Argentinian Dog Better Mother Than Some Humans – Such As Say, Casey Anthony
The above video of stray dog China, describes how the nursing dog saved the life of an abandoned newborn baby boy’s 14-year old mother left him to die in the harsh elements. My first thought when I saw this story was how sad a world we live in when a human leaves a helpless infant to die, but a wild animal does what comes natural and tries to nurture it like its own. Here’s the report from CNN:
A resident of a rural area outside La Plata called police late Wednesday night to say that he had heard the baby crying in a field behind his house.
The man went outside and found the infant lying beside the dog and its six newborn puppies, said Daniel Salcedo, chief of police of the Province of Buenos Aires.
The temperature was a chilly 37 degrees, Salcedo said.
The dog had apparently carried the baby 50 meters from where his mother had abandoned him to where the puppies were huddled, police said.
“She took it like a puppy and rescued it,” Salcedo said. “The doctors told us if she hadn’t done this, he would have died.
“The dog is a hero to us.”
Dr. Egidio Melia, director of the Melchor Romero Hospital in La Plata, said police showed up at the hospital at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday with the baby, who doctors say was only a few hours old.
Though the infant had superficial scratches and bruises and was bleeding from his mouth, he was in good shape, Melia said.
Naturally, I thought of Casey Anthony, the 22-year old Florida mother of missing 3-year old Caylee Anthony who has not been seen since mid June. Rather than do what we consider instinctive of mothers, human or otherwise, to protect and nurture their children, Casey allowed her child to “disappear” without a trace and has led the authorities and concerned citizens on a wild goose chase ever since being turned over to the authorities by her own family.
Now that Casey’s out on bail and free to bask in the glory of all the attention she so desperately and pathetically needed, we are no closer to knowing where little Caylee is, or whether she is even alive. So far, all circumstantial evidence points to the little girl have passed away at some point, and truth be told, we may NEVER know what happened to Caylee. Perhaps Casey is more devious than initially perceived. Turns out she conned her great-grandmother out of money used for his nursing home care and Casey mother Cindy, the ultimate enabler, used her own 401k to bail her daughter out. More on these developments here.
But we do know that a little baby boy in Argentina, abandoned by a member of the supposed “superior” species of human, was saved by a stray dog who saw a need and filled it.
Funny how a female dog is called a bitch, when clearly China is a hero, and Casey Anthony is….well something else altogether.
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Psychologists say that we are the only species that must be ‘taught’ to be ‘human’. All other species act instinctively. This is borne out by infamous research on ‘wild children’ — children raised by wolves, etc. — if they are not brought back into human society before the age of five they cannot, for example, be taught human speech. Reacclimating them to human society in general is an enormously difficult task. So I am hardly surprised that China the dog acted more ‘humanely’ than a frightened 14-year old.
I agree wholeheartedly that China’s rescue stands in stark comparison to Casey Anthony’s callous disregard for the whereabouts and well-being of her daughter Caylee. However, I would suggest a modicum of understanding for a fourteen-year old child. In most heavily Catholic countries like Argentina, the stigma of out-of-wedlock birth is still an incredibly heavy one. Even in the U.S., in our enlightened age were we shrug our shoulders at couples raising children outside marriage, how many countless stories have we heard of babies being abandoned in the toilet at prom, etc.? This speaks more to the hormone-induced, irrational and intense fear experienced by a woman or young girl left pregnant with little education or resources to help her handle the situation appropriately. Obviously the numerous state ’safe haven’ laws haven’t worked — numbers of abandoned babies left in ‘unsafe’ locations continue to hold steady, rather than decrease as promised by these laws. So it’s not the fear of criminalization or prosecution that drives women/girls to abandon children. It’s the fear of society’s/religion’s retribution. If you doubt me, look at Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, operational up until 1996.
And we don’t know what the circumstances of the young Argentinian girl’s pregnancy were — was she raped, perhaps incenstuously (quite common)? Was she as educated about her own body and sex as the average 14-year old American girl? I highly doubt it. She may not have even known what was happening to her when she gave birth (perhaps didn’t even know she was pregnant).
Casey Anthony is an aberration; a truth sociopath and clearly only motivated by her own interests. I seriously doubt the young Argentinian mother is. I’d be cautious with your judgment and the parallels you draw.
Comment by Mari Steed — August 25, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Duly noted Mari, I agree. I just can’t conceive in my wildest dreams of leaving a child under any circumstances, even at age 14 — and I was not what you call motherly until I had kids of my own. Some things are just inherently wrong and against my basic value system. And leaving a helpless and defenseless child to suffer in the elements is one of them.
