Frantic Dog Won’t Leave Plastic Bag Alone, Then Neighbor Realizes Something Is Terribly Wrong

A dog in Argentina is being hailed as a hero after making the heart-breaking discovery of a one-month-old baby boy inside a plastic bag near the capital city of Buenos Aires earlier this month.

On June 6, a neighbor spotted Orejón – a well-known and much-beloved neighborhood dog – sniffing intently at a large plastic bag that had been discarded along a street in Vicente López.


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“He was smelling and barking at a bag. I approached and saw that there was something strange,” the neighbor recalled.

You can only imagine everyone’s horror to discover the discarded bag contained a sleeping infant, whose age at the time was estimated at 28 days.


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Temperatures were particularly cold that night, and authorities say the baby could very well have died if not for Orejón’s persistence.

The baby boy was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors determined the already malnourished and anemic infant was now suffering from hypothermia.


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But a city health officials says he’s now “in perfect health” and has since been baptized Mateo. Though footage from a surveillance camera has produced no leads so far, officials are continuing their search for his parents.


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Little Orejón has a history of coming to the rescue when he senses humans are in danger. Two months ago, he alerted his owner’s neighbors when their house caught fire.


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