First time hearing of a human raised by dogs

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I was raised by stray dogs since I was 3 — they taught me to bark and walk on all fours

She’s had a wild life — literally.

Barking, growling and walking on all fours wasn’t just a fun game of mimicking a beloved family pet for Oxana Malaya.

Instead, at age 3, adopting the savage traits of animals became a way of life for the feral Ukrainian girl who was raised by stray dogs after her alcoholic parents locked her outside in the cold.

“Mom had too many kids; we didn’t have enough beds,” Malaya, now 40, explained to “60 Minutes Australia” of her abusive upbringing. “So I crawled to the dog and started living with her.”

In an effort to survive, the toddler made a home for herself inside of pup Naida’s kennel. Within the confines of the cage, she dwelled alongside the critter for the next five years of her life.

Malaya was quickly embraced by the undomesticated animals in her poverty-stricken village of Nova Blahovishchenk a, Ukraine.

And as a welcomed member of the pack, the troubled tot abandoned her developing ability to speak for the woofs and snarls of her newfound fur family.

“I would talk to them, they would bark and I would repeat it,” said Malaya. “That was our way of communication.”