newborn baby after finding the abandoned infant in a forest – apparently carrying the infant across a busy road and through some barbed wire to join her litter of puppies, witnesses said.
The stray dog found the infant, clad in tattered clothing, in a poor neighbourhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital of Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.
The dog apparently found the baby Friday in the plastic bag in which the infant had been abandoned, said Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the shed where the animal was guarding its puppies. The seven-pound four-ounce infant was taken to the hospital for treatment on Saturday.
“She is doing well, responding to treatment, she is stable. ... She is on antibiotics,” Kenyatta National Hospital spokeswoman Hanna Gakuo told the Associated Press from the hospital, where health workers called the infant Angel.
