Gone to the dogs: the girl who ran with the pack

Elizabeth Grice (theage.com.au)
July 19, 2006

SHE bounds along on all fours through long grass, panting with her tongue hanging out. When she reaches the tap she paws at the ground, drinks noisily with her jaws wide open and lets the water cascade over her head.

Up to this point, you think the young woman could be acting

A shameful five years later, a neighbour reported a child living with animals. When she was found, at the age of eight in 1991, Oxana could hardly speak and ran around on all fours barking.

Though she must have seen humans at a distance, and seems occasionally to have entered the family house like a stray, they were no longer her species.

Judging from the complete lack of documentation about her physical and psychological state when found, the authorities were not keen to record her case

Yuk

Think how canines feed their young.