Siberian boy, 7, raised by dogs

[indigobusiness]

Siberian boy, 7, raised by dogs after parents abandoned him
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
04 August 2004


A Mowgli-like wild boy who appears to have been raised by a dog since he was three months old has been discovered living in a remote part of Siberia seven years after he was abandoned by his parents.

Andrei Tolstyk, now seven, was found by social workers who wondered why the boy had not enrolled at his local school in the beautiful Siberian region of Altai.

Deprived of human contact for so long, Andrei could not talk and had adopted many dog-like traits including walking on all fours, biting people, sniffing his food before he ate it and general feral behaviour.

Andrei, like Rudyard Kipling's fictional Mowgli in The Jungle Book, had spent almost his entire youth in the company of animals. According to the local press, his very existence had been forgotten. His mother left home when he was just three months old, entrusting Andrei's care to his alcoholic, invalid father who also appears to have abandoned the boy soon afterwards and drifted away.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=547689

[shadu]

1. I find it very very hard to believe this

what you think?

[gristy]

2. Must be Southern Siberia

:D

[indigobusiness]

6. Even S Siberia ia cold as hell.

This is a tough one to figure, for many reasons. At least it isn't a Pravda story.

[rocktivity]

3. I saw a TV program about feral children

One of them was the other Russian child the article mentioned. Yes, they do exist. They can learn human behavior, but they don't learn how to talk because their brains are too underdeveloped.

:headbang:
rocknation

[indigobusiness]

5. This is spposed to be well documented, but

feral children stories always seem to get shot down.

[aquart]

4. I was raised by an airedale.

Well, just the early years. She sat on one of her puppies and it died. That same afternoon they brought me home from the hospital. Chippie concluded her puppy had revived and adopted me.