Casey Anthony is just beyond comprehension.
Comment by D — August 25, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
You’re my hero.
Comment by Watching from New York — August 25, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
What about the fathers? Why are mothers always to blame for abandonment, abuse? I’m a mother and a grandmother, yet I know that women are left solely to blame in these instances. No one ever says, “How can a father abandon his baby?” Right. Nope, he cannot give birth (thankfully for him). Think about it. A man is 50% responsible for his child, yet he walks away and all blame is directed at the mother–not a word intended for the father. If a child is not wanted in the womb, it will not be wanted (nor loved, nor cherished) after the womb. For that, one cannot blame the bearer of the egg. Either start holding dead-beat dads responsible or stop levying all blame against mothers. Mothers are simply child-bearers. That title does not mean they love the child, nor should it. Measures need to be taken to give such mothers a drop-off spot so that no other tiny baby is left to suffer/die.
I was an adoptee. No arguments can be levied against me that I cannot defend. I feel for Casey even though I love her daughter, Caylee, a child I’ve never even met.
Trish
Comment by Trish Lindsey Jaggers — August 25, 2008 @ 11:29 pm
#4: The only part Caylee’s father has played in her life was her conception.
Casey says he died in a car accident. However, the family of that young man says there’s no way he could have been the father. Like everything else Casey has said, you don’t know if it is true or a lie.
But Caylee has not had a father figure in her life other than her grandfather. So in this case, it is acceptable to look at the behavior of the mother only.
In the case of the 14 y/o who abandonded the baby, it is my guess that she got pregnant and never saw the father again, or the father didn’t want to have anything to do with her. In cases like that, there is no paternal involvement, so there is no father to point fingers at…only the mother.
Comment by k — August 26, 2008 @ 12:23 am
Casey stole money from everyone {methinks for drugs}..did she “sell” Caylee for drugs OR is she being held hostage??….Casey knows where her daughter is…the reward money should be sufficient to get her back…OR was Casey “stoned/drunk etc”& accidentally/on purpose killed this beautiful little girl???
Cindy & George are probably feeling guilty that they allowed Casey to steal & turned a “blind eye” because their daughter could do no wrong…but their TV “displays” worry me…methinks that something is fishy!!! {I love my daughter who gave birth to a full term stillborn when she was 37 {1st baby}..I am blessed that one day after her 39th birthday she presented us with Luke {by C/Section}…he is now just over 4 months old {and teething}…I would be devastated if I didn’t see him several times per week..what were Cindy & George thinking when they didn’t see Caylee for over a month????
If any of my opions turn out to be true then Casey Anthony surpasses Drew Peterson as the MOST DESPICABLE PERSON IN AMERICA!!!
Please don’t “botch” this investigation…we really need this little girl to be found alive.
Comment by Jill from Western Australia — August 26, 2008 @ 2:41 am
#5 – I was a single mother and understand the point of view that #4 has. Yes I was involved in the creation of my children. The child in question was conceived out of love that went bad. The night I was going to tell my ex that I was pregnant he left me for my best friend. He had no involvement with my daughter until last summer. But he was still involved in her creation. He had to pay child support. Therefore dead beat dads or those that are not present in their childrens live should be held accountable for their children. Especially if hey find beautiful little Caylee is deceased. We know Casey’s mother told her friends that she wa a sociopath. If the father is still alive I’m sure he would have some inkling of Casey suffering from a mental illness, so he should be held accountable for abandoning a mother with a child that she was incapable of caring for.
Comment by V — August 26, 2008 @ 11:51 am
The only facts that have been proven in the case of Casey Anthony are that her 3 year old is not in her custody and that Casey is a habitual liar. I pray Caylee is alive and well and cherished by whomever has her. There are so many questions about the rest of Casey Anthony’s past 3 years… If the young man who died in the car accident was the childs father wouldn’t Casey have filed for social security benefits to help support her child? How was this 22 year old supporting herself and her child financially with no means of income? In 3 years no one in the family ever had to drop Caylee off at the babysitters? Cindy claims in a reported post that Casey is a sociopath … would that not raise concern for her caring for a 3 year old child!? Did the family ever seek professional help for her?
