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Oksana Oleksandrivna Malaya (Ukrainian: Оксана Олександрівна Малая, born 4 November 1983), better known as Oxana Malaya, is a Ukrainian woman internationally known for her dog-imitating behavior. Malaya has been the subject of documentaries, interviews and tabloid headlines as a feral child "raised by dogs". [1] [2]
An early modern example of a feral child comes from Rudyard Kipling's 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book. His protagonist Mowgli is raised by wolves and becomes the ruler of the jungle. Peter Pan , created by J. M. Barrie in 1902, is a boy who fled to the magical Neverland and refused to grow up.
The story of Ivan Mishukov caught the attention of Australian writer Eva Hornung, whose novel Dog Boy (2009) shares many of the same elements of Ivan's story, including capture by leaving bait at a restaurant. Another author, Bobbie Pyron, also wrote a book about Ivan and his time on the streets with the dogs, called The Dogs of Winter. [8]
Fictional feral children, young individuals who have lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. The term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away.
The issue appears to be so prevalent that Click2Houston’s camera crew captured a feral dog attack while reporting on the story. In the footage, a feral dog can be seen biting the owners ...
Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...
Image credits: Todd Whiteaker #2 Benji. A group of neighbors teamed up to save a giant dog who was dumped by his family into the streets. Despite his huge size, the dog looked scared and was ...
Local view columnist Carole Gariepy writes about feral cats and what one Gardner woman did to keep their population in check. Local view: Controlling feral cat population – a labor of love for ...