6/27: Dog pack boy

Undertoad · 06-27-2001, 09:43 AM

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Well, here's the total opposite of yesterday's image. You may have heard about this one, because it's incredible.

This lad is Chilean. He's shown standing outside a welfare office. He was abandoned by his family and survived for years RAISED BY A PACK OF STRAY DOGS.

He scavenged for food with them and MAY EVEN HAVE BEEN SUCKLED BY THEM.

Impossible? No, I remembered a column in the Straight Dope about this, so I went to the Straight Dope web site to try their search engine on it. Sure enough, this column talks about "feral children".

In short? There have been about 50 documented cases of children raised in the wild by wild animals. But children raised without human contact seem to be severely stunted in development and remain so all their lives.

So Amy's mom is taking a much better approach to child-rearing.

06-27-2001, 09:43 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	6/27: Dog pack boy [IMG]pictures/dogpackboy.jpg[/IMG] Well, here's the total opposite of yesterday's image. You may have heard about this one, because it's incredible. This lad is Chilean. He's shown standing outside a welfare office. He was abandoned by his family and survived for years RAISED BY A PACK OF STRAY DOGS. He scavenged for food with them and MAY EVEN HAVE BEEN SUCKLED BY THEM. Impossible? No, I remembered a column in the Straight Dope about this, so I went to the Straight Dope web site to try their search engine on it. Sure enough, this column talks about "feral children". In short? There have been about 50 documented cases of children raised in the wild by wild animals. But children raised without human contact seem to be severely stunted in development and remain so all their lives. So Amy's mom is taking a much better approach to child-rearing.

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