Dog saved abandoned human baby

South American dog, this one from Argentina, was credited not with saving a dog but with saving a human baby. The video of that dog story can be seen here. A young Argentinian teenager gave birth to the premature baby boy in a shantytown, panicked, and left the baby in a field of rubbish and wooden crates. La China, a dog who is a mother in every sense of the word, discovered the abandoned baby. The dog saved the newborn by carrying it 50 meters and placing it among her own litter of pups.

A villager learned that the dog saved a newborn when he heard the baby's cries and investigated. The baby had little chance of survival had La China's mothering instincts not kicked in, according to officials at the hospital where the baby was later brought. In the field where La China the dog saved the newborn, the temperature was 3 degrees centigrade.

To many dog owners, the dog saved newborn news does not come as a surprise. There have been stories of heroic dogs saving their human friends as long as there have been dogs and humans.