Oxana Malaya, lived with dogs for 6 years

Ukrainian Oxana Malaya was found living with dogs in a kennel in 1991. By the time she was eight, she had lived with them for six years. Oxana’s parents were alcoholics, and when she was a toddler, they left her outside. She crawled into the farm kennel seeking warmth and curled up with the dogs, an act that probably saved her life. She soon ran on all fours, panted with her tongue out, bared her teeth and barked. Because of her lack of human interaction, she only knew the words “yes” and “no.” Oxana now lives in a clinic in Odessa, working with the hospital’s farm animals.