• Rescued 8-year-old Thai boy raised among dogs only communicates bybarking

    From Tilde@invalide@invalid.invalid to sci.lang on Fri Jul 4 22:53:10 2025
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    Not a case of a feral child but...

    https://gulfnews.com/world/offbeat/rescued-8-year-old-thai-boy-raised-among-dogs-only-communicates-by-barking-1.500185511

    An eight-year-old boy from Thailand’s Laplae
    district has been rescued from a drug-ridden home
    where he was raised in near-total isolation and
    learned to communicate only by barking.

    Authorities found the boy living in squalor,
    surrounded by six dogs, after a school principal
    and local activists raised the alarm, according
    to a report in Thaiger.

    The child, referred to as “Boy A” for legal
    reasons, had not attended school for over two
    years. His mother, a drug addict, reportedly left
    him alone for hours each day in a dilapidated
    wooden house while she roamed the neighbourhood
    begging for food.

    With no friends, no adult supervision, and only
    the dogs for company, the boy began mimicking
    their behaviour — communicating by barking
    instead of speaking.

    “He didn’t speak, he just barked,” said Pawina
    Hongsakul, head of the Pawina Hongsakul Foundation
    for Children and Women, which led the rescue
    operation on June 30.
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