dogs club

These are a few dogs Kiran Khalap photographed on a rushed three day visit to Cambodia in August.  If you haven't seen my earlier post on   Dogs of Cambodia , do have a look at it now.  It's from 2011. The pictures are village dogs clicked by Col. Gautam Das.  Kiran last visited Cambodia in 1998, with me, and he found Siem Reap greatly changed since then. We remember it as a rather sleepy little town. It's a busy city now. There are more free-ranging dogs now, and more mixed ones. On this trip he also visited a site about 70 km away from Siem Reap, up a hill. These beautiful aboriginal looking dogs were up there. The same dog from the top photo And these are the Siem Reap dogs, some attached to eateries.   Two have very heavy black shading, including the cute puppy. One has completely dropped ears. Kiran saw a few short-legged dogs too, the kind we remembered from our last trip. It would be fascinating to travel in the region and discover more about the village ...

Elegant graceful Honey lives with Grumps, Vidya and Samik in Pune.  She appeared once in this blog last year, but we've never shared the full story of her rescue and adoption.  Here it is at last, from Vidya: They say some things are destined to happen. I strongly believed that on that particular day, when my husband and I decided to take a walk to the nearest supermarket instead of taking the car to bring groceries home. What was supposed to be another lazy sunday morning turned out to be quite something else for us. And yes, this is a long long story. Of hope, faith, belief, gratitude, trust and every other virtue any animal can teach us humans. As we walked closer to the supermarket, we heard a dog howl. It was in pain and could barely roll over. It lay near the fence near the pavement (which was thankfully wide), right next to the road. My husband and I couldn't bear to listen to this.  It was as if this poor dog was shouting and crying out to each and every passerby...