Three-legged dog finds one-armed infant
A Florida family’s three-legged pit bull-Lab mix returned from playing in a wooded area near their home Monday with an object in his mouth that turned out to be the corpse of a one-armed infant.
Tonya and Henry McGill, of Milton, say they noticed their dog Coco digging. As Tonya went over to see what Coco had found, the dog — who had her left front leg amputated when she was 10 months old — came back out of the woods and “kind of laid the body at my wife’s feet,” Henry McGill said. “At first she didn’t know what it was because it had dirt on it and everything.”
Once the couple realized it was a human baby, Henry McGill, who had been power-washing the house, immediately dialed 911. He said the baby was naked and missing its left arm.
Santa Rosa County Investigators combed the wooded area where the body was found, WKRG-TV reported. An autopsy has been conducted but the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office is not releasing details at this time.
Posted by jwoestendiek January 2nd, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: amputated, arm, baby, buried, coco, crime, digging, dog, florida, infant, lab, labrador, milton, missing, mix, naked, one arm, one-armed, pit bull, police, three-legged
Comment from Anne-n-Spencer
Time January 2, 2009 at 10:01 pm
What’s sadly ironic here is that a mother dog would die rather than abandon her babies. I feel certain Coco knew that something was very wrong, and so she brought what she had found to her humans.