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Grumps and Honey in the hills

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Indies love outdoors! Like most dogs, or perhaps even a little bit more! Check out these pictures of Grumps and Honey and their humans Vidya and Samik, on a recent Sunday trek with other dogs and their owners. The place was Camp Temgarh, about 50 km away from Pune where they live. (New to this blog? Read some earlier posts about these lovely INDog-mix girls:   Grumpy ,  Grumps and Honey   and Honey . ) 'The girls had a blast!' writes Vidya. 'They had such good fun. Grumps went around "protecting" her mum and dad from other over-enthusiastic canines who wanted to get a bit too friendly for comfort. Honey was a big surprise. This was her first big social event and she was so calm, poised and sweet. I didn't dare leave them off-leash, but after a while we did, and they kept following us around. Later we took a short trek to the nearby stream, where all the labradors jumped and swam, and got mucky and dirty, while the Indy girls sat at a distance and watched like ...

Foxy

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Foxy Junior is our first Indy princess of 2016!  Manav Pandey wrote in about this dainty, elegant INDog-mix: 'On a rainy evening in the suburbs of Mumbai, I met a pregnant Indy with the largest ears you could find for her size. I named her Foxy.  In a matter of weeks Foxy had a litter of five beautiful, noisy puppies. Now in Mumbai I have been volunteering with a non-profit organization that helps street animals. They biannually organize an 'Adoptathon'. So when the pups were about three months old, I took them for the Adoptathon. After an exciting and amazing day, I had four puppies adopted. Just one remained with me and I was worried about having to leave her back on the streets. But she was a fighter. Along with her mother, she survived till the next Adoptathon. After an excruciating day, I was again about to take the pup back to the street, when an amazing lady, Mrs Bajaj, offered to take her to her farmhouse. She just needed me to get the pup spayed. But to my misfortu...