Dog Rescues Human Baby

Posted by Joy Butler Aug 23, 2008

Humans take in homeless dogs and rescue abandoned dogs all the time. But here’s a twist. The news reported today that a dog, named China, near Buenos Aires rescued a newborn human baby, bringing the abandoned infant from a barren lot to join her own family of puppies in the Argentina winter.

It’s not often a dog has the opportunity to rescue a human so when it happens you have to wonder what extent of compassion the average dog has. One news article called it instinct but I don’t buy that for a split second. Any reasonable dog owner can attest that dogs experience emotions such as joy, sadness, and fear similar to humans. Something deep inside China tugged her heart strings and urged her to protect that helpless baby. Just how different was that emotion from the one that urges humans to take in a homeless puppy who wanders into their yard? Let’s not call it instinct. Let’s drop the selfishness that says our feelings are somehow better than this soft hearted mother dog’s feelings. Let’s give China the credit she is due. After all, she saved a baby’s life, for goodness sake!