CNN.COM poll question can a dog care for a baby?

[brettdale]

cnn.com is asking a real hard poll question today?. Can a dog care for a baby?

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. This is Bush polling about his new national health care plan?

[ComerPerro]

2. LOL

[notadmblnd]

20. More than likely...

it's his childcare plan for working mothers.

[LSdemocrat]

3. Ironically, the question is more insightful than the average cnn.com poll

[NYCGirl]

4. The strange thing is that the headline made me log onto CNN,

which I haven't done in months, to see what that question referred to.

And here's the article. Amazing!:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/05/09/dog.baby.ap/index.html

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A newborn baby abandoned in a Kenyan forest was saved by a stray dog who apparently carried her across a busy road and through a barbed wire fence to a shed where the infant was discovered nestled with a litter of puppies, witnesses said Monday.

The baby girl, named "Angel" by hospital workers, was clad in a tattered shirt and wrapped in a plastic bag when the dog found her Friday, according to Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the shed where the baby was discovered in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forest in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

"When the dog picked up the baby in a dirty bag, it came and dropped her behind the wooden building where the dog has its puppies," Mwalimu told The Associated Press Monday.

The 7-pound, 4-ounce infant was taken to a hospital and "is doing well, responding to treatment. She is stable ... she is on antibiotics," said Hannah Gakuo, spokeswoman of the Kenyatta National Hospital.

[TNOE]

6. Well why are they asking then

obviously the answer is apparently "yes".

[fob]

15. TNOE has summed it up nicely. Certainly Not News strikes again!

[doodadem]

11. This mama dog was probably thinking,

"I must pick up something for the puppies' dinner on the way home", instead of some major humane motive.

Sorry.

[Beaverhausen]

16. The baby didn't have a scratch on her

I don't think the dog planned to eat it.

[hlthe2b]

19. Sorry you are wrong... There are numerous documented accounts

of female dogs adopting across species and nuturing, even nursing. (Dogs with fawn, dogs with kittens, dogs with monkeys, dogs with human babies).

Humans are,after all, are just another mammal. Yet so many humans truly underestimate the intelligence and emotional capacity of other animals.

[DrDebug]

12. Dogs, wolves and many more have been known to do that

http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php

And there's a whole list of animals who have succesfully raised human babies:

Andrei Tolstyk dogs
Traian Caldarar dogs
Axel Rivas dogs
Ivan Mishukov dogs
Bello chimps
John Ssebunya monkeys
Andes boy goats
Saturday Mthiyane monkeys
Jhansi leopard-girl leopards
Robert monkeys
Baby Hospital monkeys
Kunu Masela dogs
Tissa monkeys
Shamdeo wolves
etc.

[doodadem]

21. You forgot Barbara Bush on that list!

Seriously, I'm a total animal lover (I have 16 of various species!), but I'm still thinking, hmmm....probably starving dog in third world country with herself and a bunch of puppies to feed...comes across helpless wiggling bite-sized creature that maybe smells like milk. The line from Men In Black comes to mind: "It's a long trip--I may need a snack!"

[Book Lover]

5. Is this to do with that dog in Africa?

Forgive me but I don't recall the exact country; an AP story ran this afternoon about a dog that found an abandoned newborn human, carried it back to her litter and cared for it for a few days before two children heard the baby crying and went to investigate.

[Maven]

7. Republican poll says: As long as the dog's not gay! n/t

[WindRavenX]

8. What the fuck is this?

:wtf:

[sweetheart]

9. of course

Doggies are tactile, great mothers, in touch with the earth.

[redwitch]

10. sure

I've read Good Dog Carl. Seriously though, seems like yet another case of other species superiority to humans.

[IChing]

13. dog in question

http://us.news3.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/251,http%3A%2F%2Fus.news2.yimg.com%2Fus.yimg.com%2Fp%2Fcpress%2F20050509%2Fcapt.k050921au.jpg?v=1




Felix Omondi, 11, with an unnamed dog in a compound on the outskirts of Nairobi Monday. The nursing dog foraging for food retrieved an abandoned baby girl in a forest and carried the infant to her litter of puppies, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

[Sabriel]

14. I'm waiting for: "Can a chimp run a country?"

I think I'll vote NO on that one.

[Malva Zebrina]

17. I read this amusing story on Ariana Huffington's blog

My first thought was that the dog was bringing home food for herself.

Terrible thought I know, but this mother's first intuition or inbred impulse is to feed her babies for their survival, and she must feed herself to provide milk to her babies. I don't think the overiding impulse is to rescue human abandoned babies.

The other story here is the abandonment of this unwanted baby, and that is indeed sad.

[Wilber_Stool]

18. Only in Florida.........n/t