Now we hear that Casey wanted to give her child up for adoption. The decidion to place a child for adoption does NOT automatically indicate that the child was neither loved nor wanted.. sometimes it may… but please respect that in some cases it is the most heartwrenching and loving decision a parent can make to admit that they are not the person who should raise the child they brought into this world. I have 3 wonderful children and if I were not able to take care of them I would pray for the strength to love them enough to think of their well being above my own ego and to allow them to be cared for and raised by someone else. There should be no shame in placing a child for adoption, there are families waiting to love and care for a child as their own precious gift from God delivered by a birth parent.It sounds as though Casey might have in a moment of clarity realized that she was not ready to be a mother and that the ego of her mother interfered with that decision.
To Mr Padilla… shame on you for using this situation as a means of publicity for your TV show. I have never watched your show or even heard of it but now will be sure to avoid any support for your show. The reason you are so confident that you can locate Caylee is that regardless of the outcome of this situation you will now have what you seek .. photo ops and publicity. Do you regularly make such a public showing of your support in posting bonds as to show up in person and make TV appearances? While you are there in Florida why not check out the missing childrens website and locate the other 3 children under the age of 3 who are listed as missing? Better yet change your show from bounty hunter to missing kid hunter and start searching for the other 19 children under the age of 3 who have gone missing in the past year! Not interested… well then I guess we know why you are so involved in this case then … you are just as selfishly focused on attention as Casey Anthony.
Comment by Deb — August 26, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
#7: I think I was misunderstood.
It wouldn’t be right for people to look at the case of Casey Anthony and ask, “Why blame the mother? Where was the father? Why not blame him too? Why not hold him accountable?” By all accounts Caylee’s father was not in her life, for whatever reason (Casey says he is dead, who knows if it is true), so reasonably one must look at the mother. If the father has never been in Caylee’s life (assuming he is alive) we can’t reasonably think he was responsible for her disappearance.
By that I do NOT mean that we should not hold deadbeat dads accountable for the support of their children. I just mean that we can’t hold the father of Caylee accountable for her disappearance if he was not involved in her life in any way.
Same for the little Argentinian baby. Yes, the father should be found and made to shoulder his part of the blame in not being supportive…if that is indeed the case. Perhaps he was and the mother has mental problems or just didn’t want his help. Perhaps he didn’t know what was going to happen. But as far as we know, it was the mother who physically placed the child in the field.
Just because a child has a father who isn’t around doesn’t necessarily make him a deadbeat dad. Some men who are perceived as such actually try very hard to be involved but are prevented from doing so. And then again, some are just jerks.
Comment by k — August 26, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
I hope someone has given this beautiful pooch a home. She certainly deserves it.
Comment by Rachel — August 26, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
Below is a description of a Narcissistic personality disorder – if that doesnt fit Casey Anthony I dont know what does:
He or she has a grandiose sense of self-importance (exaggerates accomplishments and demands to be considered superior without real evidence of achievement).
He or she lives in a dream world of exceptional success, power, beauty, genius, or “perfect” love.
He or she thinks of him- or herself as “special” or privileged, and that he or she can only be understood by other special or high-status people.
He or she demands excessive amounts of praise or admiration from others.
He or she feels entitled to automatic deference, compliance, or favorable treatment from others.
He or she is exploitative towards others and takes advantage of them.
He or she lacks empathy and does not recognize or identify with others’ feelings.
He or she is frequently envious of others or thinks that they are envious of him or her.
He or she “has an attitude” or frequently acts in haughty or arrogant ways.
Comment by Elaine — August 27, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
Well, the tests came back that shows there was a decomposing body in the trunk of the car http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-caylee-marie-anthony-body-082708,0,134604.story
That poor child….
Comment by delilah — August 27, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
Aww. That dog is my hero. I totally teared up at work reading this.
And I agree with Rachel, I hope that dog gets a new home that welcomes all the puppies and I hope China gets the best bones on the market. Or whatever a dog looks forward to, I dunno.
I also hope that baby finds a good NEW home, too. And if they could all live together, I would probably tear up yet again.
Comment by Brooke — August 27, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
I am sooooo tired of Cindy Anthony cussing the public out saying get off our asses and look for her granddaughter! or you all aren’t doing a damn thing to find my granddaughter!
Please Cindy stop! You look rediculous and btw, get off your ass and look for her instead of being in denial and telling everybody else too! She makes me not want to do nothing for her and her crazy ass lying family!
Comment by Indiana — August 29, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
I HAVE A THREE YEAR OLD NIECE. I KNOW FROM WATCHING HER GROW THAT IF SOMETHING HAPPEND TO HER AT THE HANDS OF HER MOTHER AND KNOW IT I WOULDNOT EVEN THINK ABOUT TURNING HER IN .
Comment by nancyhaft — December 18, 2008 @ 12:44 pm