Dog Saves Abandoned Baby Girl In Argentina

A dog in Argentina saved a newborn girl’s life after she was abandoned by her 14-year-old mother. Everyone together now: Awwww! The dog, upon finding the little poor little womb hobbit all wiggley and crying in a field, carried her to where her own puppies were huddled. God, we want that image on a T-shirt, except the dog and the baby and the puppies are all flying on a unicorn through a dreamcatcher:

A resident of a rural area outside La Plata called police late Wednesday night to say that he had heard the baby crying in a field behind his house.

The man went outside and found the infant lying beside the dog and its six newborn puppies, said Daniel Salcedo, chief of police of the Province of Buenos Aires.

The temperature was a chilly 37 degrees, Salcedo said.

“She took it like a puppy and rescued it,” Salcedo said. “The doctors told us if she hadn’t done this, he would have died.

“The dog is a hero to us.”

The baby’s mother was located by a neighbor and driven to a local hospital to identify the baby as hers. Besides a few bruises and the fact that she was bleeding from the mouth (Ugh… that image is not being included on the T-shirt), the baby is a-ok. Magical animals FTW!

Dog protected abandoned newborn, doctors say [CNN]