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When boy bites dog it is news
An 11-year-old boy in Bihar bites and kills dogs according to an unbelievable, but true, stomach-churning report.
An 11-year-old boy in Bihar bites and kills dogs according to an unbelievable, but true, stomach-churning report.
Mohammed Hashib, a resident of Nawada, too has been bitten by dogs. But nothing ever happens to him.
His parents - Mohammed Serajuddin, a local musician, and Noorjahan Khatoon - say Hashib spent most of his life with dogs - playing, sleeping and even eating in their company.
"In fact, some dogs die when Hashib bites them. Some lose their senses for four to five hours but survive," Serajuddin says.
His mother accepts that Hashib, who had started literally living with dogs since he was five, had never been vaccinated against rabies.
"We are poor people. We cannot afford rabies injections from time to time," she said, accepting that her son preferred to eat and drink with the local dogs like one among them.
He had even been fed milk by a bitch as a child, she said.
Since Hashib does not go to school, the dogs reportedly linger outside his house every morning waiting for him to come and play.
The dogs love him and start barking if he is delayed, Serajuddin says.
