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Diya

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This is Diya, an elegant INDog from Delhi, now living in Minnesota with Michelle Orcutt.  Isn't she superb?                                                                                                                                                Michelle's description of her is very interesting, especially the results of her DNA test, which show some Eurobreed admixture (like most urban free-roamers). * 'I recently adopted this INDog-mix from Gurgaon through the International Street Dog Foundation. She turns a year old on May 15 (or thereabouts).  Her history is, she was found as a solitary, approximately six week old ...

SniffWorld

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'Our own weak olfactory sense has, no doubt, limited our curiosity about what the world smells like. A growing coalition of scientists is working to change that, and what they have found about olfactory animals, dogs included, is enough to make us envy those nose-creatures. As we see the world, the dog smells it. The dog's universe is a stratum of complex odors. The world of scents is at least as rich as the world of sight.' - Alexandra Horowitz,   Inside of a Dog. Which is why the K Gang are allowed to spend as much time as they like sniffing, on every outing. With only very reasonable restrictions on what they sniff. Trash of any kind is a strict no-no.  A word of caution: was your Indy ever a free-roaming dog? Because free-roamers almost always have the scavenging habit, and they don't give it up no matter how much gourmet food you may give them at home.  Under the guise of just following scents, Kimaya sometimes tries to snatch up a piece of bone or rotten fish dr...