Hero dog saves buried baby in northeastern Thailand

An attentive dog in northeastern Thailand is being hailed as a hero after finding and saving an infant allegedly buried in a field by his teenage mother, police said Saturday. The teenage mother was charged with attempted murder and abandonment of children.

The baby boy is healthy and is recovering at a hospital.

The newborn was lying under a layer of dirt near a farm in the Chumpuang district of Nakhon Ratchasima province but was found the same day by a curious canine named Ping Pong. The dog dug around the area and began barking, alerting his owner a cattle herder, who went to the site. Continue to Read