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In November 2015, social media around the globe were awash in photographs of a dog seemingly carrying a newborn child (with umbilical cord still attached) in its mouth, with accompanying text proclaiming that the canine had found the child abandoned on the street and had carried it to safety: Verifying the veracity of these images has proved difficult, as the accompanying text typically makes no mention of details such as time and place. (Some iterations of the message do mention location but attribute the story to multiple, widely varying parts of the world.) Similar reports regarding dog rescues of abandoned children have certainly appeared in the news media over the years (sometimes in tandem by photographs that have no actual connection to the story being reported), but none of them appears related to this iteration. The most common version of this item holds that it occurred somewhere in or around Saudi Arabia, as reported in the Saudi publication Sada: At this point we don't yet know whether these photographs are authentic (rather than capturing something that was staged), whether the backstory attributed to them (about a dog's finding and rescuing an abandoned newborn) is accurate, or the time and place of their setting.
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