One-year old boy kept alive by cats!

Remember the story of ‘The Jungle Book.’ There was a little boy called Mowgli who was raised in the Indian jungle by a pack of wolves. Well, here is a story of a one year old boy raised in the streets by a colony of wild cats in Misiones, Argentina.

A police-woman, Alicia Lorena Lindgvist discovered a child by a canal in the Christ King district of the city. She said she was walking when she noticed a gang of cats sitting very close to each other. As it was kind of unusual to see to so many cats sitting like that so she went for a closer look and was shocked to see a little boy lying in the bottom of the gutter.

While the boy was sleeping peacefully around 8 cats were on top on him quite busy licking his body because he was very dirty. She said, “When I walked over they became really protective and spat at me. They were keeping the boy warm while he slept.” The officer also noticed scraps of food near the boy and it was assumed that the boy was probably feeding on those scraps.

The police also found the father of the boy who was homeless and said that he lost his boy several days ago. He also told the police that the cats have always been protective of his son. According to doctors, the cats snuggled up with the boy to keep him warm in the freezing nights which he would not have survived otherwise.

Nobody knows exactly how many days the boy survived on the scraps of food that the cats brought for him and slept cuddled among the cats in freezing cold nights. But the way the father of the boy admitted that his son was lost for several days and that the cats have always been protective of his sons, it shows that the father was in habit of leaving his little boy on his own quite a many times.