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The latest update on beautiful Goa Indy Sophie, sent in by her proud owner!  If you are new to this blog, you can read her earlier posts  here and  here . This month on 7 September Sophie turned three, and believe me – she just gets smarter and cuter all the time! She loves her morning walks, and in addition to walking up the beautiful Goan hills and smelling the flowers, she also enjoys meeting and playing with all her friends. She is terribly energetic and that keeps her totally slim and fit. Even her vet asks how does she manage to maintain her shape? Normally neutered dogs will put on a lot of weight - but not our Sophie! Always working it off. Walking running and jumping around in the hills. She’s a lovely friendly dog, with a beautiful temperament, and is friends with all the dogs in the colony. The dogs that live with their humans and the ownerless ones too. Okay she’s smart and intelligent and initially tends to be the top-dog when she meets a new doggy – but aft...

Get ready for some of the cutest puppy photos in this blog! The competition is VERY stiff, as you'll know if you've been following all our other INpuppies! Horace is a Mumbai-born INDog-mix, living with Scott Berry and his family in Olympia WA in the US.  'He was rescued from a near-death bus collision at two weeks,' writes Scott. 'Our niece was in India and saw him about to be hit. She saved him, raised him there for a few months, and flew him back to the US. We took him in when he was about four months.' Here's his puppy album with photos of him in India and in the US. There are lots of adorable photos of him, so more of his adult pictures will follow in a second post. He's so cute, it was tough to choose just a few!     Photos: Scott Berry and family Olympia WA USA Please do not use images or content from this site without permission and acknowledgment

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 ...