The New Era Mowgli Girl!

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 14:41

Meet the modern day Mowgli girl who has been raised by dogs since birth and has even developed dog like traits. Natasha Mikhailova, A five-year-old girl has been nicknamed Mowgli, walks on all fours, laps up food and drink with her tongue and communicates by barking. It is believed that Natasha has never left the squalid, unheated three-room flat she lived in with her dad and grandparents.

For five years the girl was brought up by several dogs and cats and had never been out. A tip-off from concerned neighbours led to her rescue as she was found dressed in ripped and soiled clothes and surrounded by dogs and cats. For five years the girl was brought up by several dogs and cats and had never been out.

Surprisingly the neighbours didn"t even know that she had existed. They had seen the three vicious dogs that her parents took for the walk but never saw this child. The police who went to rescue her were almost knocked over by the stink in the flat.

Nicknamed Mowgli after the Jungle Book character raised by animals, Natasha now resides at a rehabilitation centre where specialists are shocked at the way she leaps at humans and plays dog games. The specialists have said that she is not mentally retarded, but is only starved of contact with humans – and shuns other children.

Natasha"s dad Victor Lozhkin, 27, and mum Yana Mikhailova, 25, who has had no contact with her for two years, have been arrested on suspicion of neglect and could face three years in jail.