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Look at this beautiful INDog! So elegant, and I love tricolours! She was born in Chaudi in South Goa, very near Palolem. She was adopted as a pup by Hillevi  Sjödén  and lives with her in Norway. 'Ester was found abandoned as a puppy in Chaudi,' writes Hillevi. 'When we found her she was o nly about three or four weeks old according to the vet.' She was a very brave and curious puppy! 'I took care of her during my four-month long stay, found a family to take care of her for a couple of months while I had to return to Norway to earn money, so I could go back and take her home with me. She has now been here in Norway for almost two years, and she is the sweetest, funniest dog ever! Adopting her was the best decision I've ever made. She brings so much joy into my life.' People often tell me she is so beautiful, and ask what kind of breed she is... I started to google around about Indian breeds and found pariah dogs, which I think looked a lot like my Ester! Not...

Say hello to Kuttush, an adorable INDog-mix with the cutest batwing ears!  Kuttush lives in Bhopal with Meghna Ghatak. She sent in a heartfelt story about her love of dogs and life with her puppy.  Some excerpts: 'As a kid, the best thing about getting to school was my routine encounter with the love and friendship of numerous street dogs. I wouldn't take vans or buses made available to me but instead chose to walk in the trail of street dogs. Everyone had declared me pariah along with the dogs I associated with. Little did people know then that dogs, be it street or 'pedigree', were the best remedy for the scars left behind by bullies. Imagine life with and without colours, imagine seasons without the flood of emotions that they bring, imagine food sans its taste, and imagine camaraderie without the love and loyalty of a dog. Much has been written about dogs and the way they bandage broken pieces of our heart or the way they stitch our days with more affection and mis...

Anyone here who has followed this blog from the start? If you have, you'll remember beautiful Katie who was adopted in Kodaikanal.  If you are new to this blog, read Katie's  first post   from   eight years ago; and her eleventh birthday post . This lovely INDog-mix turned fifteen this week!  Her human Yvonne Koch sent an update: 'She is still getting along well...a little slower now, and a little hard of hearing, but no health issues whatsoever! What a remarkable breed!  'Currently Katie is sharing her home with two retired racing greyhounds that keep her entertained.' Here's are photos of Katie and her two housemates, Roadrunner and Wiley. Many hugs to this gorgeous lucky girl on her fifteenth birthday! Katie Roadrunner Wiley Photos: Yvonne Koch North Carolina USA Please do not use images or content from this site without permission and acknowledgment

18 months ago I wondered what cute little mountain pup Shadow would look like, as an adult.  And now I know! He's gorgeous! Others think so too - he won a prize at a dog show recently! How lovely to see his breed described as Indy! Here are some photos sent in by his proud owner Kunga.  Congratulations, Shadow and Kunga - and thanks for being such wonderful ambassadors for INDogs and INDog-mixes! Handsome Shadow Puppy days. More photos here . Shadow's prize!!   Photos: Kunga Monlam Shimla Himachal Pradesh Please do not use images or content from this site without permission and acknowledgment

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 ...

'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...

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 ...