15 Children Who Were Raised by Wild Animals

5. The Boy and the Cats

Most people would proceed with caution upon coming in contact with a group of feral cats, but perhaps this next story will help them realize that even the most untamed felines have a heart of gold. In Argentina, a 1-year-old boy wandered away from his father and was adopted by a large pack of cats. A police officer later witnessed the boy eating scraps of food while the cats licked him clean. The officer stated: “I was walking and noticed a gang of cats sitting very close together. It is unusual to see so many like that so I went for a closer look and that’s where I saw him. The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him licking him because he was really dirty.”

If it weren’t for the cats huddling together to keep the baby warm, investigators believe he would’ve died in the freezing cold temperatures.