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INDog fans! BIG news!!  Seven years after we first made it, our I NDog Project website has been recreated from scratch, and most importantly has been made mobile-friendly. Oh good, it's mobile-friendly now! My colleagues Javed Ahmed of the INDog Project, and Dr Krishna Mohan, put in months of hard work and late nights to make it happen. I can never thank them enough! Lots of new content, and many many links to books and scientific papers, for those who want to read more. (We recommend reading all of them). You can also download the classic reference book 'The Indian Dog' by W V Soman, from our 'Read more' section. A very important part of the site is still under construction, so keep watching this space. It's our updated 'Map of Aboriginal and Primitive Dogs Around the World' and it's going to be gorgeous! The next part of this post is addressed to that smaller but creepily persistent, unpleasant segment of readers who like to harvest other people...

It's the tenth birthday of this blog! And I'm celebrating it not with an INDog post, but with this photo- essay about another breed of landrace dog far, far away: the Greenland Dog! We met Greenland Dogs and other gorgeous 'Polar' dogs in Svalbard this summer when we finally went on an Arctic trip - something we've been wanting to do for years!  Before embarking on a seven day cruise-expedition to North Spitsbergen, we spent a couple of days in  Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of the Svalbard Archipelago.  At 78 degrees latitude this is the northernmost human settlement on the planet. It's actually a charming little town in an odd way, despite its somewhat bleak industrial appearance. For instance, you see signs like this: And sled dogs all over the place! Some have signs pasted on their kennels requesting people not to touch them (because a lot of people actually do silly things like trying to pet every dog they see). There are photos of some of these d...