Toad Tales

Two Tales today.  First a heart-warming tale about 

Mkombozi, the dog that rescued a baby

Back in 2005, when Mkombozi (she received her name later and is called Muk for short) heard a human baby crying in a garbage dump, she recognized the sound and knew right away that it was a baby.  The mom of the family that took care of Muk had had several babies, and that’s what they sounded like. Muk sniffed around and found the baby wrapped in some old clothes.  She picked up the ties of the bundle in her mouth, and headed back, with the baby, across the busy Ngong Road, in Nairobi, Kenya.  Weaving her way through the fast-moving traffic, miraculously, she arrived at the other side.  Later a neighbor recalled watching her carrying the bundle and wondering what she could possibly have found. Muk went back to the house where her family lived, and set the bundle down gently at the feet of the children playing in front of the house. The children called their mom, who picked up the newborn, and called the police.

Click on to the story to read the rest of the story.  I first saw in on a Facebook post.  As usual on Facebook I was  a sceptic but I did a little digging and found that it was true and better than just the Facebook story.  

And another of my heroes shared this Tyson always has something of interest.