Humans and Animals: A Special Bond

Kenyans eager to adopt baby found with puppies

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Offers to adopt a newborn girl found among a litter of puppies after being abandoned are pouring in to the Kenyan hospital where she is being treated, and the stray dog credited with her rescue has a home and a name -- "Mkombozi" or "Savior."

Many people may say that animals have no sense of feeling or any of the sort, and it's all instinct. But there are many scenarios such as the one above that makes me wonder. Did the mixed breed dog who doesn't have an owner really do what she did out of instinct? Perhaps, as she is currently in the process of caring for her own. But how would the dog know that the baby left behind that shack was in distress? I know some domestic animals that go berserk when a baby cries. But this dog, whose four walls and roof are of trees and the sky, decides to take a crying baby and adopt it as her own. A human baby, an offspring of the human race that is known to abuse and mistreat the animals, is taken in by a dog.