Background
Ivan Mishukov was born in Reutov in 1992. When he was four, he left his home to escape his mother and her abusive alcoholic boyfriend.
Ivan Mishukov was born in Reutov in 1992. When he was four, he left his home to escape his mother and her abusive alcoholic boyfriend.
Ivan gained the dogs" trust by providing them with food, and in return, he was protected by the pack. Eventually, he was made pack-leader. Mishukov was rescued by Moscow police in 1998, when he was six.
The police separated the boy from the dogs by leaving bait for the pack in a restaurant kitchen.
Because he had lived among the dogs for only two years, he re-learned language. He speaks very fluently and intelligently, he gave interviews on Russian and Ukrainian National television He studied in military school and served in the Russian Army.
lieutenant was the story of Ivan that caught the attention of Australian writer Eva Hornung whose novel Dog Boy (2009) has many of the same elements of Ivan"s story, including capture by leaving bait at a restaurant.
Prior to capture, he had escaped the police three times, defended by the pack.
