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| "You touch the boy, you die." |
Back in December of 2008, around the 20th to be exact, Policewoman Alicia Lorena Lindgvist discovered a one year old boy by a canal in Misiones, in Argentina, surrounded by eight wild cats.
Doctors, who we all know are experts in cat's habits, believe the cats would snuggle up with him during freezing nights. Nights which would otherwise have killed him.
The boy was also seen eating scraps foraged by the animals while they licked him.
Doctors, who we all know are experts in cat's habits, believe the cats would snuggle up with him during freezing nights. Nights which would otherwise have killed him.
The boy was also seen eating scraps foraged by the animals while they licked him.
(I'm not sure when this observation would have taken place. If it was before he was discovered, why was it not reported to the police, and if it was after, what where the police doing letting him eat cat scraps?)
"I was walking and noticed a gang of cats sitting very close together. It is unusual to see so many like that so I went for a closer look and that's where I saw him. The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him licking him because he was really dirty.
When I walked over they became really protective and spat at me. They were keeping the boy warm while he slept."
The officer, who noticed scraps of food near the boy, added: "The cats knew he was fragile and needed protecting."
Police later found the boy's father who was homeless. He said he had lost the boy several days ago while out collecting cardboard to sell. He told officers cats had always been protective of his son, which seems to alude to one or more strange back stories we haven't heard about yet.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Animal Welfare (which deals with feral cats and strays in Berkshire) had this to say about the incident: "They would have viewed the baby like a big hot water bottle. Cats will cuddle up to anything to keep warm, even dogs."
He continued: "In our experience of cat colonies when a mother has a litter, all the other cats will go and fetch food. The baby could have been feeding off the scraps they brought. Cats in Argentina stay in large packs to survive - much more than cats over here."
"I was walking and noticed a gang of cats sitting very close together. It is unusual to see so many like that so I went for a closer look and that's where I saw him. The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him licking him because he was really dirty.
When I walked over they became really protective and spat at me. They were keeping the boy warm while he slept."
The officer, who noticed scraps of food near the boy, added: "The cats knew he was fragile and needed protecting."
Police later found the boy's father who was homeless. He said he had lost the boy several days ago while out collecting cardboard to sell. He told officers cats had always been protective of his son, which seems to alude to one or more strange back stories we haven't heard about yet.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Animal Welfare (which deals with feral cats and strays in Berkshire) had this to say about the incident: "They would have viewed the baby like a big hot water bottle. Cats will cuddle up to anything to keep warm, even dogs."
He continued: "In our experience of cat colonies when a mother has a litter, all the other cats will go and fetch food. The baby could have been feeding off the scraps they brought. Cats in Argentina stay in large packs to survive - much more than cats over here."
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