Wild cats discovered caring for a baby boy in Argentina
Last updated 12/23/2008 8:54:06 AM
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He's just one-year-old and too young yet to realise his incredible story. But an infant has reportedly been found alive and well, being looked by wild cats in Argentina.
It's understood police in Misiones found the boy surrounded by eight felines. Doctors even think the animals huddled around the child at night to keep him warm. The boy is also thought to have eaten food collected by the animals.
A policewoman has told how she noticed a gang of cats sitting together and when she went for a closer look, she found him lying at the bottom of a gutter.
"There were all these cats on top of him licking him because he was really dirty. When I walked over they became really protective and spat at me," she's quoted as saying.
Unsurprisingly, the story is already drawing comparisons with Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and the youngster has been referred to as 'Mowgli', the fictional character who was reared by a pack of wolves in the tale.
The boy's father, who's apparently homeless, was traced and claimed he lost his son a few days earlier.