Heartwarming pictures show an abandoned newborn who was ‘kept alive’ when a litter of stray puppies snuggled up to keep her warm.
Last month, a newborn baby was ᴀʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴᴇᴅ in an isolated area in Chhattisgarh for the night. However, she wasn’t alone: the locals found her with a mother dog and her puppies, who were seemingly keeping the baby warm overnight by laying beside her.
According to reports, the baby was found by an stray dog, which cuddled up to her with its puppies all night in the Chattisgarh province of India.
He said: ’At 11 in the morning, we saw that there is a newborn baby girl who was crying and lying alongside puppies in our village.
‘We panicked and informed the health department before the newborn was taken to the hospital for further checkup.’
“It’s possibly the warmth from puppies and their mother itself who had kept this newborn alive,” one local said.
Villagers found the baby after hearing her cry, alongside a litter of puppies. The child was found without any injuries and the villagers believed that the mother dog guarded the human child along with her puppies.
Soon, the villagers contacted the local police, who rushed to the spot to provide assistance and save the child. Luckily, the baby was well, despite being left out in the severe cold.
Officers arrived on the scene to handle the case, and the newborn, now named Akanksha, was taken to the hospital and examined by doctors. The police are searching for the family of the newborn and investigating the matter. A ᴄʀɪᴍɪɴᴀʟ investigation is now ongoing to find the infant’s ɴᴇɢʟᴇᴄᴛғᴜʟ parents.
One local, Premnath, said it was a ‘miracle’ the baby had survived the night because stray dogs can be scared.
They said: “They are not parents, they are (ᴄʀɪᴍɪɴᴀʟs). It is a miracle only to find a newborn baby surviving when stray dogs are lurking every now and then at the (ᴅᴇᴀᴅ) of the night”.