Photos:Abandoned child found Breastfeeding from Neighbour's Dog

 A 2-year-old malnourished boy was rescued by police last week Thursday after Lory Escudero saw him being breastfed by her pregnant dog, Reina, at a car mechanic’s workshop.The two-year-old boy was taken into protective care after she neighbour found him feeding on milk from the teat of her pregnant dog in Chile.

Neighbour Lory Escudero reported the case to the police after she witnessed the boy suckling on her pregnant dog.

"We have our dog who is there and she's pregnant. The hungry boy suckled on the dogs teats for milk, said Escudero.

"Everyone that is here, we're all parents and if you saw what we saw from my position as a woman, as a mother, it was terrible," she added.

Officer Diego Gajardo, who arrived at the scene, said the boy appeared abandoned.

"He was found in an obvious state of abandonment because of his exposed torso and he was sucking on the breast milk of a dog," he said.

The case has caused popular outrage in Chile, with welfare officials stepping in to take custody of the child.

Escudero told state television the boy’s mother was “dead drunk,” El Nuevo Herald reports.

Police Capt. Diego Gajardo told the Associated Press the boy’s mother showed up intoxicated at the hospital, but was not arrested because the child was not physically harmed.

To determine who gets custody of the little boy, a family court hearing is scheduled for Sept. 22.

“This is a story that gives us a lot of embarrassment,” Marcela Labraña, director of the National Service for Minors, told El Nuevo Herald. “We do not know for sure whether [being nursed by a dog] saved his life.”

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