India, July 3 -- An eight-year-old boy rescued from a drug den in Thailand was raised alongside six dogs and now communicates only through barking instead of words. According to a report in Thaiger, the severely neglected boy was often abandoned in the company of his family's six dogs by his drug-addicted mother and older brother.

He had not been to school in two years. With little human contact and no friends, the eight-year-old boy learned to communicate by barking.

The boy was rescued from squalid conditions in Thailand's Laplae district, Uttaradit province, on June 30. The rescue operation was initiated after a complaint by the school principal and local activists.

"He didn't speak, he just barked," said Pawina Hongsakul, President...