Feral Children
The Wild Children
Child: Oxana Malaya
The definition of the word feral children is undomesticated children. It has been a proven case that young children cannot survive on their own in the wild they are merely adopted by animals that choose to love them and want to help the children and teach them their way of life. An animal can sense when they’re in danger but when these children pose no threat all they want is devotion, love, protection they didn’t receive from the parents or guardians that abounded them.
Facts known about the child:
Oxana Malaya lived in Russia, Ukraine in an old village farm at Blagoveshchensk. For six years Oxana lived with the family’s dog in the kennel. Oxana Malaya was born in 1983. She weighed 5 pounds and 11 ounces. She had no disabilities nor psychically, mentally and emotionally problems.
Her parents were drinking alcohol one night and left their three year old daughter outside. Looking for warmth and comfort the child crawled to the dog’s kennel. When the dogs braked. She would repeat what they did. The dogs were like a mother to the child; sharing food and raising the child as one of its own. Surviving on raw meat and scraps.
A neighbour found Oxana at the age of eight in 1991 but it was too late, she already started mimicking the dog’s behaviour and how they lived. Oxana Malaya could bark and run on all fours because her muscles and body grew into that kind of position. Oxana learned how to understand what the dogs were communicating to her. She started copying the dogs; that’s how she learnt to survive the everyday life of a dog.
The dogs used to attack anyone who dared to take Oxana Malaya away from them because they had a special connection/bond that couldn’t be broken. The way they got Oxana away from the dogs was to distract the dogs by food.
How the child was affected by the upbringing:
Oxana didn’t feel the need to talk because she only socialised with dogs. Without her parents guiding her.
Child: Oxana Malaya
The definition of the word feral children is undomesticated children. It has been a proven case that young children cannot survive on their own in the wild they are merely adopted by animals that choose to love them and want to help the children and teach them their way of life. An animal can sense when they’re in danger but when these children pose no threat all they want is devotion, love, protection they didn’t receive from the parents or guardians that abounded them.
Facts known about the child:
Oxana Malaya lived in Russia, Ukraine in an old village farm at Blagoveshchensk. For six years Oxana lived with the family’s dog in the kennel. Oxana Malaya was born in 1983. She weighed 5 pounds and 11 ounces. She had no disabilities nor psychically, mentally and emotionally problems.
Her parents were drinking alcohol one night and left their three year old daughter outside. Looking for warmth and comfort the child crawled to the dog’s kennel. When the dogs braked. She would repeat what they did. The dogs were like a mother to the child; sharing food and raising the child as one of its own. Surviving on raw meat and scraps.
A neighbour found Oxana at the age of eight in 1991 but it was too late, she already started mimicking the dog’s behaviour and how they lived. Oxana Malaya could bark and run on all fours because her muscles and body grew into that kind of position. Oxana learned how to understand what the dogs were communicating to her. She started copying the dogs; that’s how she learnt to survive the everyday life of a dog.
The dogs used to attack anyone who dared to take Oxana Malaya away from them because they had a special connection/bond that couldn’t be broken. The way they got Oxana away from the dogs was to distract the dogs by food.
How the child was affected by the upbringing:
Oxana didn’t feel the need to talk because she only socialised with dogs. Without her parents guiding her.
References: 8 July 2012 Raised by dog: Tale of a feral child Oxana Malaya Retrieved 1st Monday April 2013, from 24 Web site: http://www.news24online.com/raised-by-dogs-tale-of-a-feral-child-oxana-malaya_LatestNews24_143.aspx# (2002) Authors – Field notes Year of document –Tuesday October 31, 2006