A dog in the Philippines wouldn’t stop barking at a man on a motorcycle. It was 11 AM the day before Christmas when the dog started chasing after him.
The man, Junrell Fuentes Revilla, pulled over in Magkagong, a mountain barangay in Sibong, Cebu. The dog led him to a grassy part of the local dumpsite.
Junrell couldn’t believe what he saw. There was a newborn baby boy wrapped in a brown towel, and part of his umbilical cord was still attached.
He picked the baby up and rushed to the nearest police station. The Women and Children Protection Desk said the baby was turned over to the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office.
Local news picked up the story. Animal groups began looking for the dog who helped save the baby. At first, it was believed the dog was a stray. Media reports and police had assumed he was because he stayed near the dumpsite.
Hope for Strays, an animal rescue group, went to find him. Their founder, Gea Ybarita, said they wanted to rescue and rehome the dog. A man at the site said he knew the dog. That man turned out to be Blacky’s actual owner.
He brought the group to his house, where they found Blacky living with nine other dogs. His name was Lyndon Olingay.
Lyndon told Gea: “No matter how hard life is, even though I’m poor, I feed all of my dogs and take care of them well.”
Hope for Strays helped deliver everything. People donated to Blacky, his siblings, and Lyndon’s family too.
Hope for Strays said they gave them “over $180 worth of groceries, two sacks of rice, more than $90 worth of pet supplies, and another $90 in cash.”
