Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 22:48 Written by <a href='/index.php?option=com_community&view=profile&userid=63&Itemid=123'>dennis-cummins</a> Monday, 07 December 2009 10:53
During this miracle season of Christmas I felt compelled to share with you an amazing story so amazing that it will make your heart leap with appreciation of what we have. In our modern day society could it be possible for a child to be abandoned by his parents and to be left with dogs to raise him? Yes, unbelievably so. A wild boy who appears to have been raised by a dog since he was 18 months old has been discovered living in a remote part of Siberia four years after he was abandoned by his parents. Andrei Tolstyk – known as Vita, now seven, was found by social workers who wondered why the boy had not enrolled at his local school in the beautiful Siberian region of Altai. After being deprived of human contact for so long, Andrei was unable to talk and had picked up many dog-like traits including biting people, walking on all fours, and eating and barking like a dog. But Vita, a sweet-faced blond boy, didn't know he wasn't a dog. How he was found and rescued is nothing short of a miracle.
This seems like something right out of the Jungle Book, since he spent almost 7 years - some of the most important developmental years of his life in the company of dogs. It was like no one even new he existed. His mother left home when he was just three months old, entrusting Andrei's care to his alcoholic, deadbeat father who also abandoned the his son soon afterwards. Living on what ever food that could be found, covered in feces and unclothed and the only bath he had was from the tongues of his canine companions. This child is a miracle to have survived.
Known as the "dog boy" by some in the Russian media, he has now been moved to a Christian orphanage. The Christian orphanage experienced many struggles. He had never used his hands to eat, words to communicate, used a toilet or slept in a bed. Unable to sit up for more than five minutes, Vita would just lay down in the middle of the floor and mumble to himself. Instead of walking, he would crawl around on all fours. But now they are making great strides with a child that seemed so hopeless. Though Vita fought against so much, he also found small things that held his interest. He would always comment about the light being on. It fascinated him to no end. He still talks about lights being on or off more than anything else. "He said that the light in his house never lit up. It made me understand more what it must have been like for this child, this toddler, alone in the dark," Lilit recalls. "He asked where the spiders were and said we should decorate the apartment with them."
God now being the central inspiration. Now after two years he is growing, at school and in a walk with Jesus, the couple say. "Vita loves spending time in prayer," they say. "Each morning and evening when we all join together in prayer, Vita prays for a long time—calling on God to bless everyone he can think of! "He prays: 'God bless Griesha. Hallelujah. God bless Irina. Hallelujah. God bless Diliah. Hallelujah." And his prayer goes on and on. What a powerful little prayer warrior!"
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