Girl, 3, raised by dogs after her alcoholic mother neglected her.

Cole Gamble — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Social workers in Russia discovered a three-year-old girl in her mother's house, naked and walking on all fours, gnawing bones with the dogs that she clung to for warmth.

The girl, known as Madina, knows only two words: yes and no. Her mother Anna, 23, would frequently disappear of just be too drunk to care for the child. Normally, when Anna ate dinner at the table, Madina ate scraps off the floor with the dogs.

Because of her inability to relate to other children, Madina is an outcast where she lives, only capable of relating to her dog companions. One social worker commented that little Madina has know no other love than that of her mother’s dog.

When police arrived to take the child into care, Anna reportedly claimed: 'I do look after my daughter.'

Despite a life entirely spent in the shadow of neglect, medics say Madina is mentally and physically healthy.

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Cole Gamble — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:20:00 GMT

Tarzan was raised by monkeys. Ryan Seacrest was raised by a family of mole rats that lived under a Banana Republic. Now here is a story about a boy raised by birds.Did they boy wander into the forest and lose his family? Did a family of macaws then take him under their wings (puntastic)? No. The boy lived at home with his mom who simply didn’t talk to her boy and surrounded him with birds.

From Pravda:(The) boy lived with his mother in a 2-room apartment full of cages with feed and droppings. She had her own domestic birds and fed wild ones. A woman neither beat him nor left him without food. She just never talked to him. It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught him birds’ language.“When you start talking to him, he chirps”, - says Galina Volskaya, a social worker of Kirovskiy region, Volgograd. A boy doesn’t understand human language at all. He just chirps and when realizing that he is not understood, starts to wave hands in the way birds winnow wings.The boy has been diagnosed with what is called Mowgli Syndrome, named after the child character in The Jungle Book. Photo: www.flikr.com